Chiezō Kataoka Movies

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by...

While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there been an array of major motion picture stars to bring...

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...

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

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

The story of an unusual friendship between a vagabond, masterless samurai and a magistrate.

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Tomu Uchida's Gyakushu Gokumon Toride is a masterpiece which treats class struggle in the end of Samurai era(it's a fiction). The story is based on...

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...

1945 Japanese movie

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.

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

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.