Movies: Takashi Shimura

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Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sa...

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

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it....

Part one of The Masterless 47....

A movie by Hiroshi Inagaki...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952)....

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza gangs....

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period....

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune....

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpectedly in each other's hearts that "this teacher will surely be our confidant," and looked at each othe...

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two f...

As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Before he can do anything for the townspeople, he must first face his nemesis, Whipmaster, the blind P...

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance....

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl....

After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up wanting to repay his debt to Japan, by becoming a kamikaze pilot....

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer....

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power....

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy....

An early film by Kon Ichikawa...