Yamauchi Masato

He graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Law in 1950. In 1949 he joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting System troupe along with Ryo Kurosawa and Kiyoshi Kawakubo. Debuted as Kirino Kojiro in the radio drama " Fuebuki Doji " . After that, he acted as a voice actor, and after the overseas drama " Captain…

Kodo Kuninori

Kodo Kuninori was a Japanese actor born in Takasago City, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Tanigawa Saichiro. Before the war, he was active in Teikoku Kinema and Utaemon Ichikawa productions and appeared in Toho during and after the war. In 1901, after dropping out of the junior high school of Kansai…

Ima Harube

Ima Harube, born Takasaki Eiichi (高崎英雄) in Kiyase, Kurate, Fukuoka, Japan, was a Japanese writer and playwright. He also used the pen name Ima Uhei (伊馬鵜平) earlier in his career. Born into a merchant family with roots dating back to the Edo period, Ima graduated from the former Kurate…

Miyazono Junko

Junko Miyazono was born on May 30, 1943 in Tokyo, Japan as Junko Miyano. She is an actress, known for Furyô banchô: Inoshika Ochô (1969), Yôen dokufu-den: Han'nya no Ohyaku (1968) and Yôen dokufu-den: Okatsu kyôjô tabi (1969). (Source: IMBd)

Azuma Chizuru

Chizuru Azuma was born on June 5, 1960 in Onomichi, Japan. She is an actress, known for Shichinin no onna bengoshi (2006), Seito shokun! ( 2007) and Love's Water Drop (2018).

Suzuka Keiko

Suzuka Keiko was a Japanese actress. She starred in the 1976–1977 NHK daytime television series "Hi no Kuni ni" and has had multiple guest-star roles in prime-time jidaigeki such as "Mito Komon" and "Abarenbo Shogun". She has also appeared as a voice actor in a 1982 production of "Aladdin and the…

Hayashi Michiko

Michiko Hayashi was born on June 6, 1939 in Ehime, Japan. She is an actress, known for Kita no kuni kara (1981), Kita no kuni kara '84 natsu (1984) and Bokutô kitan (1960).

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo

Sakaguchi Yuzaburo was a Japanese actor born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. He graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Yame Technical High School. He grew up not knowing his father, was abandoned by his mother at the age of 4, and was raised by his grandfather. While in his second year at Fukuoka Prefectural…

Aratama Michiyo

Michiyo Aratama was a Japanese actress who appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Hiroshi Inagaki's Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki, Kihachi Okamoto's Samurai Assassin and Sword of Doom, and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan, Hymn to a Tired Man and The Human Condition trilogy.

Nakano Ryoko

Nakano Ryoko, born Kawasaki Ryoko (川崎良子), in Tokoname, Aichi, Japan, is a Japanese actress. She graduated from Aichi Prefectural Tokoname High School (愛知県立常滑高等学校) and initially joined an amateur theater troupe in Nagoya after graduation. Seeking to pursue acting professionally,…

Tangjin Okichi

US Consul General Harris and Secretary Henry Heusken were at Tamsenji Temple and were about to conclude a trade treaty with the Shogunate. In order to prevent the two from climbing up to Edo, the shogunate will take…

Satomi Hakkenden Part 3 Phantom Cat Ranbu

8.0

The third part of the movie adaptation of the feature-length novel by Takizawa Bakin, a literary master of the Edo period. It depicts Shino Inuzuka, Genpachi Inukai, Kobungo Inuta, and Sosuke Inuta, who are tied together…

Satomi Hakkenden Part 4 Clan Hachikenshi

7.0

The fourth part of the movie adaptation of the feature-length novel by Takizawa Bakin, a literary master of the Edo period. Shino Inuzuka, Genpachi Inukai, Sosuke Inukawa, Daisaku Inumura, and Dosetsu Inuyama rush…

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…

Lion Crest

A group of black hoods calling themselves the Golden Spider Party appeared near the border of Joshinetsu and attacked the Sado Kinzan Transport Corps heading for Edo. To investigate this case, the Shogun family appointed…

Swords in the Moonlight 3

7.2

In this final episode, Ryunosuke, a psychotic samurai, is in Kofu (west of the Japanese capital of Edo, as Tokyo was then known), where he is employed to test a new sword each evening by killing a passerby. But the…

Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane

Kaidan Kasane Ga Fuchi - An excellent example of traditional Japanese moral sentiment wrapped in a supernatural ghost tale, set in the mid-Edo Era (1773) in the small town of Hanyu in Shimosa Province. A blind masseur…

Before Dawn

4.0

Adapted from a novel of the same name written by Shimazaki Fujimura. 　Kisoji is all in the mountains. Shozo's son Azoyama Hanzo, who studied at Edo in the end of the Edo period, complains that the temple parasitizing…

Ryoma ga Yuku

This renzoku drama chronicles the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, a pre-revolutionary who helped shape the face of modern Japan. In order to study swordsmanship, Ryoma heads for Edo where he meets many people who influence…

Atsu Hime

7.7

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Atsuhime who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the…