Chiezō Kataoka Movies

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...

Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate)....

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

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

1950 Japanese movie

A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

1945 Japanese movie

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the...

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

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

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...

Tomu Uchida's Gyakushu Gokumon Toride is a masterpiece which treats class struggle in the end of Samurai era(it's a fiction). The story is based on...

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating...