Movies: Shôen Kataoka
- 2016
Natsumi's Firefly (2016)
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Natsumi wants to become a photographer. She takes a bike which her late father left behind and goes to a forest to find a firefly she saw with her father. In the forest, Natsumi meets old mother Yasu and old son Jizo. They run a general store. Natsum...
- 1937
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba (1937)
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The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in film, rakugo, kodan and on stage many times, in part because Nakayama later joined the famous 47 Ronin (Chushin...
- 1921
Jiraiya the Hero (1921)
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Jiraiya is some sort of super-ninja with superpowers. He can fly, he can avoid detection by turning himself into a toad, and he has some sort of ability to vanish....
- 1922
Shibukawa Bangorō (1922)
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A film on the life of Shibukawa Bangorō, the founder of the Shibukawa-ryū school of jūjutsu. To paraphrase Satō Tadao’s blurb on the back cover of the video, this is an important film for three reasons. 1. it is an almost perfectly well preserved cop...
- 1926
Jigoku ni ochita mitsuhide (1926)
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Directed by Kichiro Tsuji....