Chiezo Kataoka Movies

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

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....

Japanese mystery film.

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

1942 Japanese movie

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by...

Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...

As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it...

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

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...

A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

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