Takashi Shimura Movies

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...

An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.

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

A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and...

Adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang. Ishimatsu is strong in righteousness weak to mercy, who falls in love at first...

1955 Japanese movie

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

1952 Japanese movie

The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in...

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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

Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power...

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

Japanese war movie.

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

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

Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...