Chiezō Kataoka Movies

This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement. Considered a...

Tomu Uchida's Gyakushu Gokumon Toride is a masterpiece which treats class struggle in the end of Samurai era(it's a fiction). The story is based on...

1946 Japanese movie

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

1945 Japanese movie

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.”...

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried...

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

1942 Japanese movie

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.