Chiezo Kataoka Movies

First part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th...

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When...

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears,...

It's an extravaganza of entertainment as famous magistrate in disguise, Toyama no Kinshiro attempts to confront the elusive thief known as the ...

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...

Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will...

While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Meanwhile, one of his...