Eitarō Shindō Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

1950s Japanese comedy.

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.

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

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

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

Japanese noir.

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

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