Chiezo Kataoka Movies

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...

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

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...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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.

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

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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

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

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

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

Silent jidaigeki film

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

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

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...