Takashi Shimura Movies

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

Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.

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

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished...

Japanese drama film.

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on...

Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done, evil forces lurk in Edo and Gentaro...

1962 Japanese movie

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

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

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

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an...

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

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