Kojima Haruna

Kojima Haruna (小嶋 陽菜) is a singer, actress, and a former member of idol group AKB48 under Team A. Kojima started her career as a member of Angel Eyes, an idol group under Stardust Promotion that disbanded in 2001. Initially, she was under contract with Stardust Promotion when she was still with…

Kato Shigeaki

Kato Shigeaki joined Johnny's Entertainment on April 17, 1999, when he was 12. As a junior, he was a member of Best Beat Boys (B.B.B.), Boys Be Ambitious (B.B.A.), Best Beat Dancing (B.B.D.), Beautiful American Dreams (B.A.D.), J-support, and K.K.Kity. He then debuted as a member of NEWS in 2003. Along…

Tanaka Minami

Tanaka Minami is a Japanese announcer and actress born in New York City, US, and was given the middle name of Amy. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Japan but after her first year in elementary school, she lived in London and San Francisco before returning to Japan for junior high school. She…

Nakamura Anne

Nakamura Anne is a Japanese model, tarento, and actress, her real name is Nakamura Yuko. She is represented by Platinum Production. Nakamura was born in Fukagawa, Koto, Tokyo. She graduated from Koto Ward Elementary School, Meijiro Gakuen Junior and Senior High School (now Mejiro Kenkokoro Junior and…

Kazama Shunsuke

Kazama Shunsuke is a Japanese actor, entertainer, voice actor, and presenter born in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. After leaving SMILE-UP, he has been active as a freelancer. Kazama's interest in television dramas led him to audition for Johnny & Associates in 1997, during his second year of junior high school,…

Yamamoto Maika

Yamamoto Maika is a Japanese actress, TV personality, and fashion model. She is known for her roles as Kaede Kayano in Assassination Classroom, Chiyomi Horikiri in the 2015 television drama Minami-kun no Koibito, and Mizuki Kurata in the 2018 film adaptation of the manga series After the Rain, among…

Ibu Masato

bu Masato, born Murota Satoru (室田悟) in Nogata, Nakano, Tokyo, is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator. His previous stage names included Ibu Sen (伊武専) from 1966 to 1969, Ibu Masami (伊武正巳) from 1970 to 1973, and Ibu Masayuki (伊武雅之) from 1973 to 1980. He is currently…

Himura Yuki

Himura Yuki is a Japanese comedian, presenter, and actor, born in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. He is part of the comedy duo Banana Man. Himura grew up in Chuo, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, and is affiliated with Horipro Com. His wife, Kanda Aika, is a freelance announcer. He graduated…

Hirano Sho

Hirano Sho is a singer, actor, and entertainer born in Nagoya City, Japan. Since 2012, he has been represented by Johnny's. He began learning how to dance in the second year of elementary school and began learning acrobatics in junior high. For a time, he signed with the agency Central Japan in Nagoya.…

Miyazawa Hio

Miyazawa Hio is a Japanese actor and model born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Tokyo. He is the eldest son of singer and actor Miyazawa Kazufumi, and TV personality Mitsuoka Dionne. He's one quarter American as his mother is of Japanese-American descent. After high school, he studied at…

Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills

7.9

The film depicts the uneasy life of Isomura Noe with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband passed away. One day, on the journey back home from her aunt's grave, Noe meets a Samurai under…

Kagero no Tsuji 2

6.0

This is a story about a gifted swordsman who overcomes problems with a strong sense of justice and genuine sympathy toward commoners. Four years have passed since Iwane moved to Edo but he still lived in a row house…

Naniwa no Hana - Ogata Koan Jikencho

5.0

Seemingly wimpish medical student Ogata Akira, later Ogata Koan, who was born to a samurai family yet lacks the fighting spirit, solves crime cases with a help of Sakon, a mysterious girl disguised as samurai belonging…

Sakurada Gate Incident

6.2

At dawn, on February 18, 1860, samurai of Mito domain Tetsunosuke Seki (Osawa Takao) leaves his wife Fusa (Hasegawa Kyoko) and son - Seki Seiichiro (Kato Seishiro) behind to fulfill a deadly mission. In January, Tetsunosuke…

Oyari Haishaku - Yoidore Kotoji Tomegaki

7.7

Akame Kotoji, a shabby, middle-aged, low-ranking samurai, is a stableman at the suburban villa of Narushima Michihisa, the feudal lord of the desperately poor Kuju domain. One day, he downs litres of alcohol in a drinking…

Ooka Echizen - Shirasu ni Saita Shinjitsu

6.0

The case starts with the discovery of a brutally murdered man beneath an embankment on a dry winter’s day. Among the onlookers is an elderly samurai Kazama Gorozaemon (Kato Go) who gazes at the corpse with a piercing…

Nuke Mairu - Onna 3-nin Ise Mairi

7.2

Ino, the daughter of a restaurant owner; Shika, the beautiful, dignified wife of a samurai; and Chou, the proprietress of a sundries shop were the ultimate trio of Bakurocho in Edo in their youth. Now they are all…

Have a Nice Day

6.0

Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa…

Last Ninja - Red Shadow

The first of a two-part ninja action series depicting the elaborate espionage campaign occurring behind the scenes of the 'Toba-Fushimi Battle'. At the end of the Edo Period which brought the era of the samurai to…