Obana Kie

Obana Kie is a Japanese model & actress.

Kataoka Keiji

Kataoka Keiji is a Japanese director and television producer for NHK. Born in Tokyo, he majored in civil engineering at university where he his interest in video production began after encountering the world of show business in New York. He joined NHK in 1982 and has been producing and directing television…

Mayama Tomoko

Mayama Tomoko is a Japanese actress and quilt writer born in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo. She graduated from Tokyo Kasei University Women's High School. Her husband is director Ninagawa Yukio, and her daughter is photographer Ninagawa Mika. Her grandfather is actor Tanizaki Juro. Her nieces are actresses Ninagawa…

Oyama Katsuhiro

Oyama Katsuhiro is a Japanese actor.

Arashi Kanzaburo

Arashi Kanzaburo is a Japanese actor.

Tachibana Mikiya

Tachibana Mikiya is a Japanese cinematographer.

Yoshi Ikuzo

Yoshi Ikuzo is the stage name of Yoshihito Kamata, a Japanese famous enka singer-songwriter. Enka is a popular genre akin to Japanese folk music or blues music in the Western world. He has released several popular albums. Amongst his most famous hits are "Sake-yo", "Suika", and "Yuki Guni". (Source:…

Hori Ben

Hori Ben is an actor and former child actor from Tokyo. In 1974 he joined Tokyo Kid Brothers while attending Takushoku University, and left after performing in New York and London. In 1975 he participated in the founding of Mr. Slim Company with Shinsui Sansho, Kasai Kenji, Makigami Koichi, and others.…

Gen Hachiro

Mori Seiji

Mori Seiji is a Japanese actor.

Momotaro-zamurai

7.0

Momotaro must save the life of his brother. The film is an early collaboration of Misumi Kenji and Ichikawa Raizo, who will work together until Ichikawa's death. A ronin walking down Kuramae-dori in Asakusa, wearing…

Volunteering for Villainy

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town. (Source: TMDb)

Onmitsu Kenshi

7.6

The adventures of a roving samurai detective/spy, Akikusa Shintaro whose real identity is Matsudaira Nobuchiyo - the older half-brother of Tokugawa Ienari, the 11th Tokugawa shogun, who is still a minor. Because he…

Bancho Sarayashiki: Okiku to Harima

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that’s based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki. (Source: Letterboxd)

The Lost Swordship

7.2

A golden-masked clan master, who had killed many top fighters, was determined to acquire an invincible sword manual so as to rule the martial world. Hence, he pursued a swordsman who possessed the manual, but the latter…

Surona Bushi ni Shite Kure 〜 Kyoto Satsueijo Rapusodi 〜

9.0

Aired on NHK BS.

Nervous Propose

6.4

Kamiya, a psychotherapeutic counselor at a business, is troubled by a platonic love triangle as he consults with Kaji, a security guard, and Masato, a young, good-looking employee. Jun, a building cleaner, learns of…

Choukosoku! Sankin-kotai

7.2

Naito Masaatsu, lord of the Yunagaya Domain, an area with only 15,000 citizens which also happens to control a valuable gold mine. When a scheme is hatched by Matsudaira Nobutoki, a member of the shogun’s elder council,…

Brain Fluid Explosion Girl

6.5

Hana Icii attends a school that she admired since she was a child. One day, she wakes up and finds herself locked in a cage with her classmates. They are forced to take part in a survival game using their cellphones.…

Tenchijin

7.7

The 48th NHK Taiga drama is Tenchijin. The story centers on Naoe Kanetsugu, a loyal and devoted samurai in Echigo Province in the 16th century. Kanetsugu was trained in his early childhood by Uesugi Kenshin and after…