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 Gangsters

5.0

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…

Kaden Samurai Special Stop! Chushingura

Nomitori Samurai

6.3

A samurai angers the daimyo, who orders him to work catching cats’ fleas from customers to earn a daily wage. But in fact, his work is to give sexual services to female customers. (Source: Mubi)

Kaden Samurai

During the Edo period, a flustered samurai receives state-of-the-art home appliances courtesy of the modern world. (Source: MyDramaList)

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…

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…

Gachi Samurai

6.2

Three former farmers from Kinugasa Village — Ryutoku, Gon, and Yonesuke, become samurai to earn a living. The three of them are the toughest swordsmen within their own village, but they soon face a formidable rival…

My Samurai Boyfriend Is from a Game

Shino travels between reality and the end of the Edo period through a simulation game. There she meets Heisuke, a Shinsengumi samurai, with whom she ends up falling in love. Within the game, he interacts with other…

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…

Hayasaka Fumio

Hayasaka Fumio is a Japanese composer born in the city of Sendai on the main Japanese island of Honshū. In 1918, Hayasaka and his family moved to Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaidō. In 1933, Hayasaka and Akira Ifukube organized the New Music League, which held a new music festival the year…

Chiba Yasuki

Though remembered largely for his inventive postwar shomin-geki, Chiba specialized initially in period films before achieving commercial success with such popular romances as Hideko the Cheerleader (Hideko no ōendanchō, 1940), a vehicle for the teenage Hideko Takamine. Among his wartime films, Women’s…

Higuchi Shinji

Higuchi Shinji, born in Tokyo, is a Japanese director and former special effects director. Higuchi has done much to overhaul the visual effects landscape of Japanese films, starting with the critically acclaimed Gamera trilogy in the 90s. He encouraged the melding of CGI with traditional “suitmation”…

Hosokawa Shigeki

Hosokawa Shigeki is a Japanese actor and former model. From 1995 to 2000, he was a professional model. He took time off from modeling in 2002 to study acting more thoroughly. He did not go to an acting school after his high school graduation so he used this time to improve his skill. Though mainly a…

Hirata Akihiko

He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University, Hirata confounded many family expectations of him…

Kaga Takeshi

Kaga Takeshi is a well-known stage and movie actor in Japan who is probably best known internationally for his portrayal of Chairman Kaga in the Japanese television show Iron Chef produced by Fuji TV. His real name is Katsuta Shigekatsu. Kaga was born in the city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture,…

Ichikawa Shinichi

Ichikawa Shinichi was a Japanese writer, playwright, Novelist and commentator. He served as chairman of the Japan Broadcasting Writers Association. Born in Isahaya City, Nagasaki Prefecture.

Nakanishi Kenji

Nakanishi Kenji is a Japanese producer and managing director in Media Mix Japan Company. (Source: mmj-pro.co.jp)

Miyamoto Masae

Miyamoto Masae is a Japanese stylist and costume designer from Chiba, Japan. Originally working in accounting at Iwanami Films, she became interested in film work and joined Daiichi Kosho in 1985. With her family background in a clothing store, she decided to pursue costume design, believing that if…

Satomi Kotaro

Kōtarō Satomi is a Japanese actor from the city of Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He appears in both contemporary roles and in the historical dramas known as jidaigeki.