Takashi Shimura Movies

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

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

1961 Japanese movie

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.

The life of three beautiful princesses in feudal Japan.

An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable...

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

1955 Japanese movie

Japanese family drama.

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

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

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...

1952 Japanese movie