Takashi Shimura Movies

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family...

Japanese mystery film.

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

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

1962 Japanese movie

Romantic melodrama

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

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...

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...

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

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...

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

1962 Japanese movie

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...