Shima Iwashita Movies
- 1962
Harakiri
Harakiri8.41962HD
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a plac...
- 1969
Double Suicide
Double Suicide6.91969HD
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....
- 1965
Sword of the Beast
Sword of the Beast7.51965HD
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his minist...
- 1962
An Autumn Afternoon
An Autumn Afternoon7.8151962HD
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest...
- 1978
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron6.21978HD
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
- 1974
Himiko
Himiko7.21974HD
The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
- 1964
Assassination
Assassination7.0611964HD
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring th...
- 1964
Samurai from Nowhere
Samurai from Nowhere7.11964HD
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of...
- 1969
Red Lion
Red Lion6.3541969HD
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sa...
- 1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees7.11975HD
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
- 1991
Heat Wave
Heat Wave5.81991HD
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
- 1960
Youth in Fury
Youth in Fury6.71960HD
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. At the...
- 1961
Killers on Parade
Killers on Parade61961HD
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic compet...
- 1978
The Demon
The Demon6.3061978HD
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children wit...
- 1963
A Legend, or Was It?
A Legend, or Was It?6.11963HD
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
- 1973
The Petrified Forest
The Petrified Forest6.51973HD
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estr...
- 1977
Ballad of Orin
Ballad of Orin6.9471977HD
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
- 1970
The Shadow Within
The Shadow Within5.81970HD
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
- 1970
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan6.91970HD
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
- 1997
Moonlight Serenade
Moonlight Serenade51997HD
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.