Takao Kataoka

Haru no Sakamichi

The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

Nemuri Kyoshiro

Starting out in Edo, as Kyoshiro travels west toward Kyoto, he encounters some of the most dangerous obstacles...

Oinochi Chōdai

The protagonist, Naito Samon, was secretly ordered by Tokugawa Ieyoshi, the 12th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shoguna...

Crescent Scarred Hatamoto

Saotome Mondonosuke, "Hatamoto" (direct servant of the shogun), a handsome man with a scar on his forehead in t...

The Last Ronin

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who aveng...

The Wicked

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves thro...

The Three Undelivered Letters

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her fam...

眠狂四郎無頼控

Sure Death

A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the...

Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death

Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On...

Beauty

Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki pe...

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter Special - Ghost Story of Tragic Love: Dance of the Folding Fan

This special chapter of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series was never turned into a videogram, but was broadcas...

Cinema Kabuki Ghost Story: Peony Lantern

Kabuki performance of the story “Peony Lantern”.

眠狂四郎円月殺法

Kabuki Actor Kataoka Nizaemon

Documentary film from Japan.

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