Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

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

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

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

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...

1945 Japanese movie

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent...

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...

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

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