Chiezo Kataoka Movies

The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying...

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

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...

Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.

Chogoro, the young master of a rice shop who receives sword lessons from Tetsusaburo Yamaoka, travels to the lawless Kanbei Onigawara family from...

In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio of ronin who manipulate a group of spies, a...

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...

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

Jidaigeki film, only a fragment remains of the original film.

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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...

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.

Silent jidaigeki film

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An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the...