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Takashi Shimura (1905–1982)

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Japanese character actor Takashi Shimura was one of the finest film actors of the 20th century and a leading member of the "stock company" of master director Akira Kurosawa. A native of southern Japan, Shimura was a descendant of the samurai warrior class. Following university training, he founded a theatre company... See full bio »

Born:

Shoji Shimazaki
in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan

Died:

(age 76) in Tokyo, Japan
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1981 Nihon Philharmonic Orchestra: Honoo no dai gogakusho
 
1980 Kagemusha
Gyobu Taguchi
 
1980 A un (TV series)
Hatsutaro Mizuta
– Yajirobee (1980) … Hatsutaro Mizuta
– Ao ringo (1980) … Hatsutaro Mizuta
– Chou chou (1980) … Hatsutaro Mizuta
– Komainu (1980) … Hatsutaro Mizuta
 
1980 Tempyo no iraka
 
1980 Dôran
Kosuke Miyagi
 
1978 Talk of the Town Tora-san
Hiroshi's Father
 
1978 Love and Faith
Sen Rikyu
 
1977 Godzilla
 
1976 Zoku ningen kakumei
 
1975 The Bullet Train
JNR President
 
1974 Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen
Pediatrician
 
1974 Ranru no hata
Shihei Furukawa
 
1974 The Family
Yasuda - Makiko's father
 
1974 Karajishi keisatsu
 
1973 Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Sakubei
 
1973 Dokkoi daisaku (TV series)
Jinpei
 
1972 Gokudo makari touru
 
1971 Tora-san's Love Call
Hyouichiro Suwa (Hiroshi's father)
 
1971 Yomigaeru daichi
Gondo
 
1971 The Bloody Priest
 
1971 Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro renka
 
1970 Gekido no showashi 'Gunbatsu'
Editor (uncredited)
 
1969 Am I Trying
Hyôichirô Suwa
 
1969 Samurai Banners
 
1969 Nihon boryoku-dan: kumicho to shikaku
 
1969 Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi jingi
 
1968 Gion matsuri
Tsuneemon
 
1968 Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Dr. Junan
 
1968 The Bride from Hades
Fortune Teller
 
1968 Chikadô no taiyô made
Ashimura
 
1968 Onna tobakushi amadera kaichô
 
1968 Ah kaiten tokubetsu kogetikai
 
1968 Sangyo supai
 
1968 Gendai yakuza: yotamono no okite
 
1967 Kaze (TV series)
 
1967 Gyangu no teiô
 
1967 Japan's Longest Day
Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura
 
1967 When the Cookie Crumbles
Kudo
 
1966 Zesshô
Sôbei Sonoda
 
1966 Kaerazeru hatoba
Detective Egusa
 
1966 Shurushuru (TV movie)
 
1966 Bangkok no yoru
 
1966 Noren ichidai: jôkyô
 
1966 Ninja Spy
Hakuunsai Tozawa
 
1965 Buraikan jingi
Genkichi Jinnai
 
1965 Frankenstein Conquers the World
Axis Scientist
 
1965 Taiheiyô kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka
Military Command president
 
