Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

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

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

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

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...

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...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a...

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

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

Period film from 1934.

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...

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

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