Eitarō Shindō Movies

A story about the nature of office workers today.

Bored Hatamoto film #20

1961 Toei comedy

International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

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

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

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

Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid...

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

One of the most popular history-based characters is back when Magistrate Saemonojo Toyama no Kinsan investigates the tragic shipwreck of the...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

After his home gets attacked by a rival gang, underworld boss Masamichi Omatsu finds himself in a tangle of familial and criminal obligations.

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

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

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

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.