Takashi Shimura Movies

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making...

Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...

Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

1961 Japanese movie

An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.

A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

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...

“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...

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...

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

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.

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...