Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

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

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...

1959 Japanese movie

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...

Period film from 1934.

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

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

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

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

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.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa