Takashi Shimura Movies

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

The protagonist descends from the mountains with a huge amount of panned gold dust. Upon learning of his wealth, all sorts of people, driven by greed...

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

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

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

1942 Japanese movie

In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mistress joining the household....

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

An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable...

During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...

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

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Romantic melodrama

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...