Ono Machiko

Ono Machiko is an actor born in a rural area of Nara Prefecture, Japan. Ono was first spotted by the film director Naomi Kawase cleaning out the shoeboxes at her junior high school and cast in the lead role in the film "Suzaku" (萌の朱雀). She won Best Actress at the Singapore Film Festival for…

Takeuchi Ryoma

Takeuchi Ryoma is a Japanese actor and model, who portrays the main protagonist of Kamen Rider Drive, Shinnosuke Tomari. Ryoma started playing soccer when he was 5, and during high school he played with Tokyo Verdy, but after receiving a recommendation to continue playing in university he thought he…

Triendl Reina

Reina Triendl is a fashion model and actor born in Vienna, Austria to a German father and a Japanese mother. Reina was scouted and began working as a model for Platinum Production in her second year of high school. She was an exclusive model for JJ and Vivi, and is currently exclusive to With. In 2011,…

Irie Jingi

Jingi Irie is a Japanese actor. He is represented with Ken-On. He graduated from Horikoshi High School. He is a member of Men On Style. In December 2007, when he was a second grade junior high school student, inspired by actors in the entertainment industry in his generation such as Ryunosuke Kamiki…

Nagasawa Masami

Nagasawa Masami is a Japanese actress born in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from Horikoshi High School. She is the daughter of Nagasawa Kazuaki, the former manager of the J. League team Jubilo Iwata. In 2002, her appearance in the Nabisco CM earned her the title of "The Pretty Girl…

Hirosue Ryoko

Hirosue Ryoko is a Japanese actress and singer under the agency FLaMme. She was born in Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. In 1994, during her second year of junior high school, she entered the 1st Clearasil "Shiny Face Contest", won the Grand Prix, and debuted in the same commercial in 1995. She…

Isomura Hayato

Isomura Hayato is a Japanese actor from Shizuoka Prefecture and is now represented by the talent agency BLUE LABEL. In high school, he joined a local theater company to learn acting, though his parents were highly opposed to this, saying acting would not get him anywhere and wanted him to go to college.…

Narimiya Hiroki

Narimiya Hiroshige, better known as Narimiya Hiroki, is a Japanese actor. He was born and raised in Tokyo. His parents divorced when he was young, and in his third year of junior high school, his mother died, and he raised his brother by dropping out of school, taking on part-time jobs, and paid for…

Seto Koji

Seto Koji is a Japanese actor and singer. He's a member of the acting troupe D-BOYS. His childhood dream of becoming a vet changed suddenly with the end of his Junior High School time when he watched the TV series Orange Days. The praised drama and performance by Tsumabuki Satoshi inspired his wish…

Takei Emi

Takei was born in Nagoya. Aspiring to become a model, she declared to her parents on her entry to junior high school that she would become a model within three years. In 2006, she entered the 11th Japan Bishōjo Contest and won in not only one but two categories: she received the Model Division Award…

Yataro Kasa

Yanko Yataro, who was born as a samurai but hated the samurai family and became a yakuza, hung up his sandals and went to Matsuida Yado Torataro in Matsuida-juku in Kisoji for a trip. That night, I went out to see…

Swords in the Moonlight 2

7.2

In the second episode of the trilogy, samurai Ryunosuke’s circumstances change: now blinded, he struggles to make a living as a mendicant flute-player. Otoyo, a woman whose husband was killed by Ryunosuke, works…

Oedo Gonin Otoko

7.2

During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo. Opposing them was Banzui-in Chobei,whose sole aim was to save Edo from the hatamoto…

Yume zo Mishi

In Jimpachi Kodera's household, young samurai Keishiro Kanie arrives, captivating Jimpachi's wife, Shoko, despite his initially arrogant demeanor. Keishiro introduces himself while Shoko is cleaning, and she recalls…

The Sea Is Watching

7.3

Oshin is a prostitute in 19th century Japan. When a young samurai named Fusanosuke arrives at Oshin's brothel having fled a drunken brawl in which he injured a man, the girl hides him from the authorities. Fusanosuke…

Shinsengumi PEACE MAKER

7.4

The story centers around a short 15-year-old boy named Ichimura Tetsunosuke who attempts to join the legendary samurai of Shinsengumi as part of his plan to avenge his murdered parents. However, he learns that he must…

Hotarugusa

7.9

Nana is a servant of the Kazahaya family, She is from a samurai family. Her father was about to reveal wrongdoings within the domain but had to commit ritual suicide for a crime he hadn't done. Ichinoshin tries to…

The Ghost Writer's Wife

8.1

Set in Meiji-era Matsue, Toki is a quirky girl from a once-proud samurai family now struggling with poverty after her father’s failed business. To make ends meet, she becomes a maid for a foreign English teacher…

Taboo

6.7

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around…

Blade of the Immortal

7.5

Rin vows revenge for her parents' murder and enlists the help of Manji who is known as the "immortal samurai." As he battles the gangster swordsmen of the Itto-ryu clan, Manji begins to sense something unusual about…