Chiezo Kataoka Movies

1950 Japanese movie

Miyamoto Musashi is challenged by a series of opponents in this follow up to Miyamoto Musashi's Kongoin Ketto (1942, also called Nitoryu Kaigen) also...

Silent jidaigeki film

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their master's death.

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...

A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

The story of an unusual friendship between a vagabond, masterless samurai and a magistrate.

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

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...

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating...

"Masayoshi Ryanko" jumps into the den of the underworld swirling with smuggling and murder, and defeats the culprit with a heart-pounding pistol.

The third in a trilogy of Kunisada Chuji films by Hiroshi Inagaki.