Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

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...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

1945 Japanese movie

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

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

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...

In the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a prostitute.

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

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.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.