Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

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...

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

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

Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn...

Period film from 1934.

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...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

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...