Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

In the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a prostitute.

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

1945 Japanese movie

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

1959 Japanese movie

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the...

The vast majority of the commercial films made by Kinugasa in the 1920s have, like almost all Japanese films of the period, been lost. Even a...

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...