Takashi Shimura

A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai ...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the ...

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by paleontologist ...

The 5th film in the original Godzilla franchise marked a turning point in the series. Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra must put aside their quarrelsome ...

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, “Rashomon” is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the ...

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she’s a ghost, he ...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to ...

In a hastily produced first-sequel to the classic “Gojira”, two pilots race back to Japan to inform the government that two giants ...

The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku ...

Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be ...

The heavily re-edited American version of Godzilla Raids Again. A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named ...

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it. A Japanese variation of the “Moby ...

In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and ...

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. ...

This anthology tells three separate stories, all about yakuza (Japan’s gangsters) in the feudal period. In the first, Sentaro, a roaming ...

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father’s (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the ...

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same ...

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building ...

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official. Release: Zatoichi And The Fugitives (1968) [720p] [BluRay]-YTS ...

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor’s son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but ...