Teinosuke Kinugasa Movies

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...

Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of...

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

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...

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...

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

1945 Japanese movie

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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

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.

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

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

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.