Kōichi Katsuragi Movies

Depicting the lives and spirit of geisha during and after the war.

A film adaptation of the story “Gonzo and Sukejū” from a new perspective.

Adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel whit the same name. It is perversely erotic relationship between a young salaryman and his teenage wife whom...

A spearman who had long admired the samurai rises up after learning of cruelty of the samurai class.

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...

A yakuza bodyguard is persuaded by Ōhara Yūgaku to take the farmers’ side.

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took...

A ronin sets out on a journey with his horse, with no particular destination in mind. Re-released in 1953.

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall....

A tale of love and tears that blossomed in the shadow of the Seinan War.

1945 Japanese movie