Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-03-12 (77 years old)
Deathday
1982-02-11
Place of Birth
Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
Also known As
Shoji Shimazaki
島崎捷爾
تاکاشی شیمورا
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 Ri...
1958
as General Izumi Nagakura
1950
as Woodcutter
1954
as Kyohei Yamane
1955
as Kyohei Yamane-hakase
1965
as Hiroshima Army Hospital doctor
1957
as Noriyasu Odagura
1965
as Tokubei Izumiya
1952
as Kanji Watanabe
1953
1950
1950
1981
1949
as Det. Sato
1965
as Head Priest (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
1955
as Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
1956
as Court official
1962
as Kurofuji
1960
as Administrative Officer Moriyama
1951
as Ono, Ayako's father
1980
as Taguchi Gyobu
1961
as Tokuemon, sake brewer
1948
as Sanada
1950
as Attorney Hiruta
1963
as Chief of Investigation Section
1954
as Kotaro Yamabe
1943
as Hansuke Murai, Sayo's father
1945
as Murai's father, principle
1952
as Kataoka
1957
as Dr. Tanjiro Adachi
1946
as Police Commissioner 'Poison Strawberry' Dokuichigo
1949
as Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki
1936
as Inspector
1951
as Sotaro Munekata
1962
as Hyobu Chishaka
1962
1960
as Gohei Hirayama
1964
as Dr. Tsukamoto
1950
as Daizo Matsubara
1945
1967
as Information Bureau Director Hiroshi Shimomura
1944
as Chief Goro Ishida
1961
as News Editor
1939
1956
as Dr. Yamane
1963
as Admiral
1968
as Dr. Junan
1973
as Sakubei
1956
1965
as Narihisa Ichijō
1957
as Dr. Yamane
1947
as Nojiri
1936
as Taranoshin Tsunomata
1962
1961
as Hisamitsu Ando
1968
as Ashimura
1959
as Elder Kumaso
1970
as Takeda
1949
as Yuuzou Fujimoto
1938
1940
1971
as Hiroshi's father
1962
1947
as Kenzô Ogura
1957
1978
as Sen Rikyu
1963
as King Raksha
1937
as Gundayû Yao
1958
1957
1960
as Honzo Kadokawa
1943
as Takao Mutaguchi
1966
as Detective Egusa
1938
1968
1965
as Mishima
1954
as Komazo
1961
as Hacchônawate Tokubei
1957
1938
as Jozaemon Sakaya
1937
1977
as Dr. Yamane
1978
as Hiroshi's Father
1962
as Kensuke Sonoda
1969
as Hyôichirô Suwa
1940
1962
as Village elder
1958
as Sagamiya
1960
as Tosaku
1953
as Colonel A, staff officer of the army
1965
1959
as Masagoro
1968
1980
1944
1950
1961
as Katagiri
1959
as Saemon Toki
1939
as Kyosai Shimura
1958
as Kasai
1958
as Yasaburô
1957
as Banno
1958
as Jûbei Ôtake
1951
as Rokutaro Kosaka
1950
as Sagawa
1952
1952
as Yoshimichi
1953
as Watanabe (Nabesan)
1955
as "Sparrows" Coach Shimamura
1956
as Furuya
1960
as Chotaro Masue
1964
as Tsukamoto
1965
as Military Command president
1965
1966
1966
1967
as Sakamoto
1952
1969
as Magoichi's father
1964
1975
as JNR President
1968
as Fortune Teller
1967
1946
as Theatre manager (uncredited)
1959
as Ryoan
1941
as Oil Seller
1968
as Taizo Matsui
1968
as Ken's Father
1955
as Nobuo's father
1951
as Fujiki
1957
as Owner of the rice mill
1958
1966
1959
1963
as Kahei
1937
as Takusan
1959
as Dr. Yamane
1969
as Obu Toramasa
1938
1956
as Hanako's Father
1951
as Wataru Horie
1960
as Sadonokami Honda
1952
as Okabe
1959
as Kyusaku Inao
1956
as Nagasawa
1980
as Ryuuson
1956
1974
as Pediatrician
1954
as Kambei Shimada
1950
1947
as Genshirō Kuramoto
1956
1949
1958
1954
1955
as Insepctor Kasai
1948
1961
as Yahei
1965
1944
as Yasukichi Ito
1974
as Bukichi Oura
1950
1951
1946
1941
as Enomoto
1939
as Tsuda Echizennokami-Sukehiro
1935
1949
1949
1958
as Ijûin
1971
as Gondo
1961
1981
as Hospital Director
1963
as Director of Iinuma Clinic
1955
1976
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