Chiezo Kataoka Movies

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...

Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.”...

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

Chiezo Kataoka grew up as a Magician's apprentice in America and no prison can hold him!

First film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

The third in a trilogy of Kunisada Chuji films by Hiroshi Inagaki.

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

Based on the original story by Seishi Yokomizo, House of Spider Webs is a gorgeous historical drama thriller starring Kinnosuke Nakamura and directed...

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

1950 Japanese movie

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...

Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and...

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.