Chiezo Kataoka Movies

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...

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

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

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

Master swordsman and loyal 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date...

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

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

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...

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...

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

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

The first film produced by Daiei.

A lighthearted and entertaining film that incorporates popuar songs into a period drama.

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

1962 Japanese movie

1942 Japanese movie

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.