Goemon was a subject of several pre-WWII Japanese films such as "Ishikawa Goemon Ichidaiki" and "Ishikawa Goemon no Hoji". He is a villain in "Torawakamaru the Koga Ninja", and a tragic antagonist in "Fukurō no Shiro" (and in its remake "Owls' Castle", played by Takaya Kamikawa). He and his execution are mentioned in Ozu's silent film "A Story of Floating Weeds." He is the subject of the "Shinobi no Mono" novels and film series, starring Ichikawa Raizō VIII as Goemon in the first three installments. In the third "Shinobi no Mono" film, known in English as "Goemon Will Never Die", he escapes execution while another man is bribed to be boiled in his place. In the film "Goemon", he is portrayed by Yōsuke Eguchi and depicted as Nobunaga's most faithful follower and as associated with Hattori Hanzō as well as Kirigakure Saizō and Sarutobi Sasuke of Sanada Ten Braves.