Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

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

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

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...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

1945 Japanese movie

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...

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.

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.