Tani Akira

Fukuda Jun

Born in Changchun, Jilin Province, China (currently Changchun City). He spent his childhood in Manchuria because his father worked for the South Manchuria Railway. Although he went on to Nihon University, he rarely attended lectures and spent most of the day reading and watching movies. In 1946, Toho…

Okada Mariko

Okada Mariko is a Japanese actress. She was married to film director Yoshida Yoshishige, until his death in 2022. Her father was the noted silent film actor Okada Tokihiko, who before his early death (the year following his daughter's birth) starred in Ozu Yasujiro's Tokyo Chorus (1931). As an adult,…

Sono Makoto

Sono Makoto is a Japanese actor.

Dan Ikuma

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Music School in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi…

Tsutsumi Yasuhisa

Tamiya Jiro

Tamiya Jiro was born on August 25, 1935 in Kyoto City, Japan as Shibata Goro. He was an actor and producer, known for Miyamoto Musashi (1973), 3000 kiro no wana (1971) and Showdown at Night's End (1964). He was married to Fuji Yukiko. He died on December 29, 1978 in Tokyo, Japan.

Oka Satomi

Oka Satomi is a Japanese actress. She has made over 150 films in her career, including such classics as Miyamoto Musashi and Ako Roshi. While attending Amagasaki High School in Amagasaki, Japan, she was selected as Miss Cinderella in 1953 for a “Japan Cinderella Princess Contest” held by RKO Radio…

Kusabue Mitsuko

Mitsukô Kusabue was born on October 22, 1933 in Yokohama, Japan. She is an actress, known for The Lost World of Sinbad (1963), Miyamoto Musashi (1984) and Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki (1964).

Yorozuya Kinnosuke

Yorozuya Kinnosuke was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born Ogawa Kinichi, son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizo III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name Yorozuya as his surname in 1971. In addition to his kabuki activity,…

Sasaki Kojiro

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi. (Source: MUBI)

Yagyuu Renyasai: Hiden Tsukikagesho

6.7

Increased competition between two samurai brothers, threatening to tear their clan apart, eventually leads them to a duel to death in the early Edo Period. One of them is trained in the famous Yagyu Shinkage Ryu, while…

Tokugawa Kengouden: Sorekara no Musashi

8.5

The story of Musashi Miyamoto is one of the most famous and often filmed sagas in Japanese film and television history. Almost every production is based upon Eiji Yoshikawa's monumental MUSASHI novel and starts with…

Musashi

7.3

Movie follows the life and battles of legendary swordsmen Musashi Miyamoto and Kojiro Sasaki. (Source: AsianWiki)

Conclusion of Kojiro Sasaki: Duel on Ganryu Island

4.0

Master swordsman Kojiro Sasaki is not content with the knowledge of his own power and constantly seeks to impress it upon others. Another great samurai swordsman, Musashi Miyamoto, has great respect for Sasaki’s…

Shonen Miamoto Musashi Yori: Haresugata Chigo no Kenpo

Miyamoto Kara Kimi e

7.5

The story follows a newbie salaryman named Miyamoto, who works at a stationary company and pushes forward despite his frustration with his own insignificance. (Source: ANN) ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Miyamoto…

Miyamoto kara Kimi e

6.9

The story follows a newbie salaryman named Miyamoto, who works at a stationary company and pushes forward despite his frustration with his own insignificance.

Devoted Husband Miyamoto

7.6

Yohei is a middle school teacher married to Miyoko. For the first time in 25 years, they begin to live by themselves after their son marries and moves out. One day, Yohei finds divorce papers which Miyoko keeps hidden,…

Stepmom and Daughter Blues

8.2

Miyamoto Ryoichi, a father to an 8-year-old daughter, proposes to and marries Akiko Iwaki, a career-minded 32-year-old woman. What happens when a career-oriented woman who has never raised a child before now has to…