Eitarō Shindō Movies

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.

The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious...

1950s Japanese comedy.

Revenge breeds revenge. Ikuta Denpachiro, the martial arts instructor of the Honda family in Koriyama, lost a fight to the young samurai Enjo...

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital...

A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they...

Umon goes on an investigation to unveil the murderer known as Red Lizard.

In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....