Takashi Shimura
Born: 1905-03-12 in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
Died: 1982-02-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).[3] He played Professor Kyohei Yamane in Ishirō Honda's original Godzilla (1954) and its first sequel, Godzilla Raids Again (1955). For his contributions to the arts, the Japanese government decorated Shimura with the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 1974 and the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette in 1980. Shimura died on February 11, 1982, in Tokyo, Japan, from emphysema at the age of 76. His effects were presented to the Film Centre of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takashi Shimura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2002
1981
- Fifth Movement
- The Last Days of Planet Earth as Hospital Director
1980
- Kagemusha as Taguchi Gyobu
- A-Un
- The Revolt
- An Ocean to Cross as Ryuuson
1978
- Strait of Roses
- Talk of the Town Tora-san as Hiroshi's Father
- Love and Faith as Sen Rikyu
1977
- Kashin as Chikuin
- Godzilla as Dr. Yamane
- Fuyu no Undokai
1976
1975
- The Bullet Train as JNR President
- Hadashi no seishun
1974
- Prophecies of Nostradamus as Pediatrician
- The Tattooed Hitman as Bukichi Oura
- The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1973
1972
1971
- Tora-san's Love Call as Hiroshi's father
- The Earth is Born Again as Gondo
- Patience Has An End
- Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
1970
1969
- Heaven and Earth as Nagao Fusakage
- Samurai Banners as Obu Toramasa
- A Modern Yakuza: The Code of the Lawless
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
- Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp as Hyôichirô Suwa
- Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
- Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
- The Magoichi Saga as Magoichi's father
- Kanto Woman Infamy
1968
- The Sands of Kurobe as Ashimura
- Zatoichi and the Fugitives as Dr. Junan
- The Bride from Hades as Fortune Teller
- Industrial Spy as Taizo Matsui
- Human Torpedoes
- Woman Gambler and the Nun
- The Drifting Avenger as Ken's Father
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri
- The Woman Champion
- The Day the Sun Rose
- Slave Factory
1967
- Three Sisters as Misawa Heizaemon [Kingoro's father]
- Japan's Longest Day as Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura
- Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
- When the Cookie Crumbles
- The Chivalrous Life as Sakamoto
- King of the Gang
1966
1965
- Red Beard as Tokubei Izumiya
- Kwaidan as Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
- Frankenstein Conquers the World as Hiroshima Army Hospital doctor
- Samurai Assassin as Narihisa Ichijō
- The Retreat from Kiska as Military Command president
- Three Yakuza
- Sanshiro Sugata as Mishima
- Code of Ruffians
- Hoodlum Match
- Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
- The Soundless Cry
- Expelled from the Kanto Mob
1964
- Akō Rōshi as Onodera Juunai
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster as Dr. Tsukamoto
- Brand of Evil as Tsukamoto
- Life of Hishakaku 3
- Blood and Diamonds
- Vanquished Foes
- Fright Time
1963
- High and Low as Chief of Investigation Section
- Samurai Pirate as King Raksha
- Attack Squadron as Admiral
- The Revenge and the Death
- The Sun is Calling You
- Dokuritsu bijin-tai as Director of Iinuma Clinic
- The Image of Mother as Kahei
- Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge as Tobei
1962
- Sanjuro as Kurofuji
- Chûshingura as Hyobu Chishaka
- Gorath as Kensuke Sonoda
- The Whale God as Village elder
- Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II
- The Crimson Sky
- Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
- Yoru no keisha
- Long Way to Okinawa
- あの空の果てに星はまたたく
- Lion Festival of Echigo
1961
- Yojimbo as Tokuemon, sake brewer
- Mothra as News Editor
- Daredevil in the Castle as Katagiri
- Restoration Fire as Yahei
- The Masterless 47 – Part II
- Snow in the South Seas
- The Gambler's Code as Hacchônawate Tokubei
- Different Sons as Hisamitsu Ando
- Structure of Hate
- Challenge to Live
- Oniisan to oneesan
- 晴小袖
1960
- The Bad Sleep Well as Administrative Officer Moriyama
- The Storm of the Pacific as Tosaku
- Afraid to Die as Gohei Hirayama
- The Lovelorn Geisha
- Master Fencer Sees the World
- The Masterless 47 as Honzo Kadokawa
- Man Against Man as Chotaro Masue
- Princess Sen in Edo as Sadonokami Honda
- Life of a Country Doctor
1959
- The Three Treasures as Elder Kumaso
- A Whistle in My Heart
- Stop the Old Fox as Ryoan
- The Story of Iron Arm Inao as Kyusaku Inao
- Vagabond Employee: Revenge as President Kakihara
- The Happy Family
