Kataoka Chiezo

Kataoka Chiezo was a Japanese period drama star, who was active before and after the war. He is considered one of the six big stars in Japanese period dramas. After the war, he became an executive star of Toei and remained a front-line star until his death. His eldest son Motoharu and his daughter Chie…

Takamatsu Kinnosuke

Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Takamatsu acted in shinpa theater before joining Makino Film Productions in 1924. He left the studio in 1926 and joined director Kinugasa Teinosuke in the independent production of the avant-garde film A Page of Madness, playing the crucial role of the bearded inmate. He…

Namikata Eiji

Namikata Eiji was a Japanese actor.

Miyauchi Atsushi

Atsushi Miyauchi is a Japanese actor and voice actor.

Sasaki Akimitsu

award winning director

Senda Korenari

Japanese stage director, translator, and actor. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture. He is known mostly for founding the Haiyūza theatre company, and translating and directing the works of Bertolt Brecht in post-World War II Japan. He appeared in over 50 films between 1936 and 1970. His stage name comes…

Fujio Takashi

Ichi Ohmiya

Takahashi Koji

Takahashi Koji is a Japanese actor. While he was in Toyo University, Takahashi became a chauffeur of Miyaguchi Seiji, an actor of the theatrical company Bungakuza. In 1959, he joined Bungakuza and made his debut with the play Japan’s Deserted Island. In 1963, he played a role in the film "Mother"…

Higashiyama Chieko

Higashiyama Chieko was a Japanese stage and film actress. She appeared in more than sixty films from 1936 to 1967. Graduating from the girl's school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow. In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress and began…

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

6.0

The 4th NHK Taiga Drama is Minamoto no Yoshitsune. This is the first of two times NHK dedicated their Taiga drama to the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kamakura…

Gozonji Genshi Kozo

Fuji ni Tatsu Wakamusha

~~ Based on the life of Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝), a Japanese military commander and politician from the late Heian period to the early Kamakura period.

Yoshitsune

7.7

The 44th NHK Taiga Drama is about the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - 1189) was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of Japan. Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo. His…

Kamakura Sandaiki

It was in the Kamakura period that, Minamoto no Yoritomo of after the death Tokimasa Hojo , the orphans of Yoritomo Minamoto no Yoriie contesting Nigiro the shogunate of the real power in the neglected throne and Takatsuna…

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

7.0

In 1185, the Heike family fights against the Minamoto family. After a bloody naval battle in the Pacific Ocean, Yoshitsune Minamoto defeats the enemy and the survivors commit suicide. When the triumphant Yoshitsune…

Lovely Unlovely

7.3

Nakagawa Ayaka, Kihara Riko and Minamoto Yoshie work for a trading company’s general affairs department. They are all struggling with life in some way. Ayaka is terrible at expressing herself. Riko is inflexible…

Kamakura dono no 13 nin

7.7

Following the ascension to power of Taira no Kiyomori, the Minamoto clan is exiled. Minamoto no Yoritomo meets Masako, the sister of Hojo Yoshitoki and later marries her. Following this marriage, the gears of Yoshitoki's…

The Monster Within

7.4

This suspense story centers on Kajin Ayame, a lawyer with a promising future but who lives alone. The story begins when a beautiful and seductive man, Minamoto Iteya, appears before her. He believes that "love = possession"…