Ton Shimada

1962 Japanese movie

Release : 1962.03.25
Popularity : 0.791

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

Release : 1955.11.15
Popularity : 1.243

Release : 1955.08.03
Popularity : 1.204

Japanese film.

Release : 1956.06.19
Popularity : 0.414

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions...

Release : 1961.11.22
Popularity : 3.441

In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...

Release : 1957.02.27
Popularity : 1.595

The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among...

Release : 1958.09.23
Popularity : 2.593

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of...

Release : 1962.07.01
Popularity : 8.828

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

Release : 1958.04.15
Popularity : 2.622

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Release : 1956.06.08
Popularity : 2.289

Release : 1954.06.24
Popularity : 2.111

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...

Release : 1957.06.25
Popularity : 4.129

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Release : 1959.02.11
Popularity : 1.55

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

Release : 1959.02.18
Popularity : 5.842