Takashi Shimura

When Takeo, a young yakuza, is released from prison, he plans to cease any criminal activity. But escaping his troubled past isn't so easy.

When a giant whale terrorizes a small Japanese village and decimates its hunting parties, the locals become obsessed with hunting it down.

In medieval Japan, a samurai fights to save a feudal lord's daughter from bandits.

The follow-up to hugely successful Yojimbo, sees the return of star Toshiro Mifune as the samurai who cleans up corruption in a small town.

A surprising celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous story about a painter and a famous singer.

A group of ronin (masterless samurai) patiently plan and execute an assault on a rival Lord's estate, exacting revenge after their master was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official. Set during the Tokugawa shogunate in 1701, based on a true story.

Captivated by a courtesan's beauty, samurai Shinzaburo agrees to marriage. But he doesn't realize that the object of his infatuation is a ghost.

Yojimbo is the story of Sanjuro, a samurai in nineteenth-century Japan who drifts into a rural town and learns from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangs.

A disillusioned Musashi Miyamoto (Toshiro Mifune) has turned his back on the samurai life, becoming a farmer in a remote village, while his nemesis Kojiro (Koji Tsuruta) now works for the shogun. Circumstances bring them back together for one final face-off. Though it’s marked by a memorably intense final battle sequence, the rousing conclusion to the Samurai Trilogy is engaged with matters of the heart as well, as Miyamoto must ask himself what it is that makes a warrior and a man.

In this loose adaptation of Hamlet, Japanese police and a tycoon's son-in-law discover deadly corporate corruption.

The O.G. of Japanese kaiju films! When nuclear testing awakens the fire-breathing lizard known as Godzilla, the destruction soon begins. A brilliant scientist who wants to study the beast may be the only one with the secret to destroying it.

Through a simple act of revenge, Tokyos deadliest assassin sets off the biggest gang war in crime history. There is nowhere to hide when the most vicious criminal imaginable try to hunt him down, determined to annihilate this definitive master of death. Starring Bunta Sugawara ("Spirited Away," "The Man Who Stole the Sun") and Tsunehiko Watese ("Antarctica," "Amagi goe"). Japanese Language Film with English Subtitles.