Chiezo Kataoka Movies

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

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

Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mercy of corrupt officials. Intent on fulfilling a...

Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and...

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...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

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

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

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

After his home gets attacked by a rival gang, underworld boss Masamichi Omatsu finds himself in a tangle of familial and criminal obligations.

A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

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

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...

1962 Japanese movie

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...