Eitarō Shindō Movies

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

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

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...

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Japanese noir.

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...

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

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

When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in...