Eitarō Shindō Movies

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intrigue and murder against the backdrop of the...

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the...

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...

Japanese mystery film.

Film adaption by Kenji Misumi

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

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

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...

Bored Hatamoto film #17

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...

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