Eitarō Shindō
Acting • Born 1899-11-10 – Died 1977-02-18
Biography
Eitarō Shindō (1899–1977) was a Japanese film actor. His real name was Tatsugoro Shindo. After working as a stage actor, he entered the film industry and appeared in a wide range of films, appearing in as many as 620 works. He was a regular in Kenji Mizoguchi's films, such as Sansho the Bailiff, The Tale of Chikamatsu, and Street of Shame, and played villainous roles in Toei period dramas . In later years, he moved to television dramas , gaining popularity for his roles in family dramas such as Oyaji Taiko. In 1976 he was hospitalized for heart disease and died of a myocardial infarction at Denenchofu Central Hospital on December 18, 1977. He was 78 years old.
Filmography
273 credits
Five Men of Edo
Movie • 1951
Gonhei
Sansho the Bailiff
Movie • 1954
Sanshô dayû
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
Movie • 1963
Keishiro Murakami
次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Movie • 1962
Drunken Angel
Movie • 1948
Takahama
Reminiscence
Movie • 1953
Shadow Over Fuji
Movie • 1957
The Adventures of Chuji
Movie • 1957
Denbei Sagamiya
Island of Horrors
Movie • 1949
Kihei
Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
Movie • 1958
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Movie • 1954
Ishun
G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
Movie • 1950
The Eve of the Chinese Festival
Movie • 1962
Street of Shame
Movie • 1956
Kurazô Taya
The Life of Oharu
Movie • 1952
Kahe Sasaya
Osaka Elegy
Movie • 1936
Yoshizo Fujino
新遊侠伝
Movie • 1951
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
Movie • 1951
お洒落狂女
Movie • 1952
Yoshibei Nakakumaya
Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Movie • 1951
Mondo Tani
Case of a Young Lord 6: Mermaid Murder Case
Movie • 1957
Miss Oyu
Movie • 1951
Kusaemon
Taira Clan Saga
Movie • 1955
Banboku
The Woman in the Rumor
Movie • 1954
Yasuichi Harada
Eight Views of Samurai
Movie • 1958
Heat and Mud
Movie • 1950
The Lord Takes a Bride
Movie • 1957
Nagano
A Devil of a Gentleman
Movie • 1963
The Fiery Magistrate
Movie • 1956
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
Movie • 1959
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship
Movie • 1956
Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain
Movie • 1962
Koina no Ginpei
Movie • 1954
A Chivalrous Spirit
Movie • 1958
Hell's Companion
Movie • 1959
Orders from Hell
Movie • 1964
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Movie • 1955
Kao Li-hsi
Sisters of the Gion
Movie • 1936
Kudo
Revenge
Movie • 1964
Koetsu
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２
Movie • 1961
Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Letter of Challenge
Movie • 1955
Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord
Movie • 1950
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
Movie • 1939
Ittetsu Inaba
Manchurian Sunset
Movie • 1956
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
Movie • 1955
The Horse Boy
Movie • 1957
Yakuza Official
Movie • 1962
Ghost Story on Passage
Movie • 1958
Sisters of Nishijin
Movie • 1952
治郎吉格子
Movie • 1952
仁吉
The Story of Shunkin
Movie • 1954
振袖釼法
Movie • 1955
堀源太左衛門
Enoken ohako rakuda no Ma-san
Movie • 1950
Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
Movie • 1949
Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery
Movie • 1964
Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Movie • 1963
Currents of Youth
Movie • 1942
Yuijima
大当り男一代
Movie • 1956
柏屋万兵衛
Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru
Movie • 1954
The Sun
Movie • 1953
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion
Movie • 1954
はだか大名 後篇
Movie • 1952
はだか大名 前篇
Movie • 1952
花吹雪男祭り
Movie • 1952
Red-Lacquered Sword
Movie • 1956
Ancient Coins
Movie • 1956
Sisters of Gion
Movie • 1956
Shadow Over Fuji
Movie • 1957
Hakuten
Tōkyō sanosa musume
Movie • 1962
Magistrate Ooka’s Legends
Movie • 1958
続変化大名
Movie • 1954
直八子供旅
Movie • 1958
Kunisada Chuji
Movie • 1958
Third Class Executives
Movie • 1952
Thirty-three footprints
Movie • 1948
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Movie • 1963
