Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent...

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

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,...

Period film from 1934.

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

In the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a prostitute.

When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister...

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

Japanese silent film from 1928, co-starring Chojiro Hayashi and up-and-coming actress Kinuyo Tanaka.

The vast majority of the commercial films made by Kinugasa in the 1920s have, like almost all Japanese films of the period, been lost. Even a...

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...

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa