Koji Shima

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-02-16 (85 years old)

Deathday

1986-09-10

Place of Birth

Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Koji Shima

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 Festiva...

Production

1963

Teinen Taishoku

as Director

1956

1960

1960

The Beloved Image

as Screenplay

1964

Muchana Yakko

as Director

1956

1941

Tale of Jiro

as Director

1954

The Golden Demon

as Director

1969

1970

The Orchid

as Director

1955

1950

1950

Mado Kara Tobidase

as Screenplay

1955

1953

Made in Japan

as Director

1968

The Pit of Death

as Director

1954

1954

1958

Shogun's Holiday

as Director

1949

1956

1959

1954

Asakusa at Night

as Director

1954

1958

Musume no boken

as Director

1954

1969

Dear Murderer

as Screenplay

1969

Dear Murderer

as Director

1970

1962

1955

1955

1947

Todoroki Sensei

as Director

1969

Tropicana Interlude

as Screenplay

1958

Chance Meeting

as Director

1962

Akiko

as Director

1951

1959

1959

The Path I Remember

as Screenplay

1953

Jūdai no seiten

as Director

1940

1966

1955

The Phantom Horse

as Screenplay

1957

1957

1958

Thirst

as Director

1966

Shojo jutai

as Director

1958

The Cat Knew

as Director

1969

裸尸痕

as Director

1969

裸尸痕

as Screenplay

1967

Ambassador Ramen

as Director

1964

Asphalt Girl

as Director

1952

1961

Wakai nakama

as Director

1961

Wakai nakama

as Screenplay

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