Chiezo Kataoka Movies

1945 Japanese movie

Fifth delivery in the Tarao Bannai series, following the "master detective with seven faces" who uses his signature disguise to solve crimes with a...

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...

Miyamoto Musashi is challenged by a series of opponents in this follow up to Miyamoto Musashi's Kongoin Ketto (1942, also called Nitoryu Kaigen) also...

1942 Japanese movie

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio of ronin who manipulate a group of spies, a...

Hiroshi Inagaki's first 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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...