Takashi Shimura Movies

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

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....

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

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

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the...

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power...

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...

1945 Japanese movie