Takashi Shimura Movies

A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work deals with Kashima Rinkai industrial zone...

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

1961 Japanese movie

Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.

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...

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

1962 Japanese movie

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

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

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

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

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

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

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

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 Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...