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha as Masagoro
- Gigantis, the Fire Monster as Dr. Yamane
- Sazae-san's Marriage
- Vagabond Employee: Outcry as President Kakihara
- Saga of the Vagabonds as Saemon Toki
- The Silent Murder
1958
- The Hidden Fortress as General Izumi Nagakura
- The Loyal 47 Ronin as Jûbei Ôtake
- Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion as Yasaburô
- Seven from Edo as Sagamiya
- Points and Lines as Kasai
- Mother as Ijûin
- Man of Thirteen Eyes
- Eight Views of Samurai
- Shogun's Holiday
- The Traveling Ruffian
- Theater of Life
- The Black Hooded Man 5
- Fearless Opposition
- The Bride In Uguisu Castle
- The Sword Knows
1957
- Throne of Blood as Noriyasu Odagura
- The Mysterians as Dr. Tanjiro Adachi
- Untamed Woman as Owner of the rice mill
- The Eleventh Hour as Banno
- Good Luck to These Two
- The Lord Takes a Bride
- A Dangerous Hero
- Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean as Dr. Yamane
- The 36 Passengers
- Evening Calm
- Hadaka no Machi
- A Town with a Mountain and River as Sataro Hayakawa
- The Blue Mountains Part 2 as Jinzō Iguchi
- The Blue Mountains as Jinzō Iguchi
1956
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island as Court official
- Godzilla, King of the Monsters! as Dr. Yamane
- Three Women Around Yoshinaka
- Virtue in Spades
- Tokyo Crime Map
- The Underworld as Furuya
- Young Tree as Hanako's Father
- Scoundrel
- I Saw the Killer as Nagasawa
- Eacape of Fear as Daisuke Sakuma
1955
- Godzilla Raids Again as Kyohei Yamane-hakase
- I Live in Fear as Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
- Ticket to Hell as Insepctor Kasai
- No Time for Tears as "Sparrows" Coach Shimamura
- Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
- No Response from Car 33
- Love Never Fails as Nobuo's father
- To Love and Forgive
- むっつり右門捕物帖 鬼面屋敷
- A Daughter's Life Guide
- New Tengu Kurama: Samurai in the Pouring Rain as Ensaburō Hiraoka
1954
- Seven Samurai as Kambei Shimada
- Godzilla as Kyohei Yamane
- Last of the Wild Ones
- Mother's First Love
- Asakusa at Night as Komazo
- A Geisha on Horseback as Kotaro Yamabe
- 君死に給うことなかれ
- Sorcerer’s Orb
- Love Express
1953
- The Eagle of the Pacific as Colonel A, staff officer of the army
- The End of the Night
- Escape Zone
- The Last Embrace as Watanabe (Nabesan)
1952
- Ikiru as Kanji Watanabe
- The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail as Kataoka
- Vendetta of a Samurai
- Sword for Hire
- The Skin of the South as President
- One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds
- Beauty and the Thief as Yoshimichi
- Foghorn
- The Man Who Came to Port as Okabe
- Oka wa hanazakari
1951
- The Idiot as Ono, Ayako's father
- Stolen Love as Sotaro Munekata
- Beyond Love and Hate
- Elegy
- The Life of a Horse Trader as Rokutaro Kosaka
- The Blue Pearl as Fujiki
- The Den of Beasts
- The Bitch as Wataru Horie
1950
- Rashomon as Woodcutter
- Scandal as Attorney Hiruta
- The Angry Street
- Town of Violence as Sagawa
- Devil's Gold
- Spring Snow as Kozo Yoshikawa
- Red Peony of Night
- Sanshiro of Ginza as Daizo Matsubara
- Escape from Prison
- Crazy Uproar
- Jiruba no Tetsu
1949
- Stray Dog as Det. Sato
- The Quiet Duel as Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki
- Lady From Hell
- A Woman's Life
- Goblin Courier
- The Elephant Who Waited
- A Bullet Hole Underground as Yuuzou Fujimoto
- Ishimatsu of the Forest
1948
- Drunken Angel as Sanada
- A Second Life
- My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain as Seibei Kido
1947
- Spring Awakens as Kenzô Ogura
- Snow Trail as Nojiri
- These Foolish Times
- Chikagai nijuyojikan
- Actress as Genshirō Kuramoto
1946
- No Regrets for Our Youth as Police Commissioner 'Poison Strawberry' Dokuichigo
- Those Who Make Tomorrow as Theatre manager (uncredited)
- An Enemy of the People
- Eleven High School Girls
- Lord for a Night
- Hinoki Butai
1945
- Three Women of the North
- Otome no iru kichi
- Tokkan ekichô
- To Love and Swear as Murai's father, principle
- Wakare mo tanoshi
1944
- The Way of Drama
- The Most Beautiful as Chief Goro Ishida
- Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron
- Nichijô no tatakai
- Sagohei the Three-footer as Yasukichi Ito
1943
- Sanshiro Sugata as Hansuke Murai, Sayo's father
- Navy as Takao Mutaguchi
1941
- Last Days of Edo as Enomoto
- Festival Across the Sea as Oil Seller
1940
1939
- Singing Lovebirds as Kyosai Shimura
- Shunjû ittôryû
- Devoted Servant Naosuke as Tsuda Echizennokami-Sukehiro
1938
1937
- Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba as Takusan
- Echo of Love
- Jiraiya as Gundayû Yao
1936
- Osaka Elegy as Inspector
- The Letter as Taranoshin Tsunomata