Akira Inoue

Every year on the fourth of January, Shobei’s soba restaurant serves “Sanada Soba”; soba noodles topped with grated spicy ...

Bandit leader “Night Rabbit” Kakuemon has always kept the rule to “never kill, never rape, never steal from the poor”, ...

Heizo “The Demon” investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This ...

An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a ...

Edo is rocked by the news that a duel to the death is to be held at Takadanobaba, the famed site of a bloody revenge fought by Nakayama Yasubei, ...

The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their ...

Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.

Tamura Masakazu returns as Nemuri Kyoshiro for the fourth and final time. Gensai, an eccentric Ukiyoe artist, urgently requests Kyoshiro to kill ...

In the Tosa in the early Showa era, the fourth series of Tempo active series that depicts the activity of the woman trainer involved in the ...

At the end of the Heian period, Musashibo Benkei, a warrior monk who hated the Heike clan, was humiliated by his fellow monks and left the ...

In the continuing adventures of Nemuri Kyoshiro, noted film actor Tamura Masakazu stars again as the red-haired ronin with foreign blood in his ...

Sakai Nobunari an Elder in ‘Honmaru’ (or the main enclosure) and Mizuno Tadakuni an Elder in ‘Nishinomaru’ (or the ...

A rare grouping of the three Tamura brothers, Masakazu, Takahiro, and Ryu highlight this exciting tale of a series of attempts on the life of ...

A noble samurai serving the Shogun as ‘Kogi Kaishaku-nin’ (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to ...

During Tenpo period, Bakuhu announced a law regulating expenditures in order to improve the financial situation. However, Doshin of a government ...

One day, Mori no Ishimatsu (Kankuro Nakamura

Widow Sugita moves into a second-hand house and starts living alone. However, when she sees a bill brought by the electricity company’s ...

The original novel is by Shugoro Yamamoto. It depicts a friendship that transcends social status and age, featuring the captivating monologue by ...

Yuki Kimura, a company president’s secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president’s recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up ...

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On ...

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires “Kage” to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). ...

When the ‘Lowly Ronin’ helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they ...

At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his ...

A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates ...

Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against the Yakuza family, which leads to the murder of ...

Hamakichi was a former detective respected by everyone but he was arrested after he helped a criminal flee for money, which he needed for his ...

Sakane, a police officer nicknamed “Kasajiro,” remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa ...