Toshio Shimamura Movies

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells...

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young...

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

Hiroo Ikeda movie

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.