Frankie Sakai

Frankie Sakai was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician. From his days at Keio University, Sakai worked as a jazz drummer at American Army camps during the Occupation of Japan, often doing comic routines with his music. Becoming a professional comedian, he appeared in many famous film comedies, such…

Fukumoto Seizo

Seizo Fukumoto is a Japanese actor. Born February 3, 1943, he entered acting at age 15 in Kyoto, the capital of Japanese cinema. A specialist in film and television jidaigeki set in the Edo period, he most often plays a ronin, but in his hundreds of appearances he has taken nearly every role. His forte…

Hino Shohei

Hino Shohei is a Japanese actor and singer born in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. He belongs to Seeds Management. He belongs to "Gekidan Komadori" from the age of 12. He debuted in 1962 on Fuji TV's "Shonen Tanteidan." In 1974, he made his movie appearance in "Ore no Chi was Tanin no Chi." Since 2011, he has been…

Ichimura Masachika

He is an actor,a "seiyū" and musical singer. He was born in Kawagoe, Saitama. He married singer and actress Ryoko Shinohara on December 8, 2005, who is 24 years his junior. She gave birth to a boy on May 10, 2008, just one day before Mother's Day of that year. Their second child was born in February…

Fuchikami Yasushi

Yasushi Fuchikami is an actor, known for Hirugao: Heijitsu gogo 3 ji no koibitotachi (2014), The Outsider (2018) and Bokudake ga inai machi (2016).

Ban Yutaro

Ban Yutaro is a Japanese actor who debuted in 1964 with the movie "Game is Night". He disappeared from the television world at the end of the 1990s, but in 2020, an interview article was published in the magazine "Showa no Mystery 101 2020 Summer Men's Festival", where he talks about memories of the…

Hashizume Isao

Hashizume Isao is a Japanese actor born in Higashisumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He is the representative of the theater group Yen and belongs to Yen Planning. In 1975, he participated in the founding of the theater group Yen with Akutagawa, Nakaya Noboru, Kishida Kyoko, and Arikawa Hiroshi.…

Horibe Keisuke

Keisuke Horibe was born in 1966. He is a Japanese actor and writer, known for Akumu no erebêtâ (2009), Love Exposure (2008) and Tokyo Gore Police (2008).

Takashima Masahiro

Takashima Masahiro is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He comes from a family of actors, including his father (Tadao Takashima), mother (Hanayo Sumi) and younger brother Masanobu Takashima. He married the stage actress Sylvia Grab in 2005. Takashima debuted in the 1987 film "Totto Channel". His…

Hamura Shoko

Hamura Shoko is a joint pseudonym that was credited as the original author and scriptwriter of the TBS Monday 8 o'clock historical drama series such as "Mito Komon", "Ooka Echizen", and "Edo wo Kiru". In addition to the use of this pseudonym in drama novelizations, she has also been credited under the…

June 6th

It depicts events that occur on the same date at various points in time and space, from a thoroughfare in the Edo Period to outer space in the near future. (Source: JFDb)

Byakkotai: Yabure Zarushatachi

4.6

Daimyo of Aizu Katamori Matsudaira is appointed to the unfamiliar position of Kyoto Military Commissioner and then goes through the Boshin War. "Byakotai" depicts seven years, from 1862 when the tragedy begins to 1868.…

Yoidore Kotoji

7.9

Akame Kotoji became a wandering samurai in order to avenge his lord and the uproar over the stolen lances, settles down at a tenement house in Edo that Kujiya Shouemon owns with the intention of spending the rest of…

Yoshiwara ura Doushin

7.3

Kamimori Mikijiro is a junior samurai and is absconded by two people. After escaping his pursuers he wanders around the northern provinces for three years. He ends up in Edo's red-light district Yoshiwara. There are…

Ooka Echizen Season 2

6.1

The reign of the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune was notable for the “Ooka Sabaki” which supported the Kyoho Reforms advanced by Yoshimune. Ooka Echizen, an Edo magistrate, punished evil that brought suffering…

Ooka Echizen Season 3

8.0

The reign of the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune was notable for the “Ooka Sabaki” which supported the Kyoho Reforms advanced by Yoshimune. Ooka Echizen, an Edo magistrate, punished evil that brought suffering…

Mattsugu

The story revolves around three young men, who grew up in the same neighborhood of Kamakuragashi near the Edo Castle, and a girl, idolized by the threesome. Together, they gradually mature into adults through their…

Kurama Tengu

8.0

A story about a masked samurai who takes sides with the good and wipes out the evil. In the late Edo period in Kyoto, samurais are killing each other because of the differences in their beliefs in the Tokugawa shogunate,…

Denshichi Torimonochou

8.0

Denshichi of Kuromoncho is a subordinate of a police constable. He punishes widespread evil in the backstreets of Edo with a purple truncheon entrusted to him by the inspector Toyama Saemon, who is the magistrate of…