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.
Acted in 275
1970s
- 1972
The Drumstick Detective
TV
1960s
- 1968
- 1967
Monsieur Zivaco
President Oike
Rebellion of Japan
Movie
- 1966
The Craziest Operation
Movie
Japan's No. 1 Reckless Man
Movie
Four and A Half Mats
Yasuzō Fukazawa
The Actress vs. the Greedy Sharks
Sir Doi
- 1965
Sequel Western King, Eastern Leader
Movie
Japan's No. 1 Sesame Paste Man
Movie
President's Ninja Trick Book Part II
Kōga (President, Kōga Trading)
- 1964
Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan
Movie
Revenge
Koetsu
Raised in a Palace
Chiyomatsu
Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery
Movie
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Movie
Warrior of the Wind
Movie
Orders from Hell
Movie
- 1963
Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong
Movie
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Movie
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Horibe
Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
Movie
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
Movie
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
Keishiro Murakami
Sword of Solitude
Movie
Kawachi fudoki oiro ke hanjō-ki
Movie
A Devil of a Gentleman
Movie
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５
Jirocho
Tattoo of Love
Movie
- 1962
Uragirimono wa jigoku daze
Movie
The Body
Movie
Tengu Priest
Movie
Showdown at Lightning Pass
Movie
Lion Festival of Echigo
Movie
Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain
Movie
Tōkyō sanosa musume
Movie
Hibari the Traveling Performer
Movie
The Sentencer
Movie
Case of Umon: Red Lizard
Movie
Yakuza Official
Movie
The Ambitious Youth
Hikozo Okubo
The Bandits
Movie
Tales of President Mito
Kohei Mito
Pleasant Company
Movie
The Eve of the Chinese Festival
Movie
- 1961
Travels of Gonkuro
Movie
The Conspirator
Movie
Boss Takes to the Road
Chojiro Shimizu
Himalayan Wanderer
Movie
Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.２
Movie
Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō
Movie
Magistrate of Dice
Movie
The Ako Retainers
Movie
Festival of Swordsmen
Movie
An Edo Magistrate
Movie
Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
Movie
I Am The Magician From Hell
Movie
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Movie
- 1960
Scarier than the Devil
Movie
Queen of the Treasure Island
Movie
The Pirates
Movie
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Movie
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Movie
The Black Hooded Man in Peril
Movie
Ninja Assassins
Movie
Unwieldy Brothers
Yamaji Saemon
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Movie
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
Movie
White Cliffs
Movie
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Movie
Official with a Tattoo
Sarako Jubei
Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
Movie
The Second Bullet is Marked
Movie
Road of Chivalry
Movie
1950s
- 1959
An Actor's Revenge
Movie
Isshin Tasuke: A Man Among Men
Movie
The Travel notes of Choshichiro - Peregrine Goblin
Movie
Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
Movie
A Spectacular Showdown
Movie
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
Movie
Gentle Breeze
Movie
Hell's Companion
Movie
Happily Tied to the Road
Koshuya
House of Spider Webs
Movie
Turbulent Highways
Movie
Whirlwind Magistrate
Movie
Case of Umon: One-Eyed Wolf
Movie
The Unleashed Lord
Movie
The Bastards of Lawless Town
Movie
The Acrobats of Death
Movie
- 1958
Fighting Disposition
Movie
Case of a Young Lord 7: Red Crane House
Movie
Detective Hibari: Secret of the Golden Coin
Movie
Kanbei's Bargain Sale
Movie
Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
Movie
Kunisada Chuji
Movie
Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
Movie
Midair Circus
Movie
Magistrate Ooka’s Legends
Movie
Yaji and Kita's Ghost Story Journey
Movie
His Pistol is Hell
Movie
Eight Views of Samurai
Movie
Wind, Woman and Road
Movie
Aoi Secret Book
Monjuro Kaida
直八子供旅
Movie
Man of Thirteen Eyes
Movie
The Scroll’s Secret
Movie
A Chivalrous Spirit
Movie
- 1957
Falcon Magistrate
Movie
Travel Romances
Movie
Goblin's Highway
Movie
Case of a Young Lord 6: Mermaid Murder Case
Movie
Ghost Ship Part 1
Gorôdayû
Lord Mito
Movie
