Chiezō Kataoka Movies

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.

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

While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there been an array of major motion picture stars to bring...

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...

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.

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

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

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

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

1950 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...

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