Chiezo Kataoka Movies

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...

Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.”...

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

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

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

A man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an unsuitable battle, intertwining with the chilling image of...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

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

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

In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the proviso that if the prisoner does not return...

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...

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.