Takashi Shimura Movies

A heartwarming tale of romance and thrills featuring an aging groom who discovers the potential of an exceptional racehorse hidden within an ordinary...

1962 Japanese movie

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...

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.

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths...

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

A bold and cheerful tale that broke new ground in the historical drama genre.

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...