Shōgo Shimada Movies

The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was released from prison after 10 years in prison....

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatically. He stopped gambling and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shōgo Shimada

In June 1941, Captain Kagawa (Ryutaro Tatsumi), who had just graduated from the military academy, was assigned as the captain of a sentry patrol in...

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Cast: Ryūtarō Tatsumi

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...

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Cast: Ryūtarō Tatsumi

At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi Shirakawa, Kurama Tengu was attacked by the...

Genre: History

Cast: Shōgo Shimada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Hosokawa

In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of their master Asano Takumi-no-kami. Shogun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

In the town of Yumoto, Asakichi, a left-arm-less gambler who had been winning at the gambling hall, was attracted by the sound of a faintly heard...

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Cast: Shōgo Shimada

Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diane Lane

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shōgo Shimada

Kunisada Tadaharu, a peasant of Kunisada Village in Joshu Sai County, could not stand the bad government and poor harvest of Takebe Genhan, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūtarō Tatsumi

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Ken Takakura plays Takei Shigejiro...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Genre: War

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tamasaburo Bando

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between...

Genre: Action

Cast: Scott Glenn

Saito Masao reminisces on the days of his youth more than 50 years ago and his forbidden love of his older cousin Tamiko. When he was 15, Tamiko...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Seiko Matsuda

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

Genre: War

Cast: Martin Balsam

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terumi Niki

Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his character, his group lacks the...

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Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eiji Gō

The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without overcoming the hardship of life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūtarō Tatsumi

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

The life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb action.

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Original drama special written by Taichi Yamada about the sadness and resilience of human beings through a man and his wife's best friend who become...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Reiko Ōhara