Chiezo Kataoka Movies

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...

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

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th...

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...

The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious...

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...

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a...

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there been an array of major motion picture stars to bring...

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

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

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