3486 results found for: Samurai Fiction
Kudo Eiichi
Kudo Eiichi was a Japanese film director from Tomakomai, Hokkaido. His 1982 film Yajudeka was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. His 1963 film 13 Assassins was the basis for the 2010 remake by Takashi Miike. Born into a merchant family in Numanohata, he is the eldest of eight…
Shoei
Takahashi Teruhide, better known with his stage name Shoei, is a Japanese model and actor. Former javelin thrower during his school days. (Source: Wikipedia)
Som Kanokkorn Jaicheun
Som Kanokkorn Jaicheun is a beauty pageant contestant who won Miss Thailand World 2007 and represented Thailand in Miss World 2007 in China. She studied communication arts at Bangkok University.
Chin Sheng En
Chin Sheng En was a Taiwanese actor, writer, producer, and director. He worked in numerous films from 1956-1989. Chin married into a prominent Taiwanese family. He died of stomach cancer on December 7, 2004.
Takada Kokichi
Takada Kokichi is a Japanese actor and singer born in Sonoda Village, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Kajiura Takeichi. He is a historical drama star representing Shochiku before the war, and is known as the first "Singing Movie Star". His second daughter is actress Takada Miwa,…
Oba Yasumasa
Oba Yasumasa is a Japanese stage and film actor. He joined Bungakuza theatre company in 1993 and has been a member since 1998.
Miura Yoichi
Actor. In November 1999, it was found he have esophageal cancer . After his fight against illness, he died on May 14, 2000 at the young age of 46
Ronin Gai
Japanese Movie - 1957
An ensemble of colorful characters and social outcasts patronize a restaurant and bar on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. One disgraced and disillusioned…
Swords in the Moonlight 1
Japanese Movie - 19577.2
Set in the chaotic and transitory late Edo Period, the story follows the nihilistic antihero Ryunosuke Tsukue, a psychotic samurai who senselessly massacres a helpless pilgrim in the opening scene. From this point…
The Envoy
Japanese Movie - 19584.0
A movie about a troublesome thief from the Edo period who went to Osaka and unexpectedly ended up involved in the battle between a samurai and a moneylender.
Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
Japanese Movie - 1960
Kaidan Kasane Ga Fuchi - An excellent example of traditional Japanese moral sentiment wrapped in a supernatural ghost tale, set in the mid-Edo Era (1773) in the small town of Hanyu in Shimosa Province. A blind masseur…
The River Fuefuki
Japanese Movie - 1960
Japan, 1643. As the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing their blades in a duel to the death. (Source: TMDb) ~~ Adapted…
Kotohime Shichihenge
Japanese Drama - 1960, 105 episodes
Kotohime is a princess that hates living a life following the will of others, she defeats potential marriage partners one after another. Depending on the occasion, she changes from her princess costume to a disguise…
Irezumi Chibusa
Japanese Movie - 1961
In the historic setting of Kitamachi, Tsukitaro, the nephew of the local magistrate, seeks adventure away from the rigid samurai lifestyle. When he learns of a conflict involving the magistrate's dealings with the…
Moon Whistle Sun Whistle Volume 1 Young Warrior under the Moon
Japanese Movie - 1955
The story of the 16th year of the Warring States period. A horse race between Kinmon and Samurai was held at Kamo no Miya Baba, the capital of Kyoto. The knight of the Kinmon is the prestigious Rokujo Hidarimezu of…
The Great White Tiger Platoon
Japanese Movie - 19543.0
The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan’s last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young,…
Kisaragi muso ken
Japanese Movie - 1962
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil plans of the Owari Clan's corrupt Lord. It's a colorful bunch, a drunk…














