The straightforward samurai of the hatamoto class, Saotome Mondonosuke, who has a crescent-shaped scar on his forehead, is known as the "Boring Samurai" because of his idleness. Whenever any incident occurs, he appears in his flashy attire and punishes the evildoers with his fighting skills....
A story about a masked samurai who takes sides with the good and wipes out the evil. In the late Edo...
During the reign of the shogun, Iemitsu, an epidemic causes the population of men to greatly drop, l...
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not ju...
Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gang...
Kōchiyama Sōshun serves as a cha-bōzu (He is kind of tea man) in the administrative headquarters of ...
Shibusawa Eiichi was born in 1840 to a farmer’s family. He grew up helping his family with work, whi...
This is the story about the a very powerful Lady Kasuga who established Ooku the inner palace.
The 41st NHK Taiga Drama is Toshiie to Matsu. During the turbulent Warring States Era, one man's lif...
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency...
The 37th NHK Taiga Drama is Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The series focuses on the life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu...
Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the...
Byakkotai was part of Aizu's four-unit military, set up in the domain's drive to finalize its milita...
It has been twelve years since the Battle of Sekigahara. The Toyotomi family was sealed in Osaka Cas...
Izumo no Okuni was born about 1571. This time period in Japanese history was fraught with struggle. ...
Based on the jidaigeki novel, Semishigure, written by Fujisawa Shuhei. Duty and honor were the princ...
Tange Tenzen is made a vassal to the shogun. He is a master of the single long sword fighting style....
A story of Yagyu Jubei, master swordsman from the well-known Yagyu-Shinkage school in the Edo period...
After being carried in his mother’s womb for three years, Benkei is born with long hair and teeth an...
A wildly unusual story set in the earliest days of the Meiji era. The story centers around a gatheri...