Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...

Period film from 1934.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the...

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads,...

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

The Siege of Osaka

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the...

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.