Eitarō Shindō — Actor (63)
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Currents of Youth (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
青春の気流
director: Osamu Fushimizu actor: Setsuko Hara / Hisako Yamane …
other title: 青春の気流
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is less assertive as his bride.
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Ghost Ship Part 1 (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ゆうれい船 前篇
director: Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ryutaro Otomo …
other title: ゆうれい船 前篇
As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…
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The Lord Takes a Bride (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
鳳城の花嫁
director: Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Ryutaro Otomo / Yumiko Hasegawa …
other title: 鳳城の花嫁 / The Lord Takes A Bride
Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done, evil forces lurk in Edo and Gentaro must use his phenomenal sword skills to overcome the evil and find the love of his life. Another must have for fans of the great Otomo Ryutaro. And don't let the "silly" English title fool you, this is a great movie!
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Eight Views of Samurai (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
浪人八景
director: Tai Katō actor: Utaemon Ichikawa / Kōtarō Satomi …
other title: 浪人八景
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan.
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Island of Horrors (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
獄門島
director: Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Ryutaro Otomo …
other title: 獄門島
Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an isolated island in the Seto Inland Sea. Kosuke Kindaichi received a will from his friend Kito, which said, "Go to Gokumon Island to save my three younger sisters," and Kosuke went to Gokumon Island. Upon arriving at the residence of Quito, there were three beautiful sisters, a crazy father, a cousin of Sanae, and Kosuke plunged into a strange atmosphere. The film adaptation of the masterpiece novel of the same name by Seishi Yokomizo. Kyozo Kataoka plays Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, and Ryutaro Otomo plays Inspector Isokawa, who can be called Kindaichi's best partner.
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Detective Hibari: Secret of the Golden Coin (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ひばり捕物帖　自雷也小判
director: Kinnosuke Fukada actor: Hibari Misora / Kōtarō Satomi …
other title: ひばり捕物帖　自雷也小判
A princess finds life behind the protection of her brother and the high walls of the mansion to be quite dull, so she takes on another identity and lives in a small house in Edo pretending to be a singer but all the while she is actually a Shogunate Detective. Framed by a crooked magistrate for a crime she did not commit, Oshichi must clear her name of false charges after a woman helps to lead a prison break of the notorious Oshu Remnants. Meanwhile the magistrate, Lord Kai, conspires to be rid of her brother, Clan Elder, Lord Abe Iyo. Her only clue is an ornate dagger with a handle made of golden coins.
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Hell's Companion (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
地獄の底までつき合うぜ
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Chiezo Kataoka / So Yamamura …
other title: 地獄の底までつき合うぜ
During the seventh-year memorial service for Katsugoro and Genji, Ikari Genji himself emerged from the coffin brought in by the hearse seeking revenge
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The Chop Professor (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
チョップ先生
director: Eiichi Koishi actor: Eiji Okada / Yuriko Tashiro …
other title: チョップ先生
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 after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisawa's mother, Katsuko. When they entering a coffee shop run by Asako's best friend Hisako, Hisako misunderstood them as lovers...