Takashi Shimura Movies

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

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the eerie triple-faced deity of the Sennjogadake...

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

Komichi (Chieko Baisho), a maiko in Gion, reunites with her elementary school classmate Takao Segawa (Yukio Hashi) for the first time in eight years,...

Romantic melodrama

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by...

Japanese war movie.

Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of...

Tetsuo Asakura, the son of a bus company president, was planning to take it easy as he neared graduation from college, but due to a series of...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

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

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...

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.