Saotome Taichi

Saotome Taichi is a Japanese film and stage actor best known for playing beautiful young men and onnagata roles of women. He is known as "Nagashime Ouji" (流し目王子) or "Sidelong Glance Prince". His father is the head of the gekidan sujaku theatre troupe, and Saotome grew up within the troupe,…

Uekusa Keinosuke

Uekusa Keinosuke was a Japanese novelist and screenwriter.

Onoe Eigoro

Kobuki Nanao

Kobuki Nanao is a Japanese child actress.

Tachibana Teijiro

Kabuki actor, mainly playing female roles. (Female Onnagata).

Nakamura Ganjiro

A Kabuki actor with a long lineage in the trade. In 1900 a film was made of his play "Hato no Ukisu" by Tsuchiya Tsuneji

Nakamura Kasen I

Talented Onnagata Kabuki actor

Onoe Kikugoro V

A Japanese Kabuki actor, one of the three most famous and celebrated of the Meiji period,along with Ichikawa Danjūrō IX and Ichikawa Sadanji I. Unlike most kabuki actors, who specialize in a particular type of role, Kikugorō, as a kaneru yakusha, played both tachiyaku (male heroes) and onnagata (women)…

Bando Kotaro

Bando Kotaro was a Kabuki actor and film actor in the early Showa period, born in Renjakucho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Honma Kentaro. At the age of five, he became a disciple of Sawamura Sojuro the seventh generation, and at the age of eight, he moved to the apprenticeship of Bando Mitsugoro…

Ichikawa Enya

Ichikawa Enya is a kabuki actor.

The Master Spearman

7.3

Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of two kabuki actresses who helped him enjoy what he thought would be his…

Kariya Keibu Series 14: Kyoto Belly Dance Satsujin Jiken

Inspector Kariya challenges the mystery of serial murders that occur in the world of Hanayagi in Kyoto. A popular Kabuki actor was poisoned and killed at his home. Then, a geisha who was allegedly in a romantic relationship…

The Maid of Dojoji Temple

5.0

In the morning mist, Shiori stands on the roof of a high-rise building. Dressed in the colourful kimono of the maiden in the Kabuki dance Musumedojoji, she throws herself off the roof. Shiori was the only female disciple…

Wheels and Axle

6.0

Manami is a female student who hates her wealthy family because they are fake. She meets Jun, a wealthy gay man, in Kabuki-cho, Shinjuku. They go to a male host club together and begin to share a host guy called Seiya.…

Hana no Asuka-gumi!

6.4

In the year 199X, on the dark, shady streets of New Kabuki Town, the free-for-all between gangs of young delinquents and a corrupt police force is further complicated by the appearance of a mysterious girl named Asuka.…

Ashura

6.6

Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki.…

Rainbow Boys

6.7

The film tells the bittersweet love life of a group of young men who could not be more different from each other: Ryuji is a teenager passionate about rugby, Akira is a beautiful and popular kabuki actor, and Yutaro…

Oiwa Inari

The first known film relating to the classic ghost story Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan ("Ghost Story of Yotsuya on the Tokaido", 1825), a kabuki play written by Tsuruya Nanboku IV and first performed at Tokyo's Nakamura theatre,…

Hino's Clogs

2.0

Although there is no record of who filmed it and when or where it was released, this first attempt at Japan's quintessential film genre (period or era films) seemed to have ended up in failure. The cast was comprised…

An Actor's Revenge

7.3

Yukitaro, a seven-year-old orphan, is adopted by Kikunojo Nakamura, a kabuki troupe manager. As an adult, he becomes an onnagata (male actor in female roles) under the stage name Yukinojo. Years later, he seeks revenge…