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      Takashi Shimura

      Takashi Shimura

      Highest Rated: 100% Seven Samurai (1954)

      Lowest Rated: 64% The Idiot (1951)

      Birthday: Mar 12, 1905

      Birthplace: Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan

      Serene leading man of Japanese film who made his screen debut in the early 1940s. Shimura is most widely known as the ringleader in the classic "Seven Samurai" (1954) and appeared in several other films directed by Akira Kurosawa, including "Rashomon" (1950) and "Throne of Blood" (1957).

      Highest rated movies

      100% Sanjuro
      100% The Bad Sleep Well
      100% Seven Samurai
      100% No Regrets for Our Youth
      98% Ikiru
      98% Rashomon
      96% High and Low
      96% Yojimbo

      Photos

      THE SEVEN SAMURAI, (aka SHICHININ NO SAMURAI) Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Daisuke Kato, Toshiro Mifune, Isao Kimura (aka Ko Kimura), 1954 THE SEVEN SAMURAI, (aka SHICHININ NO SAMURAI), Isao Kimura, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, 1954. GODZILLA, (aka GOJIRA), Takashi Shimura, 1954 DRUNKEN ANGEL, (aka, YOIDORE TENSHI), from left: Takashi Shimura, Michiyo Kogure, 1948. IKIRU, Takashi Shimura, 1952 GODZILLA, (aka GOJIRA), Akira Takarada, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, 1954 STRAY DOG, (aka NORA INU), Toshiro Mifune, Keiko Awaji, Takashi Shimura, 1949 DRUNKEN ANGEL, (aka YOIDORE TENSHI), Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, 1948 I LIVE IN FEAR, (aka IKIMONO NO KIROKU, aka RECORD OF A LIVING BEING), Haruko Togo, Eiko Miyoshi, Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune (standing, center), Minoru Chiaki (standing, striped tie), Yutaka Sada (far right), 1955 STRAY DOG, (aka NORA INU), from left: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, 1949 IKIRU, Takashi Shimura, 1952 THE SEVEN SAMURAI, (aka SHICHININ NO SAMURAI), Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, 1954. STRAY DOG, (aka NORA INU), Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, 1949 I LIVE IN FEAR, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, 1955 IKIRU, Miki Odagiri, Takashi Shimura, 1952 GODZILLA, (aka GOJIRA), Akira Takarada, Toyoaki Suzuki, Kokuten Kodo (foreground), Momoko Kochi, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, 1954 YOJIMBO, Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, (back), Takashi Shimura, (r), 1961. I LIVE IN FEAR, Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, 1955 GODZILLA, (aka GOJIRA), Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi, 1954 IKIRU, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Takashi Shimura, 1952

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Revolt Kosuke Miyagi (Character) - 1980
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Love and Fate Sen Rikyu (Character) - 1978
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Days of Planet Earth Pediatrician (Character) - 1975
      No Score Yet 56% Bullet Train JNR President (Character) - 1975
      No Score Yet 75% Zatoichi's Conspiracy Sakubei (Character) - 1973
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: A Lion's Code Unknown (Character) - 1969
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Runin-Masaki no Ketto Unknown (Character) - 1969
      No Score Yet 83% The Blind Swordsman and the Fugitives Dr. Junan (Character) - 1968
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Industrial Spy Unknown (Character) - 1968
      No Score Yet 78% Japan's Longest Day Unknown (Character) - 1968
      No Score Yet No Score Yet A Tunnel to the Sun Ashimura (Character) - 1968
      No Score Yet 54% Frankenstein Conquers the World Axis Scientist (Character) - 1966
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Impudent Vixen Tatsugoro Noguchi (Character) - 1966
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Protector Unknown (Character) - 1966
      77% 59% Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster Dr. Tsukamoto (Character) - 1965
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Snake Princess: Oshima Sentaro Juzo Ichikawa (Character) - 1965
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Code of Ruffians