Takashi Shimura Movies

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...

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...

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...

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

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

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

1962 Japanese movie

A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

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...

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

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

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

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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

This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.