Takashi Shimura Movies

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...

The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the coveted Shinshu Mountain map targeted by the phantom...

Japanese mystery film.

An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable...

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.

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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...

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

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...

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

This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.

The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community center as a theater troupe visits the village for...

1952 Japanese movie

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...

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

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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