| WATANABE | Japanese film and TV actor who starred in The Last Samurai and Memoirs of a Geisha. Ken _ (8) |
| ROCKHUDSON | American film and TV actor who starred in Giant (1956) |
| STEPHEN | ___ Graham, actor who guest-starred in the last series of Line Of Duty (7) |
| ANNA | ___ Maxwell Martin, actress who guest-starred in the last series of Line Of Duty (4) |
| CHERRYORBACH | Broadway and TV actor who's fond of fruit pie? |
| ANIME | Japanese film and TV style (5) |
| ANIMES | Japanese film and TV animations (6) |
| DELAMARE | English author of works including The Listeners (poetry collection, 1912) and Memoirs of a Midget (novel, 1921) (6,224) |
| JOHNTHAW | TV actor who starred opposite Dennis Waterman and Kevin Whately in police dramas |
| NOBU | ___ Matsuhisa, Japanese celebrity chef and restaurateur who has appeared in the films Casino, Austin Powers: Goldmember and Memoirs of a Geisha |
| JOHNSIMM | TV actor who starred as Sam Tyler in Life on Mars |
| WINSTONE | Film and TV actor born in London in 1957, Ray -------- (8) |
| GODZILLA | Monster in a 2023 Japanese film (... and 36 other films) |
| THEGULAG | History and memoir by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the first volume of which was published in 1973 (3,5,1 |
| HARAKIRI | Act in "The Last Samurai" |
| JACKLORD | TV actor who lived, appropriately, in Hawaii |
| KUROSAWA | Influential Japanese director of Seven Samurai and Ran |
| KENDO | With its origins in the tradition of the samurai and meaning "way of the sword", a Japanese martial art and form of fencing using bamboo staves (5) |
| WALTER | And 24 English author of works including The Listeners (poetry collection, 1912) and Memoirs of a Midget (novel, 1921) (6,2,2,4) |
| CRUISE | Tom ___, Hollywood A-lister whose films include Top Gun, The Last Samurai and Minority Report (6) |
