Takashi Shimura Movies

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col....

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

1962 Japanese movie

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

1962 Japanese movie

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his...

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.

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...