Ichikawa Utaemon

Ichikawa Utaemon was a Japanese film actor famous for starring roles in jidaigeki from the 1920s to the 1960s. Trained in kabuki from childhood, he made his film debut in 1925 at Makino Film Productions under Makino Shozo. Quickly gaining popularity, he followed the example of Makino stars such as Bando…

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…

Ohkochi Denjiro

Ohkochi entered Shinkokugeki, training under Sawada Shojiro. Shinkokugeki was known for jidaigeki, the period drama genre, particularly for its realistic sword fights (tate) or swordplay (kengeki). With this background, Ohkochi entered the Nikkatsu studio in 1925 and soon came to fame in chanbara (sword-fighting)…

Shinoda Masahiro

Shinoda attended Waseda University, where he studied theater and also participated in the Hakone Ekiden long distance race. He joined the Shōchiku Studio in 1953 as an assistant director, where he worked on films by such directors as Yasujirō Ozu. He debuted as a director in 1960 with One-Way Ticket…

Fukumoto Seizo

Seizo Fukumoto is a Japanese actor. Born February 3, 1943, he entered acting at age 15 in Kyoto, the capital of Japanese cinema. A specialist in film and television jidaigeki set in the Edo period, he most often plays a ronin, but in his hundreds of appearances he has taken nearly every role. His forte…

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)…

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.

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.…

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…

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…

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…

AI - Watashi To Kanojo To Jinkou Chinou

6.5

The comedy describes how Tanaka Shizuku who works in a system development company, installs the AI developed by her company into her computer and causes havoc in the lives of her and her flatmate Sakurai Momo who is…

Por Mai Lek Tai Song Tua

6.8

When Panu’s twin children Oley and Nene want Karaked, a teacher, to be their stepmom, the two start to play cupid. But their obstacles are General Samurjai, Karaked’s father who tries every way to intervene between…

Go Find a Psychic!

6.6

Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while for the rest of the year they hide their abilitties. Yone Sakurai…

Algernon ni Hanataba wo

7.2

Abandoned by his mother as a child, Fujishima Haru, a mentally challenged man, works as a baker at Sakurai Bakery alongside the owner, Sakurai Kyoko, and Tashiro Miki, another mentally challenged girl who is like a…

Ame to Yume no Ato ni

7.3

Based on a novel by Akutagawa Prize-winning author, Yu Miri, 'Ame to Yume no Ato ni' is a story about the supernatural and the bonds between a father and daughter. Sakurai Tomoharu is a single parent who has an extremely…

Geats Extra: Kamen Rider Tycoon Meets Kamen Rider Shinobi

7.3

Amakusa Shiro Tokisada has taken over the Konsei Company and wishes to take over the world as well. Meanwhile, siblings Keiwa and Sara Sakurai are sucked into the World of Shinobi, and become puzzled by the society…

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…

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…