Yamada Kosaku

Yamada Kosaku, formerly known as Yamada Kosaku, was a Japanese composer and conductor. He left numerous works in Japanese music history with melodies that utilize the intonation of the Japanese language. He also worked to spread Western music in Japan, founding the country's first orchestra. Additionally,…

Arnold Fanck

Arnold Fanck was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre, born in Frankenthal, Germany. Together with Odo Deodatus Tauern, Bernhard Villinger, and Rolf Bauer, Fanck established the company "Berg- und Sportfilm GmbH Freiburg" in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1920. Fanck, who held a PhD…

Koike Keiko

She is a Japanese actress and has starred in Samurai Girl 21 and Muscle Girl.

Nakano Toshiko

Toshiko Nakano is an actress, known for Seven Samurai (1954), The Tale of Osaka Castle (1961) and Varan (1958).

Ketsaro Thanawut

Thanawut Ketsaro is an actor, known for "Yamada: The Samurai of Ayothaya" (2010) and "The Last Executioner" (2014).

Akahori Masaaki

Masaaki Akahori is an actor and writer, known for Sono yoru no samurai (2012), Katsuragi jiken (2016) and Kanojo ga sono na wo shiranai toritachi (2017).

Miyaguchi Seiji

Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman), Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. At the age of 71, he succumbed to lung cancer.

Chiaki Minoru

Chiaki Minoru was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress. In Seven Samurai, he was the good-natured samurai Heihachi, and he was the first of the samurai to be killed. In real life, he was the last of the seven actors to die. Chiaki was…

Yamada Yoji

Yamada Yoji is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy (The Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor). He was born in Osaka. But because of the work of his father, who was an engineer for the South Manchuria Railway, from the…

Yamamura Ken

Ken Yamamura (born Kennosuke Yamamura) is a Japanese actor best known for playing the younger Ichiro Yasuda / Silver Samurai in the 2013 film, The Wolverine, and Takashi in the 2014 remake, Godzilla.

Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei 12

~~ Adapted from the novel "Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei Series" (さすらい署長・風間昭平シリーズ) by Nakatsu Fumihiko (中津文彦).

Sasurai Onsen

7.4

Endo Kenichi is rumoured to have announced his retirement from acting. Staff head somewhere to uncover the truth, only to see a shocking sight. Endo has concealed his identity and been working at little-known as well…

Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei 13

~~ Adapted from the novel "Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei Series" (さすらい署長・風間昭平シリーズ) by Nakatsu Fumihiko (中津文彦).

Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei 14

~~ Adapted from the novel "Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei Series" (さすらい署長・風間昭平シリーズ) by Nakatsu Fumihiko (中津文彦).

Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei 15

~~ Adapted from the novel "Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei Series" (さすらい署長・風間昭平シリーズ) by Nakatsu Fumihiko (中津文彦).

Sasurai no Bonbon Candy

The husband of 34-year-old Hitoe has gone on a long business trip abroad, and she spends her time aimlessly wandering the city, drinking and doing nothing. Masaru, 48, who works as a train conductor, once wanted to…

Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei 16

~~ Adapted from the novel "Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei Series" (さすらい署長・風間昭平シリーズ) by Nakatsu Fumihiko (中津文彦).

Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei 11

~~ Adapted from the novel "Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei Series" (さすらい署長・風間昭平シリーズ) by Nakatsu Fumihiko (中津文彦).

Sakurai Ariyoshi the Yakai

7.9

MCs Sakurai Sho and Ariyoshi Hiroiki creatively use whatever resources they can to help top celebrities and people in the news or the public consciousness to solve their problems or fulfill their desires. Look forward…

Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei 17

~~ Adapted from the novel "Sasurai Shocho Kazama Shohei Series" (さすらい署長・風間昭平シリーズ) by Nakatsu Fumihiko (中津文彦).