Chiezo Kataoka Movies

1946 Japanese movie

An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the...

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.”...

1945 Japanese movie

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...

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

A man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an unsuitable battle, intertwining with the chilling image of...

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...

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

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

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

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

Silent jidaigeki film

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

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

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