Takashi Shimura Movies

A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!

1952 Japanese movie

Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.

Also known as Crazy Uproar.

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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...

Japanese war film.

Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting...

This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.

An Ishiro Honda film.

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

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge...

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

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