List of the best Takashi Shimura movies: Godzilla(1954), Ikiru(1952), Godzilla, King of the Monsters!(1956), Stray Dog(1949), Seven Samurai(1954), Drunken Angel(1948), Sanjuro(1962), Throne of Blood(1957), Yojimbo(1961), Rashomon(1950), Gigantis, the Fire Monster(1955), Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster(1965) ... ...
Sci-Fi
1954
98 Minutes
Takashi Shimura Momoko Kochi Akira Takarada Akihiko Hirata Sachio Sakai Fuyuki Murakami Ren Yamamoto
godzilla japanese man japanese woman japanese soldier child scientist brooding emotional intense ocean japan tokyo laboratory street car atomic bomb monsters destruction survival danger
A fire-breathing behemoth terrorizes Japan after an atomic bomb awakens it from its centuries-old sleep.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
1952
143 Minutes
Kanji Watanabe (Chief of Citizen's Section)
Takashi Shimura Miki Odagiri Kyôko Seki
bureaucrat co-worker writer mayor prostitute sad emotional dark office japan illness politics death alcoholism loneliness meaning of life transformation fall 1950s
A rigid clerk (Takashi Shimura) resolves to do something of lasting importance after learning that he is dying of cancer.
6.5/10
Sci-Fi
USA|Japan
1956
80 Minutes
Dr. Yamane
Terry Morse Raymond Burr Takashi Shimura Momoko Kochi Akira Takarada Akihiko Hirata Sachio Sakai Fuyuki Murakami Ren Yamamoto
A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
1949
122 Minutes
Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Keiko Awaji Eiko Miyoshi Noriko Sengoku Noriko Honma Reikichi Kawamura Eijiro Tono
police officer criminal stripper mentor brooding dark tokyo slum nightclub police station crime corruption poverty murder pursuit mystery 1940s
Two detectives (Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura) track one's stolen revolver into the underworld of late-1940s Tokyo.
Action
1954
208 Minutes
Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Yoshio Inaba Seiji Miyaguchi Minoru Chiaki Daisuke Kato Isao Kimura Kunihori Kodo Kamatari Fujiwara Yoshio Tsuchiya
samurai villager bandit monk farmer tense intricate village japan honor kidnapping showdown violence father/daughter relationship hope rescue quest rivalry sacrifice 16th century
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves.
Drama
1948
102 Minutes
Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Reizaburo Yamamoto Michiyo Kogure
doctor gangster criminal victim neighbor gritty tokyo doctor's office alcoholism disease injury teamwork quest 1940s
Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster of tuberculosis.
8.1/10
Adventure, Action
Japan
1962
96 Minutes
Toshirô Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Takashi Shimura Yûzô Kayama Reiko Dan Masao Shimizu Yunosuke Ito Takako Irie Kamatari Fujiwara Keiju Kobayashi
samurai uncle warrior anti-hero gang member intricate suspenseful small town barn japan corruption revenge rescue disillusionment loyalty tradition fall rise 19th century
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
Drama
1957
108 Minutes
Noriyasu Odagura
Toshirô Mifune Isuzu Yamada Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Akira Kubo Takamaru Sasaki Chieko Naniwa
samurai lord wife son rival gripping chilling japan castle forest ambition assassination revenge fall transformation 15th century
A Japanese version of "Macbeth" features a samurai (Toshirô Mifune), his scheming wife (Isuzu Yamada) and a flurry-of-arrows finale.
8.2/10
Comedy, Adventure
Japan
1961
110 Minutes
Tokuemon
Toshirô Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Eijiro Tono Takashi Shimura Seizaburô Kawazu Isuzu Yamada Hiroshi Tachikawa Kyû Sazanka Daisuke Kato Yosuke Natsuki Kamatari Fujiwara
samurai mayor shopkeeper henchmen villager confident gripping touching small town japan gambling crime honor rivalry adventure 16th century
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
8.2/10
Drama
Japan
1950
88 Minutes
Woodcutter
Toshirô Mifune Machiko Ky? Masayuki Mori Takashi Shimura Minoru Chiaki Kichijiro Ueda Daisuke Kato Noriko Honma
husband assassin criminal samurai priest ghost crafty intricate witty suspenseful japan forest suicide rape assassination justice crime mystery pursuit 12th century
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.
