Yoshida Oolongta

Yoshida Oolongta is a Japanese comedian, actor, voice actor, writer, director, and member of the comedy trio Flamingo. While attending the Faculty of Economics at Nihon University, he belonged to the Rakugo Club. He belonged to the comedy duo "Yamemaida" (with Kazuhiro Yoshihara) formed by the New Staff…

Natsuki Yoko

Natsuki Yoko is an actress, born in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan. She started her career in the 1977 movie "Karate for Life". One of her television roles was as Osono, a ninja in the jidaigeki series Yoshimune Hyoubanki: Abarenbo Shogun. She also regularly appeared in Abare Hasshu Goyou Tabi. (Source:…

Higuchi Ichiyo

Higuchi Ichiyo was a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo, Japan, and the second daughter of Higuchi Noriyoshi, a low-ranking official in the Tokyo Prefecture. She is recognized as the first professional female writer in modern Japan. She began her education at Hongo Elementary School in 1877 but withdrew…

Ohkawa Hashizo II

Ohkawa Hashizo was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred Jidaigeki films from 1955 to 1967. Born in Tokyo, the son of a Yanagibashi geisha, he was soon adopted by the Ono family. His adoptive father was a kabuki actor named Ichikawa Takinoyo II, who trained him in dance and kabuki…

Nakao Akira

Nakao Akira was a Japanese actor, TV personality, and artist from Kisarazu, Chiba. Nakao was represented by the Furutachi Project agency. Nakao attended Chiba Prefectural Kisarazu High School from 1958 and entered Musashino Art University from 1961. Also in 1961, he was selected in the "5th Nikkatsu…

Kitaoji Kinya

Kitaoji Kinya, born February 23, 1943 in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, is a Japanese actor. He is the son of famous jidaigeki film star Utaemon Ichikawa, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences in Tokyo. Following his father's footsteps, Kitaoji's career is renowned…

Ikeda Takashi

Saikawa Kazuo

Okazaki Yukie

Former Japanese actress. She was born in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kobayashi Kenji

Kisaragi muso ken

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil plans of the Owari Clan's corrupt Lord. It's a colorful bunch, a drunk…

Takekurabe

6.0

In a downtown area of Meiji era Edo, in the Yoshiwara red light district, teenage boy Shinnyo, son of a Buddhist priest, helplessly witnesses not only his sister Ohana being sold as a concubine by his money-loving…

Kyoaku wa Nemurasenai Tokusou Kenji no Hyouteki

6.9

Tominaga is a public investigator, now investigating a big-name female politician Koshimura Miyabi, the Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare on allegations of receiving bribes. Koshimura is highly regarded to be…

Ooka Echizen Season 4

7.0

Ooka Echizen was an Edo magistrate who supported the Kyoho Reforms advanced by the eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune. Other than administrating the the town of Edo, Ooka also had a seat on the judicial council, managed…

Nogaremono Orin

6.5

It is the Edo period during the ninth Shogun Ieshige's reign. Orin's father was falsely accused of attempting to assassinate the former Shogun Yoshimune and in accordance with her father's wishes, Orin joins the secret…

Grim Reaper Case Book

7.6

Genshiro Kusaka, who runs a detective business in Edo city had a contract with Shinigami Juran. A “prostitute serial murder case” occurred at the Great Yukaku in Yoshiwara. How do both Genshiro and the Shinigami…

Ooka Echizen Season 8

His strong gaze as he confronts evil deeds is filled with a sense of justice, and his warm gaze as he casts it on good men and women of the town is cheerful and filled with love. During the time of the eighth Tokugawa…

Kakenai!?: Spinoff

7.3

"Is it okay to look for work just like this? What is the thing I wanted to do in my life?" Sengawa Shunya contemplates on his life while interacting with Yoshimaru family members. What will happen with the love journey…

Aoi Tori

7.4

A train station attendant falls in love with the wife of the son of a powerful community leader. When Yoshimori sees how unhappy Kahori is in her new marriage, he impulsively runs away with her and her 9-year-old daughter.…

Tajomaru: Avenging Blade

6.8

Set sometime in the late Muromachi period, Naomitsu Hatakeyama is the second son of the distinguished Hatakeyama family. His lifelong friend and love interest are both Ako-hime. When Ako-hime's father dies, Yoshimasa…