Agawa Sawako

Sawako Agawa is a Japanese author and television personality. Sawako Agawa was born in Tokyo on 1 November 1953. Her father is the novelist Hiroyuki Agawa; and her elder brother Naoyuki Agawa is also a writer. Naoyuki is a former diplomat who, since 1999, has been a professor of law at Keio University.…

Takahashi Kaito

Takahashi Kaito is a Japanese actor, singer and member of the idol group King & Prince. Kaito started learning to dance when he was in nursery school. In 2008, he formed a dance group and participated in contests. He later left the dance group and studied dancing under dancer NOPPO (s**t kingz) during…

Mizuno Miki

Mizuno Miki is a Japanese actress born in Mie prefecture. She belongs to Office More. She graduated from Hide Girls' Academy High School and dropped out of the Department of English Literature, Faculty of Letters, Meiji Gakuin University. In 1987, when she was in the first year of junior high school,…

Kitadai Takashi

Kitadai Takashi, born in Osaka Prefecture, is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Osaka Prefectural Mishima High School and Nihon University College of Art Department of Drama. He debuted in 2008. (Source: Wikipedia)

Sawamura Ikki

Sawamura Ikki is a Japanese model, actor, and singer who was born in Kagoshima. After graduating high school he started in the industry as a fashion model and then later made his acting debut in 1996. He sang the ending theme song for the drama Hataraki Man.

Kuriyama Chiaki

Kuriyama Chiaki is a Japanese actress, talent, model, and singer from Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki Prefecture. She graduated from Japan High School of Music. Her agency was Space Craft until 2020 when she became a freelancer. She has worked as a fashion model for teen magazines such as "Pichi Lemon" and…

Akiyama Ryuji

Ryuji Akiyama is a Japanese comedian and actor. He is a member of the comedy trio Robert (ロバート) along with Hiroshi Yamamoto and Hiroyuki Baba. In 2005 the three of them appeared together as students in Cromartie High: The Movie. He was a classmate of fellow Robert member Hiroyuki Baba from kindergarten…

Ike Reiko

Ike's career was launched with the fourth entry in Toei's Hot Springs Geisha series, Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (1971). A media frenzy erupted following the release of this film when Ike claimed to have lied about her age to gain a part in the movie. Claiming to have in fact been sixteen years of age…

Toda Erika

Toda Erika is a Japanese actress born in Nada-Ku, Kobe City, Hyogo prefecture. Toda began her performing arts activities in the fifth grade of elementary school and debuted as a gravure model by the age of 13. She moved to Tokyo after graduating from junior high school and started her acting career…

Okada Masaki

Okada Masaki, born in Edogawa-Ku, Tokyo, is a Japanese actor managed by Stardust Promotion. Okada was scouted in Harajuku when he was in the second year of junior high school. Initially, he refused the offer as he was absorbed in the activities of the basketball club. After entering high school he contacted…

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…

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…

Onimasa

7.6

Matsue is the adoptive daughter of the Kiryuin House, a small yakuza clan in Shikoku. Onimasa, their leader, is the last heir to a family of samurai. He is hard in business but respected by the poor because of his…

Sego-don

8.0

Segodon follows the life of the historical figure Takamori Saigo. He was born the first son of a lower-class samurai. He was exiled two times and went through three marriages. Takamori Saigo was one of the central…

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…

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…

Sukiyaki Western Django

6.9

Inspired by the historical rivalry between the Genji and Heike clans, which ushered in the era of samurai dominance in Japanese history, Sukiyaki Western Django is set "a few hundred years after the Genpei War". The…