Chiezo Kataoka Movies

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

1962 Japanese movie

The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying...

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Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

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...

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

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.

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...

During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, Sarashina Danjo. Ten years later, Lord Ogata's...

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

A master hunter is driven to defiance after a tyrannical magistrate's cruelty pushes his community to its breaking point. His expert skill with a bow...

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