Best movies of Shima Iwashita

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba, Akira Ishihama,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn.

Actors : Keiji Sada, Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Okada,
Directors : Yasujirô Ozu,

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Actors : Toshie Kimura, Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Mikijirô Hira,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

After killing a counselor of his clan, a fugitive samurai befriends a couple poaching the shogun's gold in the mountains.

Actors : Shizue Kawarazaki, Shima Iwashita, Tokie Hidari, Kichiemon Nakamura,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.

Actors : Isao Kimura, Eiji Okada, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Minori Terada, Etsushi Takahashi,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt ...

Actors : Hiroko Isayama, Kô Nishimura, Shima Iwashita, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.

Actors : Hiroki Iwase, Ken Ogata, Shima Iwashita, Miyuki Yoshizawa,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

Actors : Shôhei Hino, Shima Iwashita, Misako Tanaka, Hiromi Gô,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ...

Actors : Ikuko Asô, Toshimi Hiramatsu, Shima Iwashita, Jôji Hosoda,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters...

Actors : Furankî Sakai, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Shima Iwashita,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal...

Actors : Yûsuke Kawazu, Kayoko Honoo, Shima Iwashita, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her.

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Shima Iwashita, Kirin Kiki, Tomoko Naraoka,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.

Actors : Keiko Matsuzaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Kôshirô Matsumoto,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.

Actors : Akiko Kana, Riki Takeuchi, Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse's gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival ...

Actors : Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura, Shima Iwashita, Kôshirô Matsumoto,
Directors : Keisuke Kinoshita,

A young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan.

Actors : Rie Yokoyama, Shima Iwashita, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Masao Kusakari,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.

Actors : Mariko Kaga, Shima Iwashita, Gô Katô, Kinuyo Tanaka,
Directors : Keisuke Kinoshita,

A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, but declines on account of his barbarous acts ...

Actors : Yûsuke Okada, Shinobu Sakagami, Shima Iwashita, Kaori Okamoto,
Directors : Yasuo Furuhata,

Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.