Arikawa Hiroshi

Arikawa Hiroshi was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Kagoshima, affiliated with Engekishuden En. Formerly affiliated with Gekidan Haiyuza, Arikawa enrolled in Gekidan Kumo in 1965. It was not until 1975 that Arikawa would enroll in Engekishuden En. On October 16, 2011, he died of acute respiratory…

Hayashi Yasufumi

Hayashi Yasufumi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan.

Katagiri Ryuji

Katagiri Ryuji is a Japanese actor from Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan. He belongs to Toei Management (former Toei Actor Center). After working at Osaka Gas , he joined Toei company in 1969 as a 13th gen member of Toei New Face., and in 1971, he made his full-scale debut in the movie " Queen Bee Strikes…

Bando Tsumasaburo

Bando Tsumasaburo was a Japanese Kabuki actor and movie actor born in Hashimoto-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His brother, sister, and mother died one after another, and his father failed in business and went bankrupt. In 1916 he graduated from Jinjo Elementary School High School. In 1920, when the Shochiku…

Katou Ryousuke

Edo Yamaguchi

Edo Yamaguchi is a Japanese actor.

Sawamura Gennosuke IV

Sawamura Gennosuke IV was an outstanding onnagata actor, who was also able to play a wide range of male roles. Akuba roles were his field of excellence, like Otomi ("Kirare Otomi") or Dakki no Ohyaku ("Hyaku Monogatari"). He moved at the beginning of the 20th century from ôshibai, where he was supporting…

Onoe Matsunosuke

Onoe Matsunosuke was a Japanese actor. He was initially an actor with an itinerant kabuki troupe. In his autobiography, he claimed that he had made his stage debut as early as 1880, in a performance given by the Tamizo Onoe company. Fascinated by the stage, he left his home by the age of 14 to travel…

Ichikawa Somegoro VIII

He was born into a family of hereditary Kabuki actors known since the Edo period. He is the eldest son of famous kabuki actor Matsumoto Koshiro X (Ichikawa Somegoro VII at the time), his grandfather is Matsumoto Koshiro IX. In June 2007, he made his debut performance at the Kabukiza Theatre in the play…

Sugita Shigemichi

Sugita Shigemichi is a Japanese director and film director. He has served as an Executive Director at Fuji Television and as the President of Nihon Eiga Broadcasting. He was also the President of the Japan Association of TV Program Directors from 2003 to 2015. He was born as the youngest of three siblings…

Samurai Momotaro: Devil of The Seas

The second part of "Samurai Momotaro". The stage moves from Edo to Sanuki. Momotaro devises a strategy for the Hankuro gang at the inn in Hamamatsu. Momotaro slipped his foot and fell down a cliff with one of his enemies,…

Ronin Gai

An ensemble of colorful characters and social outcasts patronize a restaurant and bar on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. One disgraced and disillusioned…

Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo. With the capital on edge, master crimefighter Kondo Umon is brought…

A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji

7.2

A young samurai, Sawaka Kojuro, travels on the Tokaido to Edo with his two servants, Genta and Gonpachi. Gonpachi has been told by Shojuro's mother to prevent his Master from drinking... The road is not safe. On the…

Ichigeki

7.2

The drama depicts the exploits of the “Ichigeki Hishikkitai”, a special combat unit formed by farmers to deal with the "Imperial Robbers" and the "Imperial Thieves" of the Satsuma Clan, who were causing a stir…

Ooku 2003

7.3

"Ooku" is the story of the picturesque lives of the women living in the hidden, maze-like inner structure of Edo Castle. Inside, the women wielded their beauty and knowledge: some of them to win the Shogun's love,…

Furueru Iwa: Reigen Ohatsu Torimono Hikae

7.4

Ohatsu, who has awakened to her miraculous powers, and her partner, the apprentice police officer Ukyonosuke, encounter a strange incident that occurs in the town of Edo! Eventually, they come across the sad truth…

Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer

7.6

Based on the life of Shunkai Shibukawa (December 27, 1639-November 1, 1715), appointed as the first official astronomer in the Edo Period and would go on to create the Jokyo calendar at the imperial request.

Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born!

7.5

The movie takes place between episodes 27 and 28 of the series, featuring the DenLiner and its passengers travelling as far back as the Edo period of Japan. Ryotaro pursues the Molech Imagin to May 8, 2000. Though…

Jin

8.3

Minakata Jin, a brain surgeon, has been tormented for two years after his fiancée falls into a vegetative state following an operation he performed. One day, he faints at the hospital and wakes up in the Edo period.…