Kōji 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
- Love Song Over the Sea ... (Director)
- The Orchid ... (Director)
1969
- 裸尸痕 ... (Director)
- Tropicana Interlude ... (Director)
- Dear Murderer ... (Screenplay)
1968
- The Pit of Death ... (Director)
1967
- Ambassador Ramen ... (Director)
1966
- That Complicated Guy ... (Director)
- わが愛を星に祈りて ... (Director)
- Shojo jutai ... (Director)
1965
- The Man Who Killed Six Women ... (Director)
- The Story of a Blind Woman ... (Director)
1964
- Asphalt Girl ... (Director)
- Muchana Yakko ... (Director)
1963
- Teinen Taishoku ... (Director)
1962
- 情熱の詩人啄木 ... (Director)
- Otoko to onna no sei no naka ... (Director)
- Akiko ... (Director)
1961
- Wakai nakama ... (Director)
- 夕やけ小やけの赤とんぼ ... (Director)
1960
- Anchin and Kiyohime ... (Director)
- The Grave Tells All ... (Director)
- The Beloved Image ... (Director)
1959
- Various Flowers ... (Director)
- The Makioka Sisters ... (Director)
- The Path I Remember ... (Director)
- Shōbushi to sono musume ... (Director)
1958
- My Son's Revolt ... (Director)
- Tokai toiu minato ... (Director)
- Shogun's Holiday ... (Director)
- Thirst ... (Director)
- Musume no boken ... (Director)
- Chance Meeting ... (Director)
- The Cat Knew ... (Director)
1957
- Escape from Temptation ... (Director)
- A Woman's Skin ... (Director)
- Bojô no kawa ... (Director)
- Nine Hours of Terror ... (Director)
1956
- New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune ... (Director)
- Warning from Space ... (Director)
- A Rainbow at Every Turn ... (Director)
- Cascading White Threads ... (Screenplay)
- Zangiku monogatari ... (Director)
1955
- Miss Teacher ... (Screenplay)
- The Phantom Horse ... (Director)
- New Women’s Dialogue ... (Director)
1954
- Woman of Fire ... (Director)
- The Golden Demon ... (Director)
- Asakusa at Night ... (Director)
- A Geisha on Horseback ... (Director)
- Autumn Interlude ... (Director)
1953
- Asakusa monogatari ... (Director)
- Koshō musuko ... (Screenplay)
- Made in Japan ... (Director)
- Jūdai no seiten ... (Director)
- Lady Chatterley of Japan ... (Director)
1952
- Zoku bakurō ichidai ... (Director)
- Aru yoru no dekigoto ... (Director)
- Lil's Return from Shanghai ... (Adaptation)
- 風の噂のリル ... (Director)
1951
- Hibari no komoriuta ... (Director)
1950
- Mado Kara Tobidase ... (Screenplay)
1949
- Good-Bye! ... (Director)
- Kyō ware renaisu ... (Director)
- Ginza Cancan Girls ... (Director)
1948
- Enoken no bikkuri shakkuri jidai ... (Director)
- Unmei no koyomi ... (Director)
- The Thief of Moonlight Castle ... (Director)
1947
- The Little Green Box ... (Director)
- A Thousand and One Nights with Toho ... (Writer)
- Todoroki Sensei ... (Director)
1946
- Kimi ka to omohite ... (Director)
1943
- All-out Attack on Singapore ... (Director)
- Twelve Hours Before Departure ... (Director)
1942
- Yamasandō ... (Director)
1941
- The Tale of Jiro ... (Director)
1940
- Kaze no Matasaburô ... (Director)
1937
1930
- Mistress of a Foreigner as Tsurumatsu
1929
- Tokyo March
- Sweat as Heizaemon Kitayama