Eitarō Shindō Movies

1950s Japanese comedy.

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

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...

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

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

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested...

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

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

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

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

The first 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...

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

Japanese noir.

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they...