Eitarō Shindō Movies

1950s Japanese comedy.

During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed...

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...

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

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

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

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

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the...

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

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

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

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