Chiezo Kataoka Movies

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

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

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

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...

1950 Japanese movie

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

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...

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...

1945 Japanese movie

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

The third 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.

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

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

The film vividly shows the misadventures of Oishi Kuranosuke and the human dramas inside the castle, which lead to the surrender of Ako Castle after...

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