Chiezo Kataoka Movies

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

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

Silent jidaigeki film

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

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