Muraki Yoshiro

A Japanese production designer, art director, and costume designer. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work in the films Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Kagemusha (1980), and Ran (1985). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for…

Kobayashi Shigeo

Shigeo Kobayashi is a Japanese actor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Kobayashi worked on over 80 films, theatrical productions and TV drama series. In 2008, he played the leading role in a short film "Todai (the Light House)" a part of Otokotachi no Uta. His most recent work includes the role of a Japanese…

Miyamura Yuko

Miyamura Yuko is a Japanese voice actress, actress, J-pop singer, and director of audiography. Her married name is Seki Yuko, although she still works under her maiden name. Miyamura was born in Kobe, and graduated from the theater division of the Tōhō Gakuen College of Drama and Music. Her pet name…

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".…

Mickey Curtis

Mickey Curtis (born Michael Brian Curtis) is a Japanese actor, singer, and media personality. He was born to English-Japanese parents. A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Mickey is considered one of the three big Japanese names in rock music, helping to popularize the genre in the 1950s where…

Kariya Shunsuke

Shunsuke Kariya was born on November 26, 1946 in Oita, Japan. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Satomi hakken-den (1983), The Last Dinosaur (1977) and Battle Angel (1993).

Shirota Yu

Shirota Yu (Birth name: Yu Shirota Fernandez) is a Japanese-Spanish actor, most known for his role as Kagurazaka Makoto in the Japanese television drama live-action adaption of Hana-Kimi, Kunimitsu Tezuka in the Prince of Tennis Musicals and as Kei Shinjo in Rookies. In 2009, he was named one of the…

Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi is a Japanese composer and musical director, known for his eminent film scores for world famous directors. Hisaishi was born as Fujisawa Mamoru, on December 6, 1950 in Nakano, Japan. At the age of five, he started taking violin lessons, at which he made rapid progress. At the age of nineteen,…

Kinami Haruka

Kinami Haruka, born in Toyonaka City, Osaka, is a Japanese actress represeted by Horipro. She graduated from Kokugakuin University. Her sister is actress Kinami Sayaka and her husband is actor Tamaki Hiroshi. In 2001, she was selected as the "Summer High School Baseball PR High School Girl" while attending…

Toyama Haruko

Samurai Geisha

7.4

Popular geisha Shinji must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era, she then falls in love with the charismatic Shimada. With a stellar all-star…

Samurai Lover

4.0

A re-movie of the nonsense historical drama written by Mansaku Itami and Shigetaka Iseno , which was produced in 1952.

Ozora no Samurai

7.0

The Tainan Airlines Zero Squadron, to which Sakai Saburo belongs, advanced to Rabaul in the South Pacific four months after the start of the Pacific War. Lieutenant Sasai, who had just arrived, was saved by Sakai when…

Samurai Kids

7.6

A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8 year old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall. (Source: Letterboxd)

Samurai Tantei Jikenbo

Samurai Girl 21

10.0

Hagakure Makoto, young and cute, is trying to find a regular job to help support her family. She has no training in the real world, and she will meet with several corporate evils. But she was trained as a samurai by…

Samurai Chicks

5.2

Located on southernmost islands of Japan, there's a dance school "Orion Dancers Academy". Hiding its public identity as a training school of singers and dancers, it actually operates as a girl-warrior training school,…

Samurai: Mikomareta Otokotachi

A tale of three samurai boldly standing against villains who have taken the innkeeper's family hostage and are demanding a ransom. (Source: Japanese = tvdrama-db || Translation = MyDramaList)

Samurai Wolf 2: Hell Cut

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is…

Samurai Champloo

Fuu Kasumi is an ordinary waitress in a quiet teahouse, but her life takes a chaotic turn when a simple mistake lands her in trouble with a group of aggressive samurai. In desperation, she turns to Mugen, a reckless…