Imperial Japan
List of TV shows and films set in Imperial Japan.
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- StarsTakeru SatohHaru KurokiSei AshinaA young man named Akiyama Tokuzo cannot find his passion for living. One day he tasted meat cutlet for the first time and have been absorbed to learn about Western style cuisine. He set out on a journey to Tokyo and sworn to be the greatest cook in the empire of Japan.
- StarsMasahiro MotokiAleksandr VeremyukHiroshi AbeThe 19th Century was a turbulent one for Japan. Enduring the throes of change brought about by the Meiji era, it still struggled to join the world and be considered a "civilized, modern nation." After 300 years, samurai turned to labor, farmers sought other industries, and technology became king. Saka no Ue no Kumo covers the later years of the Meiji, when Japan-still wrestling with its identity-fought the little discussed Russo-Japanese War.We join the story with brothers Akiyama Yoshifuru and Akiyama Saneyuki, and their friend, the poet Masaoka Shiki, as they face these travails with decided Japanese spirit.
- StarsGe HuKai WangMintao LiuStory of resistance, espionage, familial ties, friendship and romance in the Japanese-occupied Shanghai.
- StarsMasaharu FukuyamaShimba TsuchiyaMasaomi KondôThe story focuses on the life of Sakamoto Ryoma, who lived from 1835 to 1867. He was an important leader in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa Bakufu, eventually bringing about the Meiji Restoration.
- StarsMansai NomuraNanako MatsushimaSôsuke IkematsuThe Japanese adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
- StarsSamantha BondDaisuke RyûFumi DanIn 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a son. She carves out a life for herself in Japanese society, despite the hardships and ostracism she faces as both a Westerner and a woman.