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
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