Chiezo Kataoka Movies

Japanese mystery film.

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...

Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now under the rule of the evil Tanuma, the people...

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

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

First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to...

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...

Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of the...

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

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...

Based on the original story by Seishi Yokomizo, House of Spider Webs is a gorgeous historical drama thriller starring Kinnosuke Nakamura and directed...

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

After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by...

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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

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