Takashi Shimura Movies

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

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

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

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...

1950 film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

1962 Japanese movie

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

Japanese war movie.

Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to...

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

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

1961 Japanese movie

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

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...

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...