Takashi Shimura Movies

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as a fisherman.

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on...

1948 Japanese drama film.

Forty-seven Ronin of the Ako clan are waiting for the right moment to avenge the insult and death of their master. The film tells the story of one of...

A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns...

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

1957 Japanese movie.

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

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the...