Takashi Shimura Movies

Seven Samurai

87/100

A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

Rashomon

83/100

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Ikiru

83/100

A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Throne of Blood

81/100

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

Godzilla - Das Original

76/100

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.

Stray Dog

79/100

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

Drunken Angel

78/100

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

66/100

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

Godzilla Raids Again

60/100

Godzilla battles an irradiated Ankylosaur and destroys Osaka in the process.

The Quiet Duel

75/100

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.

Zatoichi and the Fugitives

75/100

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Man of the Biting Wind

66/100

Takeo is a young yakuza who renounces his former criminal activities after being released from prison. But sometimes escaping the past is not so easy.

Sanshiro Sugata

77/100

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of ... See full summary »

Godzilla

61/100

In 1977, the film was purchased and colorized by Luigi Cozzi in a terrible way of a old negative print. When American reporter Steve Martin investigates a series of mysterious disasters off... See full summary »

Snow Trail

72/100

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her ... See full summary »

Araki Mataemon: Kettô kagiya no tsuji

68/100

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

Oshidori utagassen

73/100

Oharu is in love with ronin who lives next door, but he is being pursued by two of the town beauties. To make things even more difficult for Oharu, her father is obsessed with antiques, ... See full summary »

Attack Squadron!

69/100

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air ... See full summary »

Kato hayabusa sento-tai

71/100

Biographical movie about Colonel Kato, an officer serving with the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in Southeast Asia, he was highly respected by his pilots for his fairness and excellent flying ability.

Yuunagi

Noren ichidai: jôkyô

An above-average yakuza ninkyô

I Live in Fear

74/100

An aging, industrialist Japanese man becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.

Ichiban utsukushiku

58/100

During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests an...

Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

66/100

Love and Faith

75/100

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan...