560 results found for: Minamoto Yoshitsune
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Japanese Drama - 1966, 52 episodes6.0
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…
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…
Ogata Ken
Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama. He won the award for best actor at the 26th Blue Ribbon Awards for Okinawan Boys.[1]
In television,…
Ichikawa Somegoro VIII
He was born into a family of hereditary Kabuki actors known since the Edo period. He is the eldest son of famous kabuki actor Matsumoto Koshiro X (Ichikawa Somegoro VII at the time), his grandfather is Matsumoto Koshiro IX. In June 2007, he made his debut performance at the Kabukiza Theatre in the play…
Fuji Sumiko
Fuji Sumiko is a Japanese actress and moderator from Gobo City, Wakayama Prefecture. She received the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2007, and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays in the spring of 2016. She graduated from Osaka Municipal Honjo Junior High School. She became a fan of Takarazuka Revue…
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,…
Kataoka Ichitaro
Kataoka was born on February 13, 1877 to Hikoemon HARASAWA, the master sculptor for Kyoto Imperial Palace, at Harasawa's house on the corner of Sakaimachi-dori and Marutamachi-dori streets, right across from the Imperial Palace. Upon his father's death in 1881, he was adopted by Seizaburo TSUKAMOTO.…
Hasegawa Kazuo
Hasegawa Kazuo was a Japanese actor born in Rokujizo, Horiuchi-mura, Kii-gun, Kyoto Prefecture. His old stage names are Hayashi Chomaru and Hayashi Chojiro. He entered Shochiku from the Kabuki world and became a leading actor in the Shochiku period dramas. After that, he moved to Toho and Daiei and…
Onoe Kuroemon II
In May 1925, at Fukuyama Katsugi in Ichimura-za "Sukeroku", he took the first stage under the name of the first Ukon Onoe , and in October 1940, in Kabuki-za "Meeting" Goro took the name of the second generation Kuroemon Onoe . In July 1949, his father, Kikugoro, died of illness, and when his disciples…
Akutagawa Hiroshi
Akutagawa Hiroshi was a Japanese actor. He was the eldest son of writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke and brother of composer Akutagawa Yasushi. (Source: MyDramaList)
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Japanese Movie - 19527.0
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…
Fuji ni Tatsu Wakamusha
Japanese Movie - 1962
~~ 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.
Kamakura Sandaiki
Japanese Movie - 1909
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…
Lovely Unlovely
Japanese Drama - 2019, 10 episodes7.3
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
Japanese Drama - 2022, 48 episodes7.7
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
Japanese Drama - 2025, 8 episodes7.4
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"…
