Movies

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

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

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Japanese silent film from 1928, co-starring Chojiro Hayashi and up-and-coming actress Kinuyo Tanaka.

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

1945 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...

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa