Best Okamoto
"Samurai Assassin" is a 1965 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. It stars Toshiro Mifune as a wandering ronin who becomes entangled in the complex political conspiracies of the late Edo period. The narrative builds toward the historical Sakuradamon Incident of 1860, an assassination...
Red Lion is a 1969 Japanese historical comedy-drama directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune. Set during the Boshin War and the transition from the Tokugawa shogunate to imperial rule, it follows a peasant who joins a political army and returns to his home village wearing the unit's s...
Japanese light novel by Kota Nozomi, published from 2012 and adapted into a 2014 anime by Trigger, in which five high-school students spontaneously gain supernatural powers but continue living mundane school lives rather than becoming heroes.
