Takashi Shimura Movies

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

1952 Japanese movie

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

Youth movie.

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

1962 Japanese movie

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima Yasoemon, lost his face in front of people. It...

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...

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...

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.