Eitarō Shindō Movies

Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesitant to get married because he had to feed his...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

1940 Japanese movie

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a...

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

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...

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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