Chiezo Kataoka Movies

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.

An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable...

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

1950 Japanese movie

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...

In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him...

"Masayoshi Ryanko" jumps into the den of the underworld swirling with smuggling and murder, and defeats the culprit with a heart-pounding pistol.

1942 Japanese movie

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

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

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 samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

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