Kōichi Katsuragi Movies

Adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel whit the same name. It is perversely erotic relationship between a young salaryman and his teenage wife whom...

A lantern with a large sum of money hidden in it was sold without the owner’s knowledge. The honest lantern shop owners find themselves in a...

Expressing the distinct personalities of the three daughters.

1956 Daiei movie

A comedic retelling of the legendary encounter between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamato Musashi.

The first film produced by Daiei.

A mysterious Komusō monk suddenly appears to stand up to the yakuza who are tormenting innocent townspeople.

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

A spearman who had long admired the samurai rises up after learning of cruelty of the samurai class.

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...

Depicting the lives and spirit of geisha during and after the war.

A thrilling detective period drama set in the streets of Edo—a world of intrigue, conspiracy, romance, and turmoil—where a thief as agile...

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

It was a sanatorium in the highlands. Patients such as Totsuka, Hirota, and Hashida were battling their illnesses under the devoted care of Michiko,...

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