Hirayama Hideyuki

Hirayama has sustained parallel careers as a proficient craftsman of big-budget commercial entertainments and as an artist realizing small-scale, offbeat, and imaginative projects. After a long freelance apprenticeship to such directors as Jūzō Itami and Kichitarō Negishi, he made his debut, a comic…

Kurosawa Toshio

Kurosawa Toshio is a Japanese actor and singer from Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Best known for his role as Ashio Ryurei in "Lady Snowblood" (1973), he was a prominent actor in Japanese cinema during the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. First starting his career at Toho in 1965, on Kihachi Okamoto's…

Sengoku Noriko

Sengoku Noriko was a Japanese film and television actress active primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. She made her film debut in 1947 and starred in several of Akira Kurosawa's early films such as "Drunken Angel" (1948), "The Quiet Duel" (1949), "Stray Dog" (1949), "Scandal" (1950), "The Idiot" (1951)…

Fujita Makoto

He was born in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, the son of silent-film actor Rintarō Fujima, and started his career as a comedian in 1952.Fujita appeared in both jidaigeki and contemporary roles. He starred as Nakamura Mondo, a samurai, in sixteen Hissatsu ("Kill") series on Asahi Broadcasting Corporation from 1973.…

Shihomi Etsuko

Etsuko Shihomi was born on October 29, 1956 in Okayama City, Okayama, Japan as Etsuko Shiomi. She is an actress, known for Sister Street Fighter (1974), Legend of Eight Samurai (1983) and Sonny Chiba's Dragon Princess (1976). She has been married to Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi since 1987. They have three children.

Minowa Yasufumi

Yasufumi Minowa is a Japanese actor. As a child, he especially liked to watch action movies and hoped that he could be a martial arts star like Jackie Chan when he grew up. He went to China as early as 2010 to seek development. Graduating from Beijing Sports University, he has mastered Chinese martial…

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…

Oguni Hideo

Born in Aomori, Japan, Hideo, was a prolific Japanese writer who completed over 100 screenplays. He is best known for co-writing screenplays for a number of films directed by Kurosawa Akira, including Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood and The Hidden Fortress. His first film with Kurosawa was…

Nikaido Satoshi

Nikaido Satoshi is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities, Wako University. He is a 6th gen member of Furano Juku. He belongs to Agent Office Tact. While attending university, he enrolled in a TBS training school for one year. In 1993, he made his drama debut with "Oka…

Miyashita Junko

Miyashita Junko is a Japanese actress who had a long and varied career working both in pink film and mainstream cinema. Miyashita Junko was born in Tokyo. She was working as a waitress at a coffee shop when she was recruited to work in Pink films. Her debut film was in July 1971 with "That's How I Lost".…

Kimi wa Toki no Kanata e

6.8

The story is about 1560 Japan when samurais were trying to battle each other for power and territory and Kimura was dueling with his rival when a time slip sucked them up into 20th Japan and deposited him in Tokyo.…

The Boat to Heaven

9.0

A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean every day. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin and…

Senritsu Kaiki File Super Kowa Too! Dark Mystery: Snake Woman

6.8

Director Kudo receives a video shot by job-hopper Sakurai. The video shows a beautiful woman who lingers at the side of a river in the countryside. Sakurai has fallen in love with her and visits her home, but there…

Tadashi Koi no Hajimekata: Horoama? Horoniga? Date Hen

7.4

Ozaki Mako is trying her best to become friends with Sakurai Yuma, a senior who she looks up to, and the chance appears when Yuma offers to have a study session alone with her. The two also decide to go on a movie…

Risky

6.9

Kuroda Mika, engaged to Sakurai Toru, enjoys a privileged life at work, leaving tasks to others while boasting about her upcoming marriage, earning her the disdain of colleagues. Among them, Asai Mitsutoshi, a part-timer,…

Virgin Road

7.5

To pursue her dreams, Sakurai Kazumi quits her job and goes to New York to study jewelry design, against the objections of her naggy and stubborn but well-meaning father. As part of remaking herself, she changes from…

Sabae to Yattara Owaru

6.8

Uji spends his days consulting with Sabae Reika, Sakurai's best friend and Uji's friend, about his feelings for his classmate, Sakurai. However, sometimes, he becomes strangely conscious of Sabae, gets nervous, and…

The Last Ronin

7.3

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon…

Nezumi, Edo wo Hashiru

7.0

Under the rule of Shogun Ienari, the samurais and the townspeople are all discontented and grumbling about their lot in life. Amidst all these, there lives a man by the name of Jirokichi, popularly known as Nezumi…

Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black Fox

7.3

Has the world suddenly split into four? Keiwa Sakurai, Neon Kurama, Michinaga Azuma, and Tsumuri are flung into different worlds. And for some reason, a different Ace exists in each of the four worlds. The cause seems…