Takashi Shimura Movies

1948 Japanese drama film.

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

The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge...

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is...

The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's...

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...

Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his...

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

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

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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...

Japanese war film.

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.