Takashi Shimura Movies

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

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

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

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

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...

With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.

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.

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

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...

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed...

Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to...

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...

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.