Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

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...

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the...

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads,...

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

The Siege of Osaka

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

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Period film from 1934.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...