Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

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...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

Period film from 1934.

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their...

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...

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...

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

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,...

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

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

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

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...