Takashi Shimura Movies

Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...

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

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...

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...

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

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.

1962 Japanese movie

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese drama film.

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

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...

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...