Takashi Shimura Movies

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

1955 Japanese movie

Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making...

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

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

1962 Japanese movie

A suspense drama about a thief who sneaks onto a late-night ski bus heading from Tokyo to Joshinetsu and the detective who rides with him to arrest...

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

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...

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of...

Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to...

1962 Japanese movie

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.