Movies: Chiezo Kataoka

An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the competition....

Fifth delivery in the Tarao Bannai series, following the "master detective with seven faces" who uses his signature disguise to solve crimes with a double-barreled pistol....

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

A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and Kyoji Sugi....

1942 Japanese movie...

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

A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama....

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

In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio of ronin who manipulate a group of spies, a mysterious woman protecting a young lord, and the overwhelming roar of the Warring States captured on the ...

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...

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

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

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Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who devoted his life to protecting the shogun and fighting on the side of the Tokugawa. This tells the story of the Shinsengumi...

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

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

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

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. Considered a lost film....

1946 Japanese movie...

Toyama Kinshiro, a commissioner from northern Edo, goes undercover to unravel the mystery behind a series of murders. Kinshiro, played by Kataoka Chiezo, is most famous for the cherry blossom tattoos on his shoulder which he reveals at the moment of ...