Chiezo Kataoka Movies

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

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

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their master's death.

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

Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by...

1942 Japanese movie

1950 Japanese movie

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

As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it...

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...

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

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In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the proviso that if the prisoner does not return...

1945 Japanese movie