Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

Period film from 1934.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

1959 Japanese movie

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

When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

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...

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

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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...

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa