Takashi Shimura — Actor (75)
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Three Yakuza (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
股旅　三人やくざ
director: Tadashi Sawashima actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 股旅　三人やくざ
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.
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Love and Faith (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
お吟さま
director: Kei Kumai actor: Ryoko Nakano / Takashi Shimura …
other title: Mademoiselle Ogin / お吟さま
Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's father Rikyu also displeases Hideyoshi by opposing the warlord's plan to invade China and Korea. When the animalistic Hideyoshi is rejected by Ogin, he threatens her and her father with arrest and worse.
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Challenge to Live (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
愛と炎と
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Yōko Tsukasa …
other title: 愛と炎と
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 the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).
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Saga of the Vagabonds (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
戦国群盗傳
director: Toshio Sugie actor: Toshirō Mifune / Koji Tsuruta …
other title: Le scimitarre dei mongoli / 戦国群盗傳
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro's unscrupulous brother Jiro falsely accuse Taro of the theft, and Taro reactively joins the outlaw band and encourages them to steal from the nobles and give to the poor.
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Three Women of the North (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
北の三人
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Setsuko Hara / Hideko Takamine …
other title: 北の三人
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned.
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A Whistle in My Heart (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
コタンの口笛
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Ken Yamauchi / Ryoko Koda …
other title: Le Sifflement de Kotan / El silbido de Kotan …
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
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The Angry Street (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
怒りの街
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Jūkichi Uno / Yasumi Hara …
other title: La Rue en colère / 怒りの街
University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Sudo becomes gradually involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister Masako. In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
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The Way of Drama (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
芝居道
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: Le Chemin du drame / 芝居道
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 styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.
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Untamed Woman (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
あらくれ
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Ken Uehara …
other title: Une femme indomptable / Una mujer indomable …
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 success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
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The Eagle of the Pacific (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
太平洋の鷲
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Denjirō Ōkōchi / Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi …
other title: Operazione kamikaze / Eagle Of The Pacific …
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
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The Blue Pearl (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
青い眞珠
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yukiko Shimazaki …
other title: 青い眞珠
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 coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
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The Skin of the South (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
南国の肌
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Hajime Izu / Yasuko Fujita …
other title: 南国の肌 / Nangoku no hada
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course.