Esumi Eimei

Esumi Eimei was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He died of stomach cancer on August 22, 2004, at the age of 68. (Source: Wikipedia)

Oguri Shun

Shun Oguri is a Japanese actor, voice actor and film director, son of stage director Tetsuya Oguri, and the youngest of 3 siblings, including older brother Ryo, who is also an actor. He started in small roles as extra in the works in which his father and brother worked. He began his official acting…

Fukuda Toyo

Fukuda Toyo is a Japanese actress.

Kawai Genji

Kawai Genji was a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学) and initially worked for various electrical companies, including Oki Electric Industry (沖電気工業株式会社). After World War II, while serving in the General Headquarters…

Takada Toshie

Takada Toshie is a Japanese actress.

Nitani Hideaki

Nitani Hideaki was a Japanese actor born in Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Prefectural Higashi Maizuru High School (京都府立東舞鶴高等学校) and attended Doshisha University (同志社大学) but dropped out of the Department of English Literature. After leaving university,…

Hana Hajime

Hana Hajime was a Japanese actor. He was the leader of the comic jazz band The Crazy Cats, which featured such talent as Ueki Hitoshi and Tani Kei, and which starred in a series of film comedies (such as the "Irresponsible" (Musekinin) series at Toho) and in TV variety shows such as "Shabondama Holiday.…

Hasegawa Hatsunori

Hatsunori Hasegawa (長谷川初範, Hasegawa Hatsunori, born June 21, 1955, in Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese actor who is known for his role as Takeshi Yamato in the 1980 Ultraman 80 series. In this series, he is played the lead role as a school teacher who is also a UGM member.

Hashizume Isao

Hashizume Isao is a Japanese actor born in Higashisumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He is the representative of the theater group Yen and belongs to Yen Planning. In 1975, he participated in the founding of the theater group Yen with Akutagawa, Nakaya Noboru, Kishida Kyoko, and Arikawa Hiroshi.…

Emoto Akira

Akira Emoto is a Japanese actor from Chuo, Tokyo, Japan. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for the best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san. His wife is the…

Koi Yamabiko

It is the rule of Tsunayoshi Tokugawa, the fifth shogun. Tsunayoshi was young, and the real power of the country was held by the elder Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. At that time, there was a clan whose ancestor was Munenori…

The Rebel

6.5

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa. (Source: IMDb)

Kage Gari

7.0

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who…

The Forbidden Castle

Behind the victory of the Tokugawa side in the Battle of Sekigahara was the betrayal of Morimasa Ino, the lord of Nissaka, against the Osaka side. For Morimasa's son Umanosuke, his father's act of betrayal was a horrible…

Choshiro Tenka Gomen!

6.0

A thrilling historical drama in which Tadanaga Tokugawa's bereaved child, Choshiro Matsudaira, defeats the evil that infests the town of Edo. ~~ Adapted from a novel by Genzo Murakami.

Sekigahara

6.0

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies, Tokugawa Ieyasu arranges various political marriages to strengthen his position. Fearing that other feudal lords would join forces with him to wrest power from the Toyotomi, Hideyoshi's…

Oyako Daka

9.0

A father and son story set in the late Tokugawa era (ca. 1850). Since the gradual opening of Japan new knowledge and technology reaches the country. Young Rintaro's dream is to explore all the new things and he is…

Kumokiri Nizaemon

9.0

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there was a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also in the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money…

Hachidai Shogun Yoshimune

The 34th NHK Taiga Drama portrays the life of Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1716 - 1745).

Shin Abarenbo Shogun

7.5

The eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, fights against evil rampant in Edo while blending in with the common people as Tokuda Shinnosuke, the third son of a poor samurai retainer, commonly known as "Shin-san". The story…