Movies: Chiezo Kataoka

Japanese mystery film....

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

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox....

The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until subduing almost all his enemies, the lonely comprehension of knowing that he actually can not take over...

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

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Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi....

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 turns out that it was reaching Edo through smuggling purchased from foreign ships. However, Nagasaki...

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel....

Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When Lord Asano is unjustly executed, his loyal retainers strike back for revenge....

1945 Japanese movie...

The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family....

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka...

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to his family by the Shogun. The film critiques the inhumanity of feudal obligations, and Uchida’s direc...

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business....

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film....

Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.” Samon suspects that the drowning incident at the raw silk wholesaler Shinano-ya was the work of Maruya Rihei, a kimono w...

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A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs....