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…

Matsuyama Takashi

A Japanese production designer and art director. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction: the first time for his work in Rashomon (1950), and the second time for his work in Seven Samurai (1954). In 1950 he won the award for Best Art Direction at the Mainichi Film Concours…

Otani Yosuke

Otani Yosuke was born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1970. He made his debut as a screenwriter in 2008 with the drama "Tokyo Ghost Trip." He has since worked on various drama productions, including "Oyakoko Play" (2008) and "Oretachi wa Tenshi da! NO ANGEL NO LUCK" (2009). In 2015, he received the Excellence…

Motoki Sojiro

A Japanese filmmaker who served primarily as a film producer, but also as a writer and director. He was most famous for producing several films for Akira Kurosawa, including Seven Samurai, Ikiru and Throne of Blood. He also produced films for other directors, including Mikio Naruse, for whom he produced…

Uno Koji

He was born on April 21 , 1924 in Fukuoka Prefecture Omuta born in Fukuoka Prefectural Miike Junior High School (now Fukuoka Prefectural Miike high school), 1944 (Showa 19) he graduated from the Japan film school. In the same year, he was dispatched to the acting section of Toho Photo Studio. After…

Ishii Gakuryu

Ishii’s career divides into two distinct halves: the brash early films, which earned him a reputation as a punk filmmaker, and the slower, pictorial, sometimes meditative work of his mature period. His early features were the fruit of the amateur short films he directed, while still a student, on…

Miura Shohei

Miura Shohei is a Japanese actor and fashion model. In 2007, Shohei joined the 20th Junon Superboy Contest and won the Photogenic Award as well as the Ideal Lover Award. Before he won these awards and started acting, he had appeared on television variety programs in 2006. He was on TBS's "E Musume!"…

Ikematsu Sosuke

Sōsuke Ikematsu is a Japanese film, television, and theatre actor best known for his role as Higen, the young nephew of samurai leader Katsumoto, in the 2003 film The Last Samurai.

Mifune Toshiro

Toshiro Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. He also portrayed Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's…

Mihiro

Mihiro, also known as Taniguchi Mihiro, is a Japanese actress, singer, TV personality and former adult video (AV) actress. She began a career as a softcore nude model as early as May 2001. She appeared in a number of other softcore nude modeling videos and photobooks over the next year and a half. She…

Samurai Pirates

2.0

Kaede Murakami lives with her family on an island in the Seto Inland Sea. The family's livelihood is threatened when a ferry ship route to the island may be closed for good. Her family are also the descendents of Takeyoshi…

Under the name of Samurai Japan National Baseball Team SAMURAI JAPAN 800 days

A documentary film that follows the Japanese national baseball team Samurai-Japan for approximately 800 days between the appointment of the former baseball player Atsunori Inaba as manager, and Japan's triumph in WBSC…

Samurai Rock

7.1

Masami is a guitarist who dreams of his band “Rhythm Head” winning the Grand Prix at the Japan Music Carnival. History, and the warlords of 16th century feudal Japan are the very last thing on his mind. But when…

Samurai Detective Onihei: True Master

A captured thief gang member, Kobusa no Kumehachi just could not believe when he heard that his previous leader, Chigashira no Tanbei was behind a brutal case of robbery. Tanbei that he knows is a genuine thief who…

Samurai Detective Onihei: White Plum Allure

A mysterious assassin cloaked in a haunting, seductive fragrance sets his sights on Hasegawa Heizo. Kaneko Hanshiro, a master swordsman, attacks with deadly precision, leaving Heizo to uncover the truth behind the…

Samurai Detective Onihei: Two Righteous Swords

Accompanied by his constable, Kimura Chugo, Hasegawa Heizo travels to Kyoto to visit his father's grave for the first time in 16 years. On the way to their lodgings, they rescue a girl named Oyone from a group of thugs.…

Samurai Vengeance

On a snowy night, a lone samurai stains Edo crimson, achieving a ruthless vendetta. Beheading his father's murderer, he raises the head, chilling elation in his eyes…, but it does not end here. (Source: JFDb)

Samurai Zombie: Fragile

Saemonnosuke Ueshita is a samurai turned zombie who desperately tries to hide the fact that he is a zombie from the people around him. He lives in the home of 80-year-old Shokichi who fancies himself a modern Sherlock…

Samurai Gangsters

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Jirocho is a gambler who's forced to leave his wife, Ocho, in Shimizu for three years as he trains as a professional gambler. When he finally returns to Shimizu with his own crew of loyal gangsters, he finds Ocho has…

Samurai Princess

5.0

Bad guys raped a bunch of schoolgirls in the forest, but one girl survived with a lot of injures. She is found by mad scientist, which gave her a robo body. Since this moment she decides to take revenge for her friends…