Takashi Shimura Movies

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

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

After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up...

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

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

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

A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.

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

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his...

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

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...

After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by...

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 classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...