Fujiyama Ritsuko

Fujiyama Ritsuko, born Tada Kayo (多田佳代) in Tokushima, Japan, is an actress, voice actress, and narrator. She initially performed under the stage name Tada Kimiko (多田きみこ). Fujiyama is affiliated with Will Alliance (ウイルアライアンス). She graduated from Tokushima Prefectural…

Takahata Yuta

Yuta Takahata is a Japanese actor and tarento. Takahata graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. He is the eldest son of actress Atsuko Takahata and actor Ryosuke Otani, and his sister-in-law is actress Kotomi Takahata. Takahata is also related to Keiko Kitagawa and Daigo. Takahata was…

Mikami Kan

Mikami Kan is a Japanese folk singer, poet, and actor born in Kodomari Village in Aomori Prefecture (now Nakadomari Town) on March 20, 1950. He comes from a family of fisherman. During his time at Aomori's Goshogawara High School, he served as the student council president. At that time, he also formed…

Nakao Akira

Nakao Akira was a Japanese actor, TV personality, and artist from Kisarazu, Chiba. Nakao was represented by the Furutachi Project agency. Nakao attended Chiba Prefectural Kisarazu High School from 1958 and entered Musashino Art University from 1961. Also in 1961, he was selected in the "5th Nikkatsu…

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…

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…

Nakamura Yuma

Nakamura Yuma is a Japanese actress, singer, and television personality born in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. She is currently represented by the agency MYS. Nakamura developed an interest in the entertainment industry during her later years in elementary school, auditioning for theater groups and participating…

Nishikawa Ayako

Nishikawa Ayako, born April 5, 1971 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, is a Japanese female TV star as a tarento and comedienne and a cosmetic surgeon. She is unusual in Japan in that she is willing to appear on television, as professional doctors generally show some hesitancy to appear. Her father is…

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,…

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.…

IZO

6.3

Almost defying description, Miike's film opens with found documentary footage about sperm-production in young males and then turns to a graphically violent recreation of the execution in 1865 of the 28-year-old Okada…

Kaidan

6.5

Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again.…

Shogun's Ninja

6.5

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…

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.

Heaven and Earth

7.0

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.…

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…

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…

Shin Abarenbo Shogun

7.5

The eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, fights against evil rampant in Edo while blending in with the common people as Tokuda Shinnosuke, the third son of a poor samurai retainer, commonly known as "Shin-san". The story…

Sisam

Set in the early Edo period, this story follows Kojiro, the son of a Matsumae clan samurai, whose family trades with the Ainu people. After his older brother Einosuke is murdered by a treacherous servant, Kojiro travels…

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…