Chiezō Kataoka Movies

1946 Japanese movie

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

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...

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...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

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

1945 Japanese movie

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

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...

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

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...

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

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.