Takashi Shimura Movies

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

1955 Japanese movie

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

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

Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to...

There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...

Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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.

1945 Japanese movie

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

1962 Japanese movie

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