Browse Takashi Shimura Movies
- 1968
Industrial Spy
Industrial Spy61968HD
A spy learns the top secrets of a company.
- 1965
Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro01965HD
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
- 1966
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era01966HD
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
- 2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'02002HD
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).
- 1968
The Drifting Avenger
The Drifting Avenger6.71968HD
Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making h...
- 1958
Man of Thirteen Eyes
Man of Thirteen Eyes01958HD
Japanese mystery film.
- 1951
The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl01951HD
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coasta...
- 1955
Love Never Fails
Love Never Fails01955HD
Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the othe...
- 1961
Structure of Hate
Structure of Hate01961HD
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
- 1957
Untamed Woman
Untamed Woman71957HD
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...
- 1958
The Sword Knows
The Sword Knows8.51958HD
In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.
- 1966
A Circus Girl
A Circus Girl01966HD
Japanese drama film.
- 1959
The Happy Family
The Happy Family01959HD
Japanese family drama.
- 1952
The Skin of the South
The Skin of the South01952HD
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one en...
- 1963
The Image of Mother
The Image of Mother01963HD
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.
- 1970
House of Gamblers
House of Gamblers71970HD
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 go...
- 1969
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers01969HD
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
- 1972
A Yakuza Has His Way
A Yakuza Has His Way01972HD
The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family c...
- 1961
Challenge to Live
Challenge to Live01961HD
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during th...
- 1937
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba6.21937HD
The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in film, rakug...