The Adventures of Chuji
Denbei Sagamiya
Temple of Revenge
Movie
Rebellion
Movie
The Lord Takes a Bride
Nagano
Lords of Oppression 2
Movie
Lords of Oppression
Movie
Pirates Magistrate
Movie
The Horse Boy
Movie
Pure-Hearted Unit
Movie
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
Kyuroku
- 1956
神変美女桜
Movie
New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune
Movie
Red-Lacquered Sword
Movie
やくざ大名
Movie
Manchurian Sunset
Movie
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship
Movie
Gendai no yokubô
Movie
Sisters of Gion
Movie
The Chop Professor
Movie
Street of Shame
Kurazô Taya
快剣士・笑いの面
Movie
大当り男一代
柏屋万兵衛
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
Movie
- 1955
Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Letter of Challenge
Movie
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Demon Palace
Movie
The Roar of The Lion
Movie
Ticket to Hell
Heijirô Gondô
Taira Clan Saga
Banboku
Young Ruddy Warrior: Nobunaga Oda
Saitō Dōsan
New Women’s Dialogue
Movie
振袖釼法
堀源太左衛門
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Dokuro kago
Movie
Tôjûrô no koi
Mandayu Miyako
Tsubakuro kasa
Movie
Four Swordsmen of Ashura
Movie
The Birth of Judo
Movie
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
Movie
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Pilgrim
A Gang of Five
Hamamatsu-ya Kobei
- 1954
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion
Movie
続変化大名
Movie
Akōgishi
Movie
Husband on the Run
Movie
Inugami-ke no nazo: Akuma wa odoru
Movie
The Story of Shunkin
Movie
Koina no Ginpei
Movie
- 1953
Life of a Woman
Movie
The Sun
Movie
One-Eyed Detective
Takayuki Okabe
Merciless Blade Part 3
Movie
Merciless Blade Part 2
Movie
Desire
Movie
近藤勇 池田屋騒動
Movie
Merciless Blade
Movie
Miniature
Movie
Okore Sanpei
Movie
Hana fuku kaze
Movie
Bored Hatamoto Passes By
Movie
Shachō hisho
Movie
Reminiscence
Movie
- 1952
花吹雪男祭り
Movie
Shimizu no Jirocho den
Movie
Zoku santō jūyaku
Movie
Zoku bakurō ichidai
Movie
Violence
Movie
Ghost Story: Passion in Fukagawa
Movie
はだか大名 後篇
Movie
はだか大名 前篇
Movie
Taki no Shiraito
Gōzō Matsunaga
- 1951
Story of Lightning
Movie
Repast
(uncredited)
Five Men of Edo
Gonhei
Yatsuhaka-mura
Movie
Kurama Tengu: Acrobat in a lion mask
Movie
G-men of Japan 3: Fearless Counterattack
Movie
The Tale of Genji
Minister of the Right
Weeping Doll
Movie
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
Movie
新遊侠伝
Movie
Mange jigoku
Movie
The Killing of Otsuya
Tokubei
Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Mondo Tani
Clothes of Deception
Isehama
Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf
Movie
- 1950
Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord
Movie
Fencing Master
Movie
Jiruba no Tetsu
Movie
Heat and Mud
Movie
The Tattooed Magistrate: Fallen Flowers Showdown Volume
Movie
The Tattooed Magistrate: Cherry Blossoms Dance Volume
Movie
Enoken ohako rakuda no Ma-san
Movie
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Yamazaki
Escape from Prison
Movie
G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
Movie
1940s
- 1949
Rinchi
Hizakura
Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
Movie
Island of Horrors
Kihei
Jakoman and Tetsu
Kyubei
Kaze no ko
Movie
- 1948
Thirty-three footprints
Movie
- 1947
Actress
Dr. Okubo
- 1946
Eleven High School Girls
Movie
Beauty
Densuke Isaka
A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Movie
Hinoki Butai
Movie
- 1945
Duel at Yagyu Valley
Kijin Juzaemon
- 1944
The Way of Drama
Movie
My Nightingale
Tatsumi
- 1943
World of Love
Matsujirô
音楽大進軍
Director
Kantaro of Ina
Movie
- 1942
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya
Kurimoto
Wings of Victory
Movie
Mother Never Dies
Movie
Green Earth
Movie
Currents of Youth
Yuijima
Sky of Hope
Man With the Knapsack
- 1941
The Splendid Gold Mine
Movie
Dancers of Awa
Movie
The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday
Movie
- 1940
Oath on the Burning Sands
Movie
明朗五人男
Movie
Flowers Blooming In the Storm
Movie
1930s
- 1939
Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year
Movie
Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki
Ittetsu Inaba
Flower Picking Diary
Movie
Numazu Officer School
Movie
- 1936
Osaka Elegy
Yoshizo Fujino
Appearances1
1970s
- 1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Self