Masao Shimizu

Japanese crime movie.

Japanese drama film.

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan’s failing postwar economy, ...

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, resolves to move his family to safety ...

Two fishing scout pilots make a startling discovery when they find two giant monsters on a remote island. One is a new monster dubbed Anguirus, ...

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo’s underworld explodes with violence.

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...