Tamba Yoshitaka

Yoshitaka Tamba (丹波 義隆 Tamba Yoshitaka?, born July 13, 1955) is a Japanese actor. He is the eldest son of actor Tetsurō Tamba. In 1973, while attending high school, he landed a part in the movie Sumi yuriko directed by Omori Kenziro. He also appeared in the movie Aoba shigeru reru around the…

Han Bunjaku

Han Bunjaku was a Japanese-speaking Taiwanese actress who lived and worked in Japan. She was mostly known as a character actress. She became famous playing an unfortunate half-Japanese, half African-American volleyball player called Jun Sanders in a 1969 volleyball drama called Sign wa V. In her later…

Nakaya Noboru

Nakatani Noboru, a Japanese actor born in Takanawa, Shiba, Tokyo, Japan, initially enrolled in Chuo University’s Faculty of Law but left to pursue a career in theater. He began his theatrical journey with Bungakuza Theatre Research Institute in 1950, becoming a full member in 1951. His film debut…

Mizuno Kumi

Japanese actress, most famous for appearing in several Toho Kaiju films of the 1960s and early 1970s. Her most famous roles include Miss Namikawa in Invasion of Astro-Monster, Dr. Sueko Togami in Frankenstein Conquers the World, and the island girl Dayo in Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. She is also known…

Tsuruta Mayu

Tsuruta Mayu, born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, is a Japanese actress. In 1996, she was nominated by the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Supporting Actress in the film Kike Wadatsumi no Koe Last Friends. Following the chaos of Kenya's 2007 presidential election, on March 30, 2008, she visited…

Ayumi

Lee Ayumi is a South Korean singer, dancer, actress, and former member of SUGAR (슈가). She was born in Tottori, Japan, the daughter of a second-generation Zainichi Korean man and a South Korean woman. They moved back to South Korea when she was 15 years old, and she graduated from Korea Kent Foreign…

Kataoka Ainosuke VI

The 6th generation Kataoka Ainosuke is Yamamoto Hiroyuki. Yamamoto Hiroyuki was born on March 4, 1972, in Jinnanbe-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka. His parents ran a manufacturing business in Sakai, Osaka and did not have any association with the world of Kabuki. At the age of 5, Hiroyuki passed the…

Iwanaga Hiroaki

Hiroaki Iwanaga is a Japanese actor. He is well known for portraying Akira Date in Kamen Rider OOO. He was born on the same day as the broadcast of episode 8 of Kamen Rider (Skyrider). At present, the last time Iwanaga reprised his role as Kamen Rider Birth Prototype was in Super Hero TaisenIcon-crosswiki…

Higashiyama Noriyuki

Higashiyama Noriyuki is a singer, actor, and member of the Japanese pop idol group Shonentai, born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan On October 24, 2010, he got married to actress Yoshino Kimura. A press conference was held on September 7, 2023, where Fujishima Julie Keiko admitted to the sexual misconduct…

Fueki Yuko

Yuko Fueki is a Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan. She is most popular in South Korea, where she is known as Yoo Min. Fueki made her feature film debut in the 2001 film Hotaru (Firefly) and, in the same year, her Korean TV debut. She is more popular in South Korea than in Japan. Fueki was the subject…

Byakkotai

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

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…

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…

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.

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…

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,…