Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents and opponents clashed over the construction of...

1959 Japanese movie

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of...

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

The Siege of Osaka

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Period film from 1934.

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

In the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a prostitute.