Yamamura Ken

Ken Yamamura (born Kennosuke Yamamura) is a Japanese actor best known for playing the younger Ichiro Yasuda / Silver Samurai in the 2013 film, The Wolverine, and Takashi in the 2014 remake, Godzilla.

Akahori Masaaki

Masaaki Akahori is an actor and writer, known for Sono yoru no samurai (2012), Katsuragi jiken (2016) and Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi (2017).

Ketsaro Thanawut

Thanawut Ketsaro is an actor, known for "Yamada: The Samurai of Ayothaya" (2010) and "The Last Executioner" (2014).

Miyaguchi Seiji

Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman), Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. At the age of 71, he succumbed to lung cancer.

Natsui Runa

Natsui Runa is a Japanese actress and best known for playing the role of Shiba Kaoru in the TV show Samurai Sentai Shinkenger.

Matsuzawa Kazuyuki

Kazuyuki Matsuzawa is a Japanese actor. He played Toshizo Tanba in "Samurai Sentai Shinkenger", a role he would reprise 2 years later in "Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger".

Unagami Hideo

After dropping out of college in 1932, Unagami began a career as a theater actor, only for his career to be interrupted when he was drafted to serve in the military during World War II. After the war, Unagami became an actor for Shochiku and appeared in the 1946 film Comedy is Endless. He soon left…

Takagi Shinpei

Takagi joined the acting school at Nikkatsu in 1920 but made his mark first at Makino Film Productions as a samurai film action star known for his speed and ability to do stunts. He started his own company, Takagi Shinpei Productions, in 1927 and directed one of his own films. He later moved from one…

Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Chiaki Minoru

Chiaki Minoru was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress. In Seven Samurai, he was the good-natured samurai Heihachi, and he was the first of the samurai to be killed. In real life, he was the last of the seven actors to die. Chiaki was…

Zenin Seppuku

7.0

Completing Toshiaki Toyoda's politically urgent Resurrection Trilogy following Wolf's Calling (2019) and The Day of Destruction (2020), this electrifying short follows a man tasked with assisting in the ritual suicide…

Heaven and Earth

7.1

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry.…

Shinobi no Mono

7.1

Set during Japan's Sengoku period, this movie depicted Goemon Ishikawa, a famous outlaw hero who was boiled alive at the end of the 16th century by order of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, as a ninja who fought against samurai…

Nezumi, Edo wo Hashiru 2

7.3

It is the Bunka-Bunsei period. While the culture of the townspeople matures and flourishes, administration by the close advisers of the 11th Tokugawa shogun Ienari is rampant and characterized by a debasement of public…

Shinsengumi

7.4

As Japan nears the end of the nineteenth century and power shifts from the Shogunate to the Emperor, the Shinsengumi, a band of samurai, farmers, and peasants, rise to resist the tide of change. Led by Isami Kondo,…

Okiku and the World

7.4

Two rogue vagrants make their living as “manure men”, turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers. Enter Okiku, the only daughter of a fallen samurai, and amongst the overflowing…

Kill!

7.6

Comedy directed by Okamoto Kihachi. Storyline is based on the same novel as "Sanjuro" by Kurosawa Akira. In this chanbara (samurai theme film) piece we can find many cliches from earlier productions. Even if you're…

Sanada Ten Braves

7.0

Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of a ninja group who all serve under samurai warrior Yukimura Sanada.

Shogun's Ninja

6.6

Set in 17th-century Edo, an era of unprecedented peace under the rule of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, samurai govern the land. However, beneath this tranquility, a gripping tale of revenge and survival unfolds. Kagaribi…

Gin Nikan

7.6

Set in Tenma, Osaka. Matsukichi is the son of a samurai. His father is killed because of a grudge and Matsukichi is also in danger. At this time, Wasuke, the owner of the store Ikawa, saves Matsukichi's life. He then…