Eitarō Shindō Movies

The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the lovely Onaka from a terrible lifestyle. Starting...

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...

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

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

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

1950s Japanese comedy.

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

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

Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.

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

Japanese noir.

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

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

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.