Kōichi Katsuragi Movies

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

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

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...

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

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

Expressing the distinct personalities of the three daughters.

1956 Daiei movie

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...

A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

The first film produced by Daiei.

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

A young judoka investigates the mysterious death of his best friend.

Biographical film about bacteriologist Dr. Hideyo Noguchi.