Takashi Shimura Movies

Youth movie.

A veteran officer and a young detective investigate a late-night taxi-driver killing; tracing an illegally held pistol leads them through a chain of...

After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up...

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Japanese war movie.

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

A suspense drama about a thief who sneaks onto a late-night ski bus heading from Tokyo to Joshinetsu and the detective who rides with him to arrest...

Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the eerie triple-faced deity of the Sennjogadake...

Caught in a corporate power struggle, a man uses betrayal and strategy to expose corruption and settle personal scores—only to find true...

1955 Japanese movie

Tetsuo Asakura, the son of a bus company president, was planning to take it easy as he neared graduation from college, but due to a series of...