Takashi Shimura Movies

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

Japanese mystery film.

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.

Two youths – the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal – quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths...

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

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...

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...

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.