Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

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...

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

The Siege of Osaka

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...

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

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...

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

Period film from 1934.

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

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...

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

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.