Takashi Shimura Movies

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...

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

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

A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power...

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

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

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima Yasoemon, lost his face in front of people. It...

The story of Kanesuke and Entaro who are master elephant trainers in charge of two elephants, Taro and Hanako at the Metropolitan Zoo.

1955 Japanese movie

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

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

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