Takashi Shimura Movies

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.

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...

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed...

A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns...

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 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the...

1957 Japanese movie.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above....

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!

The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's...

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...

Japanese war film.