Takashi Shimura Movies

A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns...

After her father gets incapacitated due to a stroke, a young girl named Sanae takes over his postal job to support her family.

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...

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

The life of three beautiful princesses in feudal Japan.

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

Japanese mystery film.

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

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

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

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.

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...