3494 results found for: Samurai Fiction
Itami Mansaku
Itami Mansaku was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, actor, essayist, and illustrator. He was the father of director Itami Juzo.
Kadokawa Haruki
Kadokawa Haruki is a Japanese publisher, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He was the son of Genyoshi Kadokawa and inherited the position of president of the publishing house Kadokawa Shoten in 1975. Under his guidance, the company soon branched into film production, and by 1994 Kadokawa had…
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,…
Conclusion of Kojiro Sasaki: Duel on Ganryu Island
Japanese Movie - 19514.0
Master swordsman Kojiro Sasaki is not content with the knowledge of his own power and constantly seeks to impress it upon others. Another great samurai swordsman, Musashi Miyamoto, has great respect for Sasaki’s…
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,…
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…
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 Wandering Gambler
Japanese Movie - 1928
The story is set in the turbulent period before the Meiji Restoration and tells the story of Mondo, a young and good-natured samurai who is happily married with Tsuyu, and for that reason, they soon have a child, Kotaro.…
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.
Jin
Japanese Drama - 2009, 11 episodes8.3
Minakata Jin, a brain surgeon, has been tormented for two years after his fiancée falls into a vegetative state following an operation he performed. One day, he faints at the hospital and wakes up in the Edo period.…
Rashomon
Japanese Movie - 19508.0
The film opens on a woodcutter and a priest sitting beneath the Rajomon city gate to stay dry in a downpour. A commoner joins them and they tell him that they have witnessed a disturbing story, which they then begin…
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JIN Season 2
Japanese Drama - 2011, 11 episodes8.4
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,…













