Chiezō Kataoka Movies

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried...

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

Original work by Yokomizo Seishi. The third part of Kindaichi Kosuke's story, which was collected by Chie Kataoka.

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The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

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.

A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.

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

While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Meanwhile, one of his...

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

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encounters another great swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi.

Fifth delivery in the Tarao Bannai series, following the "master detective with seven faces" who uses his signature disguise to solve crimes with a...

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.