Eitarō Shindō Movies

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 kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

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

Japanese noir.

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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

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

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

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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