Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister...

The Siege of Osaka

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,...

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

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...

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

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...

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

The vast majority of the commercial films made by Kinugasa in the 1920s have, like almost all Japanese films of the period, been lost. Even a...

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.