Cast: Eijirô Kataoka

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Isao Kimura · Minoru Chiaki · Shinobu Chihara · Kogiku Hanayagi

Plot Jiro Sano (Chiezo Kataoka) grew up a good man, financially well set, & loved by his company's employees. But he has remained unable to find a wife, due to his...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Sô Yamamura · Kenji Imai · Eitarô Shindô

Plot Takakura is a young gang boss tricked by the villainous Toru Abe. His underlings, lead by Chiezo Kataoka, start planning for revenge after Takakura dies in jail.

Direction Tomiyasu Ikeda

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Ranko Hanai · Sannosuke Fujikawa · Shunzaburo Iba

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Chiyonosuke Azuma · Nobuko Otowa · Chojuro Kawarasaki · Yoshizaburo Arashi

Plot A period-film in which the famous Kabuki play Narukami was brought throughly up to date. Somewhat in the manner of Henry V, the film opens with a reconstruction of a...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Mitsuko Miura · Michiko Ai · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Mitsugorô Bandô · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Chikage Awashima · Hiromi Hanazono · Kensaku Hara · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Plot Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of two kabuki actresses who helped him...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Kusuo Abe · Kyoko Aoyama · Mikijiro Hira

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Ryuji Kita · Sonosuke Sawamura · Haruo Tanaka

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Sumiko Hidaka · Yûnosuke Itô · Kunio Kaga · Eijirô Kataoka

Plot An enclave of Heike descendants has lived on a mountain in isolation for centuries and is reputed to abduct young women from surrounding communities for human sacrifice, but their real...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ken Takakura · Sô Yamamura · Mitsuko Miura

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Eitarô Shindô · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Chiyonosuke Azuma

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Mitsusaburô Ramon · Hiroshi Ueda · Eijirô Kataoka

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Minoru Chiaki · Kyôko Kishida · Kotaro Satomi · Isao Yamagata

Direction Toshikazu Kôno

Cast Shinobu Araki · Teruyo Asagumo · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Hideaki Onishi

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Chiezô Kataoka · Kotaro Satomi · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now under the rule of the evil Tanuma, the people look to Murasaki...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Tatsuya Ishiguro · Sonosuke Sawamura · Hisako Tsukuba · Tomisaburô Wakayama

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Yumiko Hasegawa · Kunio Kaga · Eijirô Kataoka

Direction Kinnosuke Fukada

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Shinobu Chihara · Eijirô Kataoka · Kunio Kaga

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Sonosuke Sawamura · Eijirô Kataoka · Haruo Tanaka

Plot Played to the hilt by Misora Hibari in a delightful performance highlighted by singing, dancing, and swordplay with a unique story within a story twist that starts to unfold in...