Takashi Shimura Movies

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

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

A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

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

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...

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.

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

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...

Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes...

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.