Chiezo Kataoka Movies

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

Japanese mystery film.

The Purple-Hooded Man, Japan's version of Robin Hood, tries to uncover a corruption scandal in Edo era Japan.

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

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

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

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...

Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of...

The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island.

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

A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

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

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...

1950 Japanese movie