Takashi Shimura Movies

A gritty, noirish gangster saga.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Japanese mystery film.

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

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

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

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Youth movie.

Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.

An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.