Takashi Shimura Movies

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...

A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

After her father gets incapacitated due to a stroke, a young girl named Sanae takes over his postal job to support her family.

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

1952 Japanese movie

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

A man running a small radio repair shop becomes a key witness in a murder case.

Japanese mystery film.

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...

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

1955 Japanese movie