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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The 8-Tomb Village

6.5

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

It's a Summer Film

7.6

Hadashi, a high schooler, is obsessed with old Japanese samurai films. When her film club rejects her samurai film project, she decides to gather her friends and craft the film on her own terms. She convinces a reluctant…