Daimon Masaaki

Daimon Masaaki is a Japanese actor born in Takasago City, Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Commerce and has worked for Yoshimura Office, Bam, Toho Film, Kou Hirata Promotion HoriPro, and Tamura Pro. Discovered by director Masumura Yasuzo in 1971, he made his debut as…

Tonoyama Taiji

Taiji Tonoyama was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō…

Katsumoto Keiichiro

An exclusive actor of Toho , he has appeared in many works regardless of genre. English is good at, 1957 in the Columbia movie " The Bridge on the River Kwai" with Sesshu Hayakawa , Henry Okawa played a Japanese military personnel. His wife is Nagauta master Sasei Kineya, and his son is Nagauta master…

Shimazu Yasujiro

Shimazu Yasujiro was a Japanese director. He was one of the major creators of the Shoshimingeki genre (films depicting the lower middle classes) at the Shochiku studios in pre-World War II Japan. Born in Kanda, Tokyo, Shimazu entered the Shochiku studio in 1920 after answering an advertisement and began…

Killer Khan

Killer Khan was a former sumo wrestler from the Kasugano stable and a professional wrestler. He was born in Yoshida, Nishikanbara, Niigata, Japan. His real name was Ozawa Masashi (小澤正志). In sumo, he achieved the highest rank of Makushita 40. After transitioning to professional wrestling, he…

Date Shin

In 1925 he became a member of the theater company Tsukijishogekijo, where he made his debut in the play Gasu. When this theater company was disbanded in 1929, he joined forces with, among others, Osamu Takizawa and transferred to the left-wing theater company Tokyo sayokugekijo . There he spent a lot…

Ishidate Tetsuo

Ishidate Tetsuo was a Japanese actor born in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. After working as a 13th gen member of the Haiyuza Theater Company and a member of the Bungakuza Theater Company, he made a big break in the 1970 TV drama "Oku-sama wa 18-sai". He starred in a number of family dramas in…

Inagaki Hiroshi

A skilled and versatile filmmaker best known for his jidai-geki, Inagaki worked as an actor before directing. In the silent era, he narrated traditional stories with visual flair and melodramatic intensity: his extant second film, Vagabond Gambler (Hōrō zanmai, 1928), reveals his instinctive talent…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Yoshikura Aoi

Yoshikura Aoi is a Japanese actress and model from Kanagawa Prefecture.

Hana no Yoshiwara

Yoto Monogatari: Hana no Yoshiwara Hyaku Nin Giri

~~ Adapted from the kabuki play "Kago Tsuribe Hanagai Suisei'' (籠釣瓶花街酔醒).

Hachidai Shogun Yoshimune

The 34th NHK Taiga Drama portrays the life of Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1716 - 1745).

Tsukiumaya Oen Jikencho Special, Onna no En ni Chiruhana Saku Hana! Yoshiwara to Oku no Hikatokage!

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Kodomo Taikoki

Abarenbo Shogun

7.6

Tokugawa Yoshimune is the 8th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. He continues to have bad people creating havoc within his city of Megumi. With the help of his close associates, Lord Tokugawa is allowed to roam throughout…

Tokyo Bordello

~~ Adapted from the book "Meiji Yoshiwara Saiken Ki" (明治吉原細見記) by Sato Shinichi (斎藤真一).

Tokugawa Fuunroku

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This 10-hour New Year's special follows the life of the eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune and his rise to power.

Crossroads

6.8

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect…