Chiezō Kataoka Movies

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...

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...

Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his master, Asano of Ako, committed seppuku,...

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

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.

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

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...

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...

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

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

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...

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement. Considered a...

Chogoro, the young master of a rice shop who receives sword lessons from Tetsusaburo Yamaoka, travels to the lawless Kanbei Onigawara family from...

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

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