Koji Shima
Born: 1901-02-16 in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Died: 1986-09-10
Known For: Directing
Biography
Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He was in the first class of the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō and joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. Playing mostly romantic leads, he appeared in films directed by such masters as Tomu Uchida and Kenji Mizoguchi. He turned to directing in 1939, and quickly came to prominence with films such as Kaze no Matasaburō, an adaption of a Kenji Miyazawa story, and Jirō Monogatari. After the war, he directed such films as Ginza Kankan Musume and Jūdai no Seiten at Shintoho and Daiei Studios. He won a prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival for Unforgettable Trail. Some of his last films were made in Hong Kong for Shaw Brothers. He directed over 90 films as a director and appeared in over 90 films as an actor. He was once married to the actress Yukiko Todoroki.
Filmography
1970
- The Orchid ... (Director)
- Love Song Over the Sea ... (Director)
1969
- Dear Murderer ... (Director)
- 裸尸痕 ... (Director)
- Tropicana Interlude ... (Director)
1968
- The Pit of Death ... (Director)
1967
- Ambassador Ramen ... (Director)
1966
- Shojo jutai ... (Director)
- わが愛を星に祈りて ... (Director)
- That Complicated Guy ... (Director)
1965
- The Story of a Blind Woman ... (Director)
- 六人の女を殺した男 ... (Director)
1964
- Muchana Yakko ... (Director)
- Asphalt Girl ... (Director)
1963
- Teinen Taishoku ... (Director)
1962
- 情熱の詩人啄木 ... (Director)
- Akiko ... (Director)
- Otoko to onna no sei no naka ... (Director)
1961
- Wakai nakama ... (Director)
- 夕やけ小やけの赤とんぼ ... (Director)
1960
- The Priest and the Beauty ... (Director)
- The Beloved Image ... (Director)
- The Grave Tells All ... (Director)
1959
- The Makioka Sisters ... (Director)
- The Path I Remember ... (Screenplay)
1958
- Shogun's Holiday ... (Director)
- Musume no boken ... (Director)
- Thirst ... (Director)
- The Cat Knew ... (Director)
- Chance Meeting ... (Director)
1957
- Bojô no kawa ... (Director)
- Nine Hours of Terror ... (Director)
1956
- Warning from Space ... (Director)
- A Rainbow at Every Turn ... (Director)
- Cascading White Threads ... (Screenplay)
- Zangiku monogatari ... (Director)
1955
- New Women’s Dialogue ... (Director)
- The Phantom Horse ... (Director)
1954
- The Golden Demon ... (Director)
- Asakusa at Night ... (Director)
- A Geisha on Horseback ... (Director)
1953
- Lady Chatterley of Japan ... (Director)
- Jūdai no seiten ... (Director)
- Made in Japan ... (Director)
1952
- Lil's Return from Shanghai ... (Director)
- 風の噂のリル ... (Director)
1951
- Hibari no komoriuta ... (Director)
1950
- Mado Kara Tobidase ... (Screenplay)
1949
- Ginza Cancan Girls ... (Director)
1947
- A Thousand and One Nights with Toho ... (Writer)
- Todoroki Sensei ... (Director)
1941
- Tale of Jiro ... (Director)
1940
- Kaze no Matasaburô ... (Director)
1937
1930
- Mistress of a Foreigner as Tsurumatsu
1929
- Tokyo March
- Sweat as Heizaemon Kitayama