Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

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

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

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...

The Siege of Osaka

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...

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

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

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

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.