Chiezo Kataoka Movies

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...

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...

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

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.

Fifth delivery in the Tarao Bannai series, following the "master detective with seven faces" who uses his signature disguise to solve crimes with a...

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

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

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

1945 Japanese movie

Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...

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

Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate)....

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who...

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never...