Katsuji Ryo

Katsuji Ryo, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Horikoshi High School. He won the 29th Japan Academy Awards as Best Newcomer for Aegis (2006). He married actress Maeda Atsuko in July of 2018 after co-starring in the drama 'Dokonjo Gaeru' (2015) and movie 'Taberu Onna' (2018). They…

Mitsushima Shinnosuke

Shinnosuke Mitsushima is a Japanese actor. He is represented by Humanitè. After graduating from high school Mitsushima moved to Tokyo, where eventually got a job as a production director for the film Be Sure to Share. In 2010, he made his debut as a stage actor in Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre's production…

Natsuna

Watanabe Natsuna, born in Saitama Prefecture, is a Japanese actress managed by Toyota Office. She made her debut in the NTV school drama "Nobuta wo Produce". When she graduated from high school, she made the decision to focus her career entirely on acting. She formerly went by the name Natsuna Watanabe…

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…

Uchida Yuki

Uchida Yuki is a Japanese actress, and a popular 1990s Japanese idol, model and singer. She practiced fencing in high school and ranked 3rd in a tournament in Tokyo in 1991. She began her career as a model in commercials, notably for the confectionery company Lotte, then debuted in acting in 1992 in…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

At River's Edge

6.6

Set in the fictional Unasaka domain, the story involves a samurai who's obligated to follow an order that could destroy his relationship with his own younger sister.

Miyamatsu to Yamashita

7.2

Miyamatsu divides his modest life between jobs as a cable car operator and an extra in Japanese gangster and samurai films. With no family, friends, or memories of the past, he sleepwalks through life. Through a chance…

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…

Ninja in the Dragon's Den

7.2

In Japan of the Tokugawa Ieyasu period, a young ninja named Genbu wantonly kills samurai and other government officials; he leaves his clan to face the blame. When they hunt him down, Genbu and his wife Akane sail…

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

8.0

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…