Chiezo Kataoka Movies

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

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...

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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

Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his master, Asano of Ako, committed seppuku,...

Jidaigeki film, only a fragment remains of the original film.

This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement. Considered a...

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

1945 Japanese movie

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.

Silent jidaigeki film

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

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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