1965 Sanshiro Sugata
Mishima
 
1965 Red Beard
Tokubei Izumiya
 
1965 Samurai Assassin
Narihisa Ichijô
 
1965 Matatabi san ning yakuza
 
1965 Kono koe naki sakebi
 
1964 Kwaidan
Head priest (segment "Miminashi Hôichi no hanashi")
 
1964 Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Dr. Tsukamoto
 
1964 Tensai sagishi monogatari: Tanuki no hanamichi
Komai
 
1964 Brand of Evil
Tsukamoto, manager
 
1964 Chi to daiyamondo
 
1963 Tsukiyo no wataridori
Nagisa yo yuki jo
 
1963 The Lost World of Sinbad
King Raksha
 
1963 Taiyô wa yondeiru
 
1963 High and Low
Chief of Investigation Section
 
1963 Attack Squadron!
Admiral
 
1962 Chushingura
Hyobu Chishaka
 
1962 Kujira gami
 
1962 Gorath
Kensuke Sonoda - Paleontologist
 
1962 Kurenai no sora
 
1962 Zoku sararîman shimizu minato
 
1962 Long Way to Okinawa
 
1962 Sanjuro
Kurofuji
 
1961 Structure of Hate
 
1961 Different Sons
 
1961 Mothra
News Editor
 
1961 Ai to honoho to
Yoshii
 
1961 Yojimbo
Tokuemon, sake brewer
 
1961 Zoku sararîman Chûshingura
Honzo Kadokawa
 
1961 Harekosode
 
1961 Daredevil in the Castle
Katagiri
 
1960 Sararîman Chûshingura
Honzo Kadokawa
 
1960 Master Fencer Sees the World
 
1960 The Bad Sleep Well
Administrative Officer Moriyama
 
1960 Otoko tai otoko
Chotaro Masue
 
1960 Evening Stream
 
1960 Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi
Tosaku
 
1960 Afraid to Die
Gohei Hirayama
 
1960 Sen-hime goten
 
1959 Nippon tanjô
Elder Kumaso
 
1959 Kagero ezu
Ryoan
 
1959 Sengoku gunto-den
Saemon Toki
 
1959 Taiyô ni somuku mono
Ichikawa - detective
 
1959 Whistle in My Heart
 
1959 Tetsuwan toshu inao monogatari
 
1959 Beran me-e geisha
 
1959 Sora kakeru hanayome
 
1959 Shobushi to sono musume
 
1958 The Hidden Fortress
The Old General, Izumi Nagakura
 
1958 Theater of Life
 
1958 Point and Line
Kasai
 
1958 Chûshingura
Jûbei Ôtake
 
1958 Nichiren to moko daishurai
 
1957 The Mysterians
Dr. Tanjiro Adachi
 
1957 Dotanba
 
1957 Zoku aoi sanmyaku Yukiko no maki
 
1957 Aoi sanmyaku Shinko no maki
 
1957 Yuunagi
Yasunori Igawa
 
1957 Kiken na eiyu
 
1957 Bôkyaku no hanabira: Kanketsuhen
 
1957 Untamed Woman
 
1957 Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku
 
1957 Kono futari ni sachi are
 
1957 Yama to kawa no aru machi
 
1957 Throne of Blood
Noriyasu Odagura
 
1957 Bôkyaku no hanabira
 
1957 Ohtori-jo hanayome
 
1956 Narazu-mono
Juzo
 
1956 Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Dr. Yamane
 
1956 Ankokugai
Tsunejiro Furuya
 
1956 Kyatsu o nigasuna
Nagasawa
 
1956 Young Tree
Hanako's Father
 
1956 Shin, Heike monogatari: Yoshinaka o meguru sannin no onna
Sanemori Saito
 
1956 Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Sado Nagaoka the court official
 
