Eitarō Shindō Movies

Bored Hatamoto movie #11

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

During the seventh-year memorial service for Katsugoro and Genji, Ikari Genji himself emerged from the coffin brought in by the hearse seeking...

1950 Japanese movie

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

A 1943 film.

A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful spirit. This film marked the turning point in...

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet...

1963 Japanese movie

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends...

Japanese war movie

Japanese comedy film.

A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.