Sci-Fi
1955
78 Minutes
Kyohei Yamane-hakase
Hiroshi Koizumi Setsuko Wakayama Minoru Chiaki Takashi Shimura Masao Shimizu Seijiro Onda Sonosuke Sawamura Yoshio Tsuchiya
godzilla spotter suspenseful frightening coast japan raids fire monsters rivalry prehistoric
Sci-Fi
1965
85 Minutes
Dr. Tsukamoto
Yosuke Natsuki Yuriko Hoshi Hiroshi Koizumi Takashi Shimura Emi Ito Yumi Ito Akiko Wakabayashi Hisaya Itô Susumu Kurobe Akihiko Hirata Kenji Sahara
Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra team up to save mankind from the deadliest threat of all -- a fire-breathing space monster.
6.5/10
Crime, Drama
Japan
1960
96 Minutes
Gohei Hirayama
Yukio Mishima Ayako Wakao Keizo Kawasaki Eiji Funakoshi Takashi Shimura Yaeko Mizutani Michiko Ono
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.
Crime, Drama
1960
144 Minutes
Administrative Officer Moriyama
Toshirô Mifune Takeshi Kato Masayuki Mori Kyoko Kagawa Tatsuya Mihashi Takashi Shimura Kô Nishimura
daughter son father businessman vice president lawyer outlandish eerie japan wedding cemetery office revenge suicide corporate greed corruption cover-up rivalry wretched excess pursuit
Japanese police and a tycoon's (Masayuki Mori) son-in-law (Toshirô Mifune) discover deadly corporate corruption.
Comedy
1958
139 Minutes
The Old General, Izumi Nagakura
Toshirô Mifune Misa Uehara Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Susumu Fujita Takashi Shimura
general peasant princess wife young girl amusing rousing thrilling battlefield japan forest fort dangerous assignment expedition gold war adventure quest middle ages
Two medieval misfits help a beaten Japanese warlord (Toshirô Mifune) and his princess (Misa Uehara) escape with the royal gold.
6.8/10
Mystery & Thriller
Japan
1975
155 Minutes
JNR President
Ken Takakura Kei Yamamoto Ken Utsui Sonny Chiba Tetsuro Tamba Etsuko Shihomi Takashi Shimura Fumio Watanabe
terrorist transit chief train conductor pregnant woman government official thrilling suspenseful japan tokyo train station train ransom bomb trains race against time terrorism hysteria revenge quest 1970s
Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.
7.5/10
Action
Japan
1965
122 Minutes
Narihisa Ichijô
Michiyo Aratama Susumu Fujita Chusha Ichikawa Yunosuke Ito Keiju Kobayashi Koshiro Matsumoto Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Haruko Sugimura Nami Tamura Kaoru Yachigusa
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ... See full summary »
6.6/10
Sci-Fi
Japan
1961
101 Minutes
News Editor
Frankie Sakai Hiroshi Koizumi Kyoko Kagawa Ken Uehara Jerry Ito Emi Ito Yumi Ito Takashi Shimura Akihiko Hirata Yoshifumi Tajima Hiroshi Akitsu
monster japanese man japanese woman princess politician police officer brooding emotional intense island japan vaudeville show street house laboratory monsters princess japan destruction danger
A giant, ancient moth begins to attack Japan when coming to the rescue of its two, foot-tall worshippers who were taken by shipwreck survivors.
War
1961
98 Minutes
Tosaku
Yosuke Natsuki Toshirô Mifune Koji Tsurata Misa Uehara Aiko Mimasu Jun Tazaki Makoto Satô Takashi Shimura Daisuke Kato Akira Takarada Hiroshi Koizumi
Drama
1955
105 Minutes
Toshirô Mifune Eiko Miyoshi Haruko Tôgô Masao Shimizu Yutaka Sada Noriko Sengoku Minoru Chiaki Kyôko Aoyama Akemi Negishi Kichijiro Ueda Takashi Shimura
factory worker business owner doctor counselor old man wife bleak disheartening moving japan court house nuclear war fear family dysfunction insanity escape fall underdog 1950s
Believing that nuclear holocaust is imminent, an elderly industrialist (Toshirô Mifune) decides to move his family to Brazil.
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