1955 I Live in Fear
Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
 
1955 Sugata naki mokugekisha
Insepctor Kasai
 
1955 Geisha Konatsu: Hitori neru yo no Konatsu
Sakuma
 
1955 Muttsuri Umon torimonocho
 
1955 Shin kurama tengu daisanbu
 
1955 Sanjusan go sha otonashi
 
1955 Otoko arite
'Sparrows' Coach Shimamura
 
1955 Love Never Fails
Nobuo's father
 
1955 Godzilla Raids Again
Kyohei Yamane-hakase
 
1955 Mekura neko
 
1954 Bazoku geisha
Kotaro Yamabe
 
1954 Shin kurama tengu daini wa: Azuma-dera no ketto
 
1954 Godzilla
Kyohei Yamane-hakase
 
1954 Shin kurama tengu daiichi wa: Tengu shutsugen
 
1954 Haha no hatsukoi
 
1954 Kimi shinitamo koto nakare
 
1954 Asakusa no yoru
Komazo
 
1954 Seven Samurai
Kambei Shimada
 
1954 Jirochô sangokushi: kaitô-ichi no abarenbô
 
1953 Operation Kamikaze
Colonel A, staff officer of the army
 
1953 Yoru no owari
Yoshikawa
 
1953 Hoyo
Watanabe, alias Nabesan
 
1952 Fuun senryobune
 
1952 Minato e kita otoko
Okabe
 
1952 Oka wa hanazakari
Kenkichi Kimura
 
1952 Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe
 
1952 Bijo to touzoku
Yoshimichi
 
1952 Sengoku burai
 
1952 The Life of Oharu
Old Man
 
1952 Foghorn
 
1952 The Skin of the South
 
1952 Vendetta of a Samurai
 
1951 Bakurô ichidai
Rokutaro Kosaka
 
1951 Hopu-san: sararîman no maki
 
1951 Mesu inu
Horie
 
1951 Aoi shinju
 
1951 Kedamono no yado
 
1951 The Idiot
Ono, Ayako's father
 
1951 Elegy
 
1951 Ai to nikushimi no kanata e
 
1951 Nusumareta koi
 
1950 Yoru no hibotan
 
1950 Rashomon
Woodcutter
 
1950 Angry Street
 
1950 Scandal
Attorney Hiruta
 
1950 Pen itsuwarazu, bôryoku no machi
 
1950 Ore wa yojinbo
 
1950 Ma no ogon
 
1950 Tenya wanya
 
1950 Ginza Sanshiro
 
1950 Datsugoku
 
1949 Stray Dog
Det. Sato
 
1949 Waltz at Noon
 
1949 Jigoku no kifujin
Chief of Police
 
1949 The Quiet Duel
Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki
 
1949 Onna no issho
 
1948 Drunken Angel
Sanada
 
1948 Daini no jinsei
 
1947 Spring Awakens
 
1947 Snow Trail
Nojiro
 
1947 Chikagai nijuyojikan
 
1947 Four Love Stories
Masao's father (episode 1)
 
1946 No Regrets for Our Youth
Police Commissioner 'Poison Strawberry' Dokuichigo
 
1946 Juichinin no jogakusei
 
1946 Those Who Make Tomorrow
Theatre manager
 
1946 Minshu no teki
 
1946 Aru yo no tonosama
 
1945 Three Women of the North
 
1945 Tokkan ekichô
 
1945 The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Kataoka
 
1944 San-jaku sagohei
Yasukichi Ito
 
1944 The Most Beautiful
Chief Goro Ishida
 
1944 Kato hayabusa sento-tai
 
1944 Nichijô no tatakai
 
1944 Shibaidô
 
1943 Kaigun
 
1943 Himetaru kakugo
Ryôkichi Ishikawa
 
1943 Sanshiro Sugata
Hansuke Murai, Sayo's father
 
1942 Hahakogusa
 
1942 Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijoji ketto
 
1941 Edo saigo no hi
 
1940 Miyamoto Musashi: Dai-san-bu - Kenshin ichiro
 
1940 Zoku Shimizu minato
 
1940 Oda Nobunaga
 
1939 Tsubanari ronin
Sherikov
 
1939 Singing Lovebirds
Kyosai Shimura
 
1939 Edo no akutarô
 
1939 Zoku mazô - Ibara Ukon
 
1939 Shunjû ittôryû
 
1938 Mazô
 
1938 Yajikita dôchûki
 
1938 Akagaki Genzô
Jôzaemon Sakaya
 
1938 Shadows of Darkness
 
1938 Shamisen yakuza
Heisuke
 
1938 Kurama Tengu
Kichinosuke Saigô
 
1938 Jigoku no mushi
 
1937 Jiraiya
Gundayû Yao
 
1937 Chikemuri Takadanobaba
Takusan
 
1937 Taki no shiraito
 
1936 Akagaki Genzô (short)
 
1936 Chûretsu nikudan sanyûshi
 
1936 Osaka Elegy
Inspector
 
1936 Capricious Young Man
 
1935 Chuji uridasu
 
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2007 The Making of 'Drunken Angel' (video documentary short)
Himself
 

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Height:

5' 7¾" (1.72 m)
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Although he was not Akira Kurosawa's best-known actor (Toshirô Mifune had this honor), Shimura appeared in more Kurosawa films than Mifune, totaling 19. However (especially in later years), many of his characters had smaller, supporting roles. See more »

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