Yamaguchi Takehisa

Yamaguchi Tomoyuki, better known under his stage name Yamaguchi Takehisa, and also known as Yamaguchi Akira and Yamaguchi Satoru, was a Japanese actor. While still in high school, he passed an audition for Shintoho and made his debut as an actor in the 1960s. He passed away from liver cancer on April…

Tokoshima Yoshiko

Tokoshima Yoshiko is a Japanese actress represented by Horipro Inc. She attended Seika Girls High School and began training, working, and performing as a ballerina before transitioning to acting in the early 1990s. She made her actin debut in 1991 with the drama "Vingt Cinq Ans Marriage”. She has…

Nanjo Reiko

Nanjo Reiko is a former actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She developed an interest in track and field during middle school and joined the track team at Bunkyo High School, specializing in long jump and high jump. She set a high jump record of 1.55 meters. In 1979, while studying English literature at Seisen…

Goda Hozumi

Goda Hozumi is a Japanese voice actor, actor, sound director, and YouTuber born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan. He graduated from Odawara High School and the Department of Arts and Literature at Tamagawa University with a major in Theater Studies. In 1981, inspired by watching…

Reizei Kimihiro

Reizei Kimihiro was a Japanese actor and director from Tokyo. He belonged to FMG. He was the 4th chairman of the "Let's Win the University of Tokyo" (2006-2015). After graduating from The 5th Commercial High School in Tokyo, he joined the theater company Bungakuza after working at the Bungakuza Theater…

Shiozawa Toki

Shiozawa Toki, born Shiozawa Toyoji (塩沢登代路) in Nakasato, Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actress. She graduated from Jissen Women's High School (実践女子高等学校) and was affiliated with Toho Entertainment (東宝芸能) until her death. In 1947, Shiozawa advanced to the second…

Miura Mayumi

Miura Mayumi is a Japanese actress from Iwaizumi, Shimohei, Iwate, Japan. She graduated from Teisei Gakuen High School (貞静学園高等学校). After briefly working as an office lady at a securities company following high school, she joined the Bungakuza Training Institute (文学座付属研究所)…

Uchida Sayuri

Uchida Sayuri, born Tachibana Sayuri (橘さゆり) in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, is a former Japanese actress and child actress. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Yoyogi High School (東京都立代々木高等学校). She was affiliated with Gekidan Tohai (劇団東俳), Horipro (ホリプロ),…

Horikita Maki

Horikita Maki is a former Japanese actress. She debuted in 2003 and has starred in numerous Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies. Horikita's popular roles include the introverted high school student Nobuko Kotani in Nobuta wo Produce, the righteous law student…

Yamazaki Kento

Yamazaki Kento is a Japanese actor and model. He debuted in the year 2010 and is under the Japanese talent agency Stardust Promotion. His first modeling offer came during his third year of junior high school when he was scouted by his current agency at Takeshita Dori (Harajuku) whilst on his way home…

Ooedo Shichihenge

Wrongfully accused of arson and embezzlement by the corrupt samurai Hazama Shusuke, the miner Hanjiro escapes custody to prove his innocence. His sister, Kikuno, is driven mad after being attacked by Hazama’s men…

Satan's Sword I: The Great Buddha's Passage

7.6

First part of the trilogy about Tsukue Ryunosuke - the ruthless samurai. Directed by the legend of chanbara, Misumi Kenji. ~~ Adapted from the novel "大菩薩峠" by Nakazato Kaizan (中里介山).

Byakkotai

The Byakkotai was a group of around 305 young teenage samurai of the Aizu Domain, who fought in the Boshin War.

Satan's Sword II: The Dragon God

7.3

Second part of the trilogy about Tsukue Ryunosuke - a ruthless samurai. Directed by the legend of chanbara, Misumi Kenji. ~~ Adapted from the novel "大菩薩峠" by Nakazato Kaizan (中里介山).

Kozure Shinbee 2

7.4

Matsumura Shinbei, an alcohol-loving and skilled wandering samurai, struggles to bring up his adopted baby Tsurunosuke as he runs about solving problems within the city.

Kibakichi 2

5.6

In this sequel to Kibakichi, our titular werewolf samurai hero helps a blind girl along his travels as her village plans to hunt down a murderer. Meanwhile, someone from Kibakichi’s past plans revenge.

The 8-Tomb Village

6.8

400 hundred years ago the inhabitants of the village of Yatsuhaka murdered 8 samurai rebels, whom they were actually helping to hide away, afraid of what the Shogunate would do to them. Before dying one the samurai…

Satomi Hakkenden

7.3

The tragic romance of a princess and the adventure of eight heroic samurai. (Source: DramaWiki) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Nansou Satomi Hakkenden" (南総里見八犬伝) by Takizawa Bakin (曲亭馬琴).

Shura

7.5

The main character Gengobe, an exile masterless samurai (Ronin), is facing a moral dilemma: either help a courtesan he loves or join his clan in a campaign of honor. When the geisha and her husband rob him of his reinstatement…

The Hidden Blade

7.5

Munezo Katagiri, a low-ranking samurai, is torn between his love for the maid Kie and his duty to the samurai code. Tasked with mastering western military strategies, Munezo is ordered to kill his former friend Yaichiro,…