Takashi Shimura Movies

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

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

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....

The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's...

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

A sequel to Geisha Konatsu (1954).

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

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...

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

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

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...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

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

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

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