Chiezō Kataoka Movies

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

The Purple-Hooded Man, Japan's version of Robin Hood, tries to uncover a corruption scandal in Edo era Japan.

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never...

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of...

1950 Japanese movie

During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, Sarashina Danjo. Ten years later, Lord Ogata's...

The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying...

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.

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

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...