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Movie • 1963
Kaze no ko
Movie • 1949
Fencing Master
Movie • 1950
神変美女桜
Movie • 1956
Escape from Prison
Movie • 1950
A Samurai's Love
Movie • 1954
Uragirimono wa jigoku daze
Movie • 1962
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
Movie • 1963
Jirocho
Pure-Hearted Unit
Movie • 1957
Goblin's Highway
Movie • 1957
Aoi Secret Book
Movie • 1958
Monjuro Kaida
The Travel notes of Choshichiro - Peregrine Goblin
Movie • 1959
Kanbei's Bargain Sale
Movie • 1958
G-men of Japan 3: Fearless Counterattack
Movie • 1951
Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
Movie • 1958
Kantaro of Ina
Movie • 1943
Whirlwind Magistrate
Movie • 1959
Green Earth
Movie • 1942
Ghost Ship Part 1
Movie • 1957
Gorôdayû
Kurama Tengu: Acrobat in a lion mask
Movie • 1951
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Demon Palace
Movie • 1955
Young Ruddy Warrior: Nobunaga Oda
Movie • 1955
Saitō Dōsan
Four and A Half Mats
Movie • 1966
Yasuzō Fukazawa
Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō
Movie • 1961
The Lady of Musashino
Movie • 1951
Shinzaburo Miyaji
明朗五人男
Movie • 1940
Himalayan Wanderer
Movie • 1961
The Scroll’s Secret
Movie • 1958
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Movie • 1955
Pilgrim
Raised in a Palace
Movie • 1964
Chiyomatsu
House of Spider Webs
Movie • 1959
Rebellion of Japan
Movie • 1967
New Women’s Dialogue
Movie • 1955
Hibari the Traveling Performer
Movie • 1962
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Movie • 1950
Yamazaki
Shimizu no Jirocho den
Movie • 1952
The Conspirator
Movie • 1961
A Smell of Money
Movie • 1965
Battle of Roses
Movie • 1950
Nangoku taiheiki
Movie • 1937
Maki Chutaro
Tale of a Company Boss
Movie • 1961
Chojiro Shimizu
Tale of a Company Boss 3
Movie • 1961
Chojiro Shimizu
Boss Takes to the Road
Movie • 1961
Chojiro Shimizu
An Actor's Revenge
Movie • 1959
Rinchi
Movie • 1949
Hizakura
The Man from Planet Alpha
Movie • 1966
The Craziest Operation
Movie • 1966
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Movie • 1959
Detective Hibari: Secret of the Golden Coin
Movie • 1958
Mother Never Dies
Movie • 1942
Duel at Yagyu Valley
Movie • 1945
Kijin Juzaemon
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Movie • 1946
Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
Movie • 1960
The Man of Seven Faces
Movie • 1960
Shuhei Hoshimura
Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
Movie • 1961
The Ambitious Youth
Movie • 1962
Hikozo Okubo
Tales of President Mito
Movie • 1962
Kohei Mito
Case of Umon: Woman of the Magic Lantern
Movie • 1961
Lord Mito
Movie • 1957
Official with a Tattoo
Movie • 1960
Sarako Jubei
Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
Movie • 1959
The Tale of Genji
Movie • 1951
Minister of the Right
Bored Hatamoto Passes By
Movie • 1953
Onna keizu
Movie • 1942
Sakata
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Movie • 1960
The Sentencer
Movie • 1962
The Second Bullet is Marked
Movie • 1960
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
Movie • 1956
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Movie • 1942
Kurimoto
Wings of Victory
Movie • 1942
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Movie • 1941
The Way of Drama
Movie • 1944
Wind, Woman and Road
Movie • 1958
The Bandits
Movie • 1962
Showdown at Lightning Pass
Movie • 1962
Warrior of the Wind
Movie • 1964
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Movie • 1941
Samanosuke Karasaki
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie • 1975
Self
Falcon Magistrate
Movie • 1957
Case of Umon: One-Eyed Wolf
Movie • 1959
The Black Current
Movie • 1954
Case of Umon: Red Lizard
Movie • 1962
The Ako Retainers
Movie • 1961
Gentle Breeze
Movie • 1959
Tattoo of Love
Movie • 1963
Tengu Priest
Movie • 1962
One-Eyed Detective
Movie • 1953
Takayuki Okabe
A House in the Quarter
Movie • 1963
Man of Thirteen Eyes
Movie • 1958
Unwieldy Brothers
Movie • 1960
Yamaji Saemon
The Sword Knows
Movie • 1958
A Gang of Five
Movie • 1955
Hamamatsu-ya Kobei
