Takashi Shimura Movies

Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a girl called Mibu, and the two are...

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

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

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

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

Japanese family drama.

This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...

1952 Japanese movie

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

About schoolgirls in a rural town, and a love letter which has the entire community in an uproar.

1962 Japanese movie

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

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

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.

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...