Kōichi Katsuragi Movies

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took...

A traveling gambler becomes duty-bound to the wife and child of the yakuza he had slain and desires to leave the criminal life for good. However,...

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...

A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

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

Directed by Kiyomatsu Hosoyama.

Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth...

Directed by Minoru Murata.