Takashi Shimura Movies

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his...

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...

Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a...

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...

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...

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

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...

When a corrupt executive takes over his struggling company and violates his girlfriend, a young salaryman declares war, leaving his job to expose the...

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

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...

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers...

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above....

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...

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