Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Ito Kentaro

Ito Kentarō, formerly known only by his given name, "Kentaro", is a Japanese actor and model. He was born in Tokyo and began his early career as a model in 2012 at age 14. In 2014, he joined Bonn Image, a modeling agency, at first for advertising jobs. Then, he landed a supporting role in the highly…

Hatsumi Masaaki

Hatsumi was born in Noda, Japan on December 2, 1931. He heavily participated in sports during his school years, along with martial arts and theater, including becoming "captain of the football team". While attending the Meiji University, he continued learning judo and eventually rose to Yudansha or…

Kotegawa Yuko

Kotegawa Yuko, born July 16, 1959 in Oita Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress. Yuko made her film debut in 1976 in Hoshi to Arashi. She was cast in the 1983 Toho adaptation of the novel The Makioka Sisters. In 1991 the Japan Academy recognized her as the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in…

Kaneko Shusuke

Shusuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo, 8 June 1955. Drawn to film as a young boy, he filled his early years with science fiction and kaiju movies, giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. Much of TV in Japan in the early and mid-60s was made up of imported shows from America, and Kaneko's imagination…

Higuchi Shinji

Higuchi Shinji, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese director and former special effects director. Higuchi has done much to overhaul the visual effects landscape of Japanese films, starting with the critically acclaimed Gamera trilogy in the 90s. He encouraged the melding of CGI with traditional “suitmation”…

Uchiyama Rina

Uchiyama Rina is a Japanese actress and idol. Rina was first discovered in her hometown in Kanagawa prefecture by her current talent agency Sweet Power at the age of 15. Scouts for the agency had been going around Kanagawa looking for future potential talents when they heard of a "cute girl" working…

Matsuzaka Keiko

Matsuzaka Keiko is a Japanese actress, born in Outa, Tokyo. Her father was a naturalized South Korean while her mother was Japanese. Active as a child actress in the 1960s, she came into her own as an adult with Daiei, then in 1972 with Shochiku. Keiko played the "Madonna" role in the 1981 film Naniwa…

Shishido Joe

Shishido Joe was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname…

Kurosawa Akira

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, he directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After…

Mangetsu: Mr. Moonlight

6.0

Koyata Sugisaka is a samurai of the Tsugaru clan. One day, while travelling to Ezochi under the command of the clan, he gets caught up in a time slip and ends up in modern Sapporo. There he meets a woman named Mari,…

After the Rain

7.2

This film follows a samurai with no master and his wife while they are waiting for the rain to stop in order to cross the mountain. For the time being, they both help the poor by giving them a place to stay, food and…

The Dragon Fighter

7.6

Chi Leung is a small-time crook whose only friend is a young kid called Little Monster. One day, Little Monster is killed by a gangster who Works for Dragon Head. Enraged, Alex teams up with a formidable police officer…

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)

Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo. With the capital on edge, master crimefighter Kondo Umon is brought…

Yoidore Kotoji

7.9

Akame Kotoji became a wandering samurai in order to avenge his lord and the uproar over the stolen lances, settles down at a tenement house in Edo that Kujiya Shouemon owns with the intention of spending the rest of…

Stereo Future

6.7

Keisuke, an aspiring samurai-movie actor lands a major role in a new film, but must contend with a director who has nothing but scorn for him, but who continually fawns over the film's obnoxious ham of a star. Meanwhile,…

JIN Season 2

8.4

It has been two years since Minakata Jin went back in time to the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. One day, Sakamoto Ryoma arrives from Kyoto to seek Jin's help. Ryoma says Katsu Kaishu's mentor, Sakuma Shozan,…

Yume zo Mishi

In Jimpachi Kodera's household, young samurai Keishiro Kanie arrives, captivating Jimpachi's wife, Shoko, despite his initially arrogant demeanor. Keishiro introduces himself while Shoko is cleaning, and she recalls…

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…