Takashi Shimura Movies

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a girl called Mibu, and the two are...

1962 Japanese movie

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

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

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...

Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a...

A veteran officer and a young detective investigate a late-night taxi-driver killing; tracing an illegally held pistol leads them through a chain of...

1962 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda film.

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers...

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

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

Dr. Nishiyama has to combat increasingly bizarre events on which seem all too familiar to the French prophet Nostradamus's predictions.

1962 Japanese movie

A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to...