Chiezo Kataoka Movies

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

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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.

1950 Japanese movie

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...

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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...

Toyama Kinshiro, a commissioner from northern Edo, goes undercover to unravel the mystery behind a series of murders. Kinshiro, played by Kataoka...

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

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

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...

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

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

Silent jidaigeki film

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