Chiezo Kataoka Movies

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

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

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...

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

Fifth delivery in the Tarao Bannai series, following the "master detective with seven faces" who uses his signature disguise to solve crimes with a...

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

The Purple-Hooded Man, Japan's version of Robin Hood, tries to uncover a corruption scandal in Edo era Japan.

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

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...

1945 Japanese movie

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

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...

Toyama Kinshiro, a commissioner from northern Edo, goes undercover to unravel the mystery behind a series of murders. Kinshiro, played by Kataoka...

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....

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka