Takagi Shinpei

Takagi joined the acting school at Nikkatsu in 1920 but made his mark first at Makino Film Productions as a samurai film action star known for his speed and ability to do stunts. He started his own company, Takagi Shinpei Productions, in 1927 and directed one of his own films. He later moved from one…

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…

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.

Unagami Hideo

After dropping out of college in 1932, Unagami began a career as a theater actor, only for his career to be interrupted when he was drafted to serve in the military during World War II. After the war, Unagami became an actor for Shochiku and appeared in the 1946 film Comedy is Endless. He soon left…

Ketsaro Thanawut

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

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.

Natsui Runa

Natsui Runa is a Japanese actress and best known for playing the role of Shiba Kaoru in the TV show Samurai Sentai Shinkenger.

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…

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…

Shoro Nagashi: Anata wo Wasurenai

8.0

In the summer of 1982, Sakurai Masahiko returns home to Nagasaki so he can participate in sending off the floating lanterns during O-bon. It's the first O-bon since his beloved aunt, Setsuko, has died. Masahiko is…

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…

Dead End: Rasetsu no Kokuin

The Hikawa Group is a yakuza organization that controls Yokohama. Sakurai Akito, who works as one of its members, is a man driven by revenge, having witnessed his parents being murdered before his eyes as a child.…

Geisha vs Ninjas

5.8

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts the samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she fights hard against samurais with her sword. Kotono tries to chase…

Kamen Rider Geats Original Bonus Video: Desire Grand Prix Bonus Stage

7.8

Sarami, a new game navigator who looks exactly like Sara Sakurai, invites Ace Ukiyo, Keiwa Sakurai, Neon Kurama, Michinaga Azuma and Tsumuri to the Desire Grand Prix's Bonus Stage. Not interested at first, Sarami reveals…

Brother Beat

7.4

They don't know when to stop and live life to the full—meet the never-a-dull-moment Sakurai family, where nobody holds their feelings back. Sakurai Harue, who brought up her sons alone after her husband died, is…

Signal: The Movie – Cold Case Investigation Unit

7.5

Story continues from the "Signal" drama series. Saegusa Kento and Sakurai Misaki head to the place where Oyama Takeshi is in the present day. (Source: MyDramaList)

Homeroom

6.6

Rintaro Aida is a handsome teacher. One of his students, Sachiko Sakurai endures unpleasant situations every day. The identity of the person who causes the unpleasantness is not known. Rintaro Aida always saves her…

Kamen Rider The Movie Episode Red: Zero no Star Twinkle

7.3

"Crossing time, fighting for love." The first of three films in the Kamen Rider Cho-Den-O Trilogy, Episode Red: Zero no Star Twinkle is the story of the younger Yuto Sakurai and Airi Nogami, his older self's wife,…

Close Range Love

7.5

Kururugi Yuni is a smart high school student. She excels in all subjects except for English. A new English teacher begins work at Yuni's high school. His name is Sakurai Haruka and he is very handsome. Yuni begins…