Eitarō Shindō Movies

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

Jidaigeki from 1940

The sixth episode of Hashizo Okawa's "Wakasama Samurai" catch series.

1950s Japanese comedy.

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

A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline.

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

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...

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

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss...

As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it...

Bored Hatamoto movie #11

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

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

Japanese noir.

Set in post-WWII Osaka, a young woman trapped working in a sordid lodging house run by her abusive stepfather falls for a visiting criminal in hopes...

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...