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
Movie • 1963
The Actress vs. the Greedy Sharks
Movie • 1966
Sir Doi
Clothes of Deception
Movie • 1951
Isehama
The Bastards of Lawless Town
Movie • 1959
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Movie • 1963
Horibe
Merciless Blade Part 2
Movie • 1953
Merciless Blade
Movie • 1953
Merciless Blade Part 3
Movie • 1953
Weeping Doll
Movie • 1951
Festival of Swordsmen
Movie • 1961
The Acrobats of Death
Movie • 1959
Fighting Disposition
Movie • 1958
Jiruba no Tetsu
Movie • 1950
The Killing of Otsuya
Movie • 1951
Tokubei
Rebellion
Movie • 1957
Old Songs
Movie • 1939
音楽大進軍
Movie • 1943
Director
Oath on the Burning Sands
Movie • 1940
Scarier than the Devil
Movie • 1960
Ghost Story: Passion in Fukagawa
Movie • 1952
The Splendid Gold Mine
Movie • 1941
Monsieur Zivaco
Movie • 1967
President Oike
Miniature
Movie • 1953
Road of Chivalry
Movie • 1960
Travel Romances
Movie • 1957
Travels of Gonkuro
Movie • 1961
Dancers of Awa
Movie • 1941
A Geisha
Movie • 1953
Sawamoto
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Movie • 1961
The Opium War
Movie • 1943
The Body
Movie • 1962
Actress
Movie • 1947
Dr. Okubo
Ticket to Hell
Movie • 1955
Heijirô Gondô
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Movie • 1960
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
Movie • 1957
Kyuroku
The Pirates
Movie • 1960
Case of a Young Lord 7: Red Crane House
Movie • 1958
Magistrate of Dice
Movie • 1961
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Movie • 1960
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Movie • 1964
Isshin Tasuke: A Man Among Men
Movie • 1959
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
Movie • 1965
A Spectacular Showdown
Movie • 1959
Lords of Oppression
Movie • 1957
Lords of Oppression 2
Movie • 1957
The Unleashed Lord
Movie • 1959
Temple of Revenge
Movie • 1957
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
Movie • 1939
Tales of a Drifter
Movie • 1951
Lion Festival of Echigo
Movie • 1962
Turbulent Highways
Movie • 1959
Hell's Juggler
Movie • 1961
Four Swordsmen of Ashura
Movie • 1955
Pleasant Company
Movie • 1962
Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
Movie • 1963
Onna no issho
Movie • 1953
Yokubo
Movie • 1953
Jakoman and Tetsu
Movie • 1949
Kyubei
World of Love
Movie • 1943
Flowers Blooming In the Storm
Movie • 1940
The Tattooed Magistrate: Fallen Flowers Showdown Volume
Movie • 1950
The Tattooed Magistrate: Cherry Blossoms Dance Volume
Movie • 1950
The Roar of The Lion
Movie • 1955
The Bloody Cherry Blossom Magistrate
Movie • 1954
Pirates Magistrate
Movie • 1957
My Nightingale
Movie • 1944
Tatsumi
The Black Hooded Man in Peril
Movie • 1960
The Chop Professor
Movie • 1956
Lord for a Night
Movie • 1946
Song of the White Orchid
Movie • 1939
Sky of Hope
Movie • 1942
Man With the Knapsack
Kuriyama Daizen
Movie • 1936
Hayase Sake
Numazu Officer School
Movie • 1939
Happily Tied to the Road
Movie • 1959
Koshuya
Flower Picking Diary
Movie • 1939
Itahachi shima
Movie • 1938
Story of Lightning
Movie • 1951
Repast
Movie • 1951
(uncredited)
Violence
Movie • 1952
Ninja Assassins
Movie • 1960
Yatsuhaka-mura
Movie • 1951
Eleven High School Girls
Movie • 1946
Kawachi fudoki oiro ke hanjō-ki
Movie • 1963
White Cliffs
Movie • 1960
Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf
Movie • 1951
やくざ大名
Movie • 1956
快剣士・笑いの面
Movie • 1956
Queen of the Treasure Island
Movie • 1960
Japan's No. 1 Reckless Man
Movie • 1966
Midair Circus
Movie • 1958
近藤勇 池田屋騒動
Movie • 1953
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Movie • 1965
Kōga (President, Kōga Trading)
若社長レインボー作戦
Movie • 1967
An Edo Magistrate
Movie • 1961
Sword of Solitude
Movie • 1963
His Pistol is Hell
Movie • 1958
Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan
Movie • 1964
Hinoki Butai
Movie • 1946
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Movie • 1960
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
Movie • 1960
Gendai no yokubô
Movie • 1956
Oyaji Daiko
TV • 1968
Ashita Kara no Koi
TV • 1970
The Drumstick Detective
TV • 1972
Women of Osaka Castle
TV • 1970