Takashi Shimura
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.
Born: March 12, 1905
Place of Birth: Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
Known For
The Man Who Came to Port
An Ishiro Honda film.
Talk of the Town Tora-san
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a unique assemblage exclusive to the Francophone market. Released by Les Films du Verseau.
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story.
The Roads Men Travel
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war.
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Filmography
as Hospital Director
as Taguchi Gyobu
as Ryuuson
as Hiroshi's Father
as Sen Rikyu
as Chikuin
as Dr. Yamane
as Motoki
as JNR President
as Pediatrician
as Bukichi Oura
as Sakubei
as Hiroshi's father
as Gondo
as Takeda
as Magoichi's father
as Hyôichirô Suwa
as Obu Toramasa
as Nagao Fusakage
as Dr. Junan
as Fortune Teller
as Ken's Father
as Taizo Matsui
as Ashimura
as Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura
as Sakamoto
as Misawa Heizaemon [Kingoro's father]
as Detective Egusa
as Hiroshima Army Hospital doctor
as Military Command president
as Mishima
as Tokubei Izumiya
as Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
as Narihisa Ichijō
as Dr. Tsukamoto
as Tsukamoto
as Onodera Juunai
as Kahei
as King Raksha
as Director of Iinuma Clinic
as Chief of Investigation Section
as Admiral
as Hyobu Chishaka
as Village elder
as Kensuke Sonoda
as Kurofuji
as Hisamitsu Ando
as Yahei
as News Editor
as Hacchônawate Tokubei
as Tokuemon, sake brewer
as Katagiri
as Honzo Kadokawa
as Administrative Officer Moriyama
as Chotaro Masue
as Tosaku
as Gohei Hirayama
as Sadonokami Honda
as Masagoro
as Elder Kumaso
as Ryoan
as Saemon Toki
as President Kakihara
as Dr. Yamane
as President Kakihara
as Kyusaku Inao
as General Izumi Nagakura
as Kasai
as Yasaburô
as Sagamiya
as Jûbei Ôtake
as Ijûin
as Dr. Tanjiro Adachi
as Banno
as Jinzō Iguchi
as Jinzō Iguchi
as Owner of the rice mill
as Dr. Yamane
as Sataro Hayakawa
as Noriyasu Odagura
as Daisuke Sakuma
as Dr. Yamane
as Furuya
as Nagasawa
as Hanako's Father
as Court official
as Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
as Insepctor Kasai
as Ensaburō Hiraoka
as "Sparrows" Coach Shimamura
as Kyohei Yamane-hakase
as Nobuo's father
as Kotaro Yamabe
as Kyohei Yamane
as Komazo
as Kambei Shimada
as Colonel A, staff officer of the army
as Watanabe (Nabesan)
as Okabe
as Kanji Watanabe
as Yoshimichi
as Kataoka
as Rokutaro Kosaka
as Wataru Horie
as Fujiki
as Sotaro Munekata
as Ono, Ayako's father
as Woodcutter
as Attorney Hiruta
as Daizo Matsubara
as Sagawa
as Det. Sato
as Yuuzou Fujimoto
as Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki
as Sanada
as Genshirō Kuramoto
as Kenzô Ogura
as Nojiri
as Police Commissioner 'Poison Strawberry' Dokuichigo
as Theatre manager (uncredited)
as Murai's father, principle
as Yasukichi Ito
as Chief Goro Ishida
as Takao Mutaguchi
as Hansuke Murai, Sayo's father
as Enomoto
as Kyosai Shimura
as Tsuda Echizennokami-Sukehiro
as Jozaemon Sakaya
as Takusan
as Taranoshin Tsunomata
as Inspector