Chiezō Kataoka Movies

1942 Japanese movie

A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

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...

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

1945 Japanese movie

The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by...

Silent jidaigeki film

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

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

Japanese mystery film.

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...