Takashi Shimura Movies

Youth movie.

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

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...

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...

Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

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

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.

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

Romantic melodrama

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

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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.

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi