Takashi Shimura Movies

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

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...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

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

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...

An Ishiro Honda film.

1962 Japanese movie

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

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

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...

The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family...