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Okada Masaki
Okada Masaki, born in Edogawa-Ku, Tokyo, is a Japanese actor managed by Stardust Promotion. Okada was scouted in Harajuku when he was in the second year of junior high school. Initially, he refused the offer as he was absorbed in the activities of the basketball club. After entering high school he contacted…
Murakami Hiroaki
Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions. Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as…
Sakamoto Ryuichi
Sakamoto Ryuichi was a Japanese musician, activist, composer, record producer, writer, singer, pianist, and actor formerly based in Tokyo and New York. Beginning his career in 1978 as a member of the electronic music group "Yellow Magic Orchestra", Sakamoto served on keyboards and sometimes vocals.…
Wada Shu
Wada was born in Kagoshima prefecture. After graduating from Haiyuza Theatre Company, he formed the Yoru no Ki theater troupe in 1980. He appeared in the Katsu Kaishū and Musashi Musashi NHK Taiga dramas, the Nurse no Oshigoto and Aibō live-action television series, and Odoru Daisōsasen THE MOVIE.…
Kudo Asuka
Asuka Kudo is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Tokyo Gakkan High School and Tokyo University of Agriculture. He is represented by Papado. His father is a former professional baseball player(pitcher) Kimiyasu Kudo and his younger sister is professional golfer Haruka Kudo. He is the first and eldest…
James Miki
James Miki was a Japanese screenwriter, writer, director, and former singer from Mukden City, Fengtien Province, Manchuria, from where he moved to Ibaraki City, Osaka Prefecture when he was in elementary school. In the second year of junior high school, his father died suddenly of heart disease. After…
Matsumoto Hakuo II
The 9th generation Matsumoto Koshiro was born in Tokyo, Japan. A graduate of Waseda University and a versatile actor, Matsumoto Koshiro IX has performed extensively in Kabuki and Western stage plays. He made his stage debut in 1945, at the age of three, under the name Matsumoto Kintaro II, and took…
Yamamoto Shouma
Yamamoto Shouma, born Yamamoto Kosuke in Osaka Prefecture, is a Japanese actor and voice actor. His first major role was as Tsubasa Yamagatana/Dan the Knight of the White Night in Garo Special: Byakuya no Maju. Yamamoto later portrayed Seiji Hayami in Cutie Honey: The Live. He also portrayed Takato…
Yorozuya Kinnosuke
Yorozuya Kinnosuke was a Japanese kabuki actor. Born Ogawa Kinichi, son of kabuki actor Nakamura Tokizo III, he entered kabuki and became the first in the kabuki tradition to take the name Nakamura Kinnosuke. He took on his guild name Yorozuya as his surname in 1971. In addition to his kabuki activity,…
Adipati Dolken
Adipati Koesmadji or better known as Adipati Dolken is an Indonesian actor and model of mixed German and Javanese descent. Adipati gained prominence when he appeared in a supporting role on the soap opera Kepompong (Indonesian: Cocoon), which aired on SCTV from 2008 to 2009. He was later cast in Putih…
Hachidai Shogun Yoshimune
Japanese Drama - 1995, 48 episodes
The 34th NHK Taiga Drama portrays the life of Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1716 - 1745).
Hojo Tokimune
Japanese Drama - 2001, 49 episodes7.4
The 40th NHK Taiga Drama is Hojo Tokimune. It tells the dramatic and turbulent life of young shikken Hojo Tokimune, and his successful defense of Japan from invasion by Mongolia in the 1200's. It is a tragic story…
Mori Motonari
Japanese Drama - 1997, 50 episodes7.6
The 36th NHK Taiga Drama is Mori Motonari. This series chronicles the life of Mori Motonari, a warlord of the early 1500s who stood at the vanguard of the Warring States era. All Japanese school textbooks contain the…
Yoshitsune
Japanese Drama - 2005, 49 episodes7.7
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…
Nobunaga
Japanese Drama - 1992, 49 episodes7.8
The 30th NHK Taiga Drama is Nobunaga: King of Zipangu. On March 23, 1585, Japanese Christian envoys visited Pope Gregory XIII at the Papal Court in Rome, Italy. The drama begins 45 years earlier - in 1540 outside Lisbon,…
Naotora: The Lady Warlord
Japanese Drama - 2017, 50 episodes7.7
NHK's 56th taiga drama series. During the Sengoku period, the Ii family governs the Totomi region. Due to many past wars, there are no more male successors left to become a lord. Naotora Ii, the only daughter of the…
Shinsengumi!
Japanese Drama - 2004, 49 episodes7.8
The 43rd NHK Taiga Drama is Shinsengumi!. The arrival of Commodore Perry's "Black Ships" rudely awakened Japan from 300 years of peaceful isolation from the world. Men set their eyes beyond Japan and began to demand…
Ryukyu no Kaze
Japanese Drama - 1993, 23 episodes8.0
The 31st NHK Taiga Drama is Ryukyu no Kaze. This is part one of a three-part renzoku drama series (Homura Tatsu, the 32nd Taiga Drama (1993) is part two, and Hana no Ran (1994) is part three.)
Toshiie and Matsu
Japanese Drama - 2002, 49 episodes8.0
The 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's life and career intertwined with the three great generals of Japanese history-Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu. With political…
