Takashi Shimura Movies

“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...

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...

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

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

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

Japanese mystery film.

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

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

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...