Eitarō Shindō Movies

A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu” himself.

1949 drama film

All is not well in an a small fishing village not far from Edo. Mysterious goings-on are happening at Echigoya’s Red Crane Mansion, and when...

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

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

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

Based on the original story by Seishi Yokomizo, House of Spider Webs is a gorgeous historical drama thriller starring Kinnosuke Nakamura and directed...

This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside...

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

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

A film adaptation of the original novel by Kazuo Dan. This exciting film, set in Asia on the eve of violent changes, tells the story of a young man...

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

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...