Takashi Shimura Movies

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

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

1948 Japanese drama film.

1962 Japanese movie

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

After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up...

This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.

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...

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima Yasoemon, lost his face in front of people. It...

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

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

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...

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

A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and...