Takashi Shimura Movies

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

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on...

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

Japanese war film.

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's...

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

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...

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.

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

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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...

Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.

Japanese family drama.