Eiji Takagi

Oda Nobunaga (1940)

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and Shimura Takashi ...

Jinsei Gekijo: Zankyaku hen (1938)

1938 Theater of Life adaptation. ...

The Daughter of the Samurai (1937)

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long ...

Theater of Life: Youth Version (1936)

Musume juroku (1933)

Gion Shigure (1933)

Bangaku no issho (1933)

Yamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. ...

The Revenge Champion (1931)

Lost film, directed by Tomu Uchida. This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the samurai Bushido, which has become obsolete and turned into an empty form during the period of feudalism. ...

Zuku ôoka seidan mazo kaiketsu-hen (1931)

Fireworks (1931)

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating duel takes place on a night of fireworks. ...