Chiezo Kataoka Movies

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

A whirlwind sweeps through Takadanobaba. The familiar fighter Yasubei stuns the city of Edo in this exhilarating tale of swordsmanship and human...

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating...

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it...

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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

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

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now under the rule of the evil Tanuma, the people...

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

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

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

1946 Japanese movie

In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him...

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.