Takashi Shimura Movies

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

Romantic melodrama

Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his...

Caught in a corporate power struggle, a man uses betrayal and strategy to expose corruption and settle personal scores—only to find true...

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

A heartwarming tale of romance and thrills featuring an aging groom who discovers the potential of an exceptional racehorse hidden within an ordinary...

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

At Kaikō Girls’ School, a fake love letter sparks a heated PTA debate. Teacher Shimazaki wins the vote, while students and staff navigate...

The story follows a man haunted by debt and crime, who flees with his mistress on a tense journey marked by betrayals and desperate choices. The film...

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...

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

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

A veteran officer and a young detective investigate a late-night taxi-driver killing; tracing an illegally held pistol leads them through a chain of...

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.