Kitamura Kazuo

Kitamura Kazuo was a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Takehaya, Koishikawa, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Arts Department of Waseda University's Faculty of Literature. Kitamura was associated with the Bungakuza theater company, where he began as a research student in 1950 and became a full…

Kubo Naoko

Kubo Naoko is a Japanese actress, mainly known for her appearances in more than 50 films and many jidaigeki (historical) dramas.

Arashi Kakumatsuro

Arashi Kakumatsuro was a Japanese actor born in Matsusaka Village, Iitaka District, Mie Prefecture. His father is the kabuki actor Arashi Kojuro. Around 1897, when he was 19 years old, he became a disciple of Arashi Rikaku IV, an actor of Kansai Kabuki. In 1913, around the age of 35, he began appearing…

Shiba Ryotaro

Shiba Ryotaro (birthname: Fukuda Teiichi) was a Japanese novelist, non-fiction writer, and critic.

Sawamura Sonosuke II

Sawamura Sonosuke II was a Kabuki actor born in Asakusa Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture. His younger brothers are the actors Ito Yunosuke and Sawamura Shonosuke I. He debuted at the Imperial Theater in 1922. Two years later in 1924, he succeeded to the name of the second-generation Sawamura Sonosuke.…

Ohkawa Hashizo II

Ohkawa Hashizo was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred Jidaigeki films from 1955 to 1967. Born in Tokyo, the son of a Yanagibashi geisha, he was soon adopted by the Ono family. His adoptive father was a kabuki actor named Ichikawa Takinoyo II, who trained him in dance and kabuki…

Otabe Michimaro

Otabe Michimaro, born Toki Michimaro ((釈通麿) in Yanaga, Sanmon, Fukuoka, Japan was a Japanese actor and chief priest. He was also known as Otabe Doma (小田部道磨). The son of a temple family in Yanagawa Town, he was drafted into the Pacific War at the age of 18. After returning, he attended…

Nanbara Koji

Nanbara Koji was a Japanese actor. He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He died of myocardial infarction in Chofu, Tokyo at age 74. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kusumoto Kenji

Enomoto Kenji is a Japanese actor born on March 12, 1929 in Tanabe, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. His real name is Enomoto Kenzo.

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.

Yamamura Misa Suspense: The Kyoto Dragon Temple Locked Room Murder

~~ Adapted from the story "Ryu no Tera Satsujin Jiken" (竜の寺殺人事件), within the novel "Nagare-bashi Satsujin Jiken" (流れ橋殺人事件) by Yamamura Misa (山村美紗).

You're Not Him

6.7

A married couple lives under the weight of a deeply unbalanced relationship, one plagued by emotional distance and the constant interference of the husband's former lover, who also happens to be the wife's sister.…

On Marriage: Wishful Syncing

Bao Ting, a man who can’t read between any lines at all, has finally found his arch nemesis - his wife’s childhood bestie who happens to be the most thoughtful gentleman in the world. With the help of BWEI, a wacky…

The Ex-Man

6.7

Just when everything is going well for a 31-year-old woman, a very unusual kink complicates her life. Li Qin Ai is a magazine photographer who is happy with her career and her relationship with her boyfriend, Zhou…

One More Chance

7.6

Water Ng, a typical loser who likes to gamble and takes no responsibility, is asked to take care of his ex-girlfriend Jik’s son, Yeung. When Jik tells him that Yeung is his son and promises him 100 thousand dollars,…

Masura's Fellowship Association

After some intense training, apparently becoming a full-time dispatch husband, Souzo was sent to Sanbun Bunshi Kitami's house. Kitami, who was so poor as to wear a kimono, went to sell manuscripts and sold the manuscripts,…

Bushi to Sono Tsuma

Born to the second son of a samurai family, Kogoro has been treated as useless. Etsu is the only daughter of a strict samurai family who has great looks. Though they are supposed to have a little happiness in a humble…

Bushi ga, Makku de Tenin ni Natta Kudan

8.0

Bushi-Stant Aisakakun

7.0

On the verge of death a passionate shunga painting samurai from edo period somehow travels through time just before his execution. (Source: MangaUpdates)