Takashi Shimura Movies

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

1962 Japanese movie

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

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...

In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

Romantic melodrama

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

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

1945 Japanese movie

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

“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...

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

The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in...