Eitarō Shindō Filmes

1960 Toei film.

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

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

A man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an unsuitable battle, intertwining with the chilling image of...

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

1958 Toei movie.

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

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

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital...

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.

The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious...

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...

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

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

Japanese noir.