Takashi Shimura Movies

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) ... ...

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Godzilla

A fire-breathing behemoth terrorizes Japan after an atomic bomb awakens it from its centuries-old sleep.

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Ikiru

A rigid clerk (Takashi Shimura) resolves to do something of lasting importance after learning that he is dying of cancer.

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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

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

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Stray Dog

Two detectives (Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura) track one's stolen revolver into the underworld of late-1940s Tokyo.

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Seven Samurai

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.

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Drunken Angel

Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster of tuberculosis.

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Sanjuro

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

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Throne of Blood

A Japanese version of "Macbeth" features a samurai (Toshirô Mifune), his scheming wife (Isuzu Yamada) and a flurry-of-arrows finale.

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Yojimbo

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

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Rashomon

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.

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Gigantis, the Fire Monster

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Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster

Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra team up to save mankind from the deadliest threat of all -- a fire-breathing space monster.

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Afraid to Die

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.

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The Bad Sleep Well

Japanese police and a tycoon's (Masayuki Mori) son-in-law (Toshirô Mifune) discover deadly corporate corruption.

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The Hidden Fortress

Two medieval misfits help a beaten Japanese warlord (Toshirô Mifune) and his princess (Misa Uehara) escape with the royal gold.

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Bullet Train

Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down, unless a ransom is paid.

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Samurai Assassin

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 »

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Mothra

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.

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I Bombed Pearl Harbor

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I Live in Fear

Believing that nuclear holocaust is imminent, an elderly industrialist (Toshirô Mifune) decides to move his family to Brazil.

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