Takashi Shimura Movies

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...

Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family...

Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done, evil forces lurk in Edo and Gentaro...

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

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

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

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

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

Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.

Youth movie.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A gritty, noirish gangster saga.

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...