Takashi Shimura Movies

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

1957 Japanese movie.

A bold and cheerful tale that broke new ground in the historical drama genre.

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers...

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes...

Japanese war film.

A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.

Komichi (Chieko Baisho), a maiko in Gion, reunites with her elementary school classmate Takao Segawa (Yukio Hashi) for the first time in eight years,...

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to...