Acting

Toshio Shimamura

Acting credits

Good Morning poster
7.7

Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do exactly that--refusing to utter a word. The boys' silence ultimately puts the whole neighborhood into turmoil.

Good Morning

1959

Early Spring poster
7.5

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.

Early Spring

1956

The Snow Flurry poster
6.9

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

The Snow Flurry

1959

Pale Flower poster
7.4

A recently released gangster has to cope with the recent shifts of power between gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

Pale Flower

1964

I Will Buy You poster
7.1

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

I Will Buy You

1956

Port of Flowers poster
7.0

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’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.

Port of Flowers

1943

The Big Ambition poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Big Ambition

1955

The Thick-Walled Room poster
7.2

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

The Thick-Walled Room

1956

A Good Man, A Good Day poster
NR

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.

A Good Man, A Good Day

1961

Her Hoodlum Lover poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Her Hoodlum Lover

1957

Komadori fujin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Komadori fujin

1948

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky poster
6.8

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

1954

Youth of the Son poster
6.8

A rivalry sparks between two teenage brothers when they discover the attraction of girls.

Youth of the Son

1952

South Wind 2 poster
NR

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who proposes a scam to make some quick cash. It involved inventing the story that Saigo Takamori didn't actually die in the Satsuma Rebellion but escaped to Southeast Asia to start a new religion and in the process fathered a son who is now the founder. But when they bring the supposed heir and his aide to Japan, chaos ensues...

South Wind 2

1942

Karada no naka o kaze ga fuku poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Karada no naka o kaze ga fuku

1957

August Moon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

August Moon

1962

Farewell to Dream poster
7.1

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 fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.

Farewell to Dream

1956

Dancing with a Mask poster
NR

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Dancing with a Mask

1943

Sono yoru no tsuma poster
NR

Hiroo Ikeda movie

Sono yoru no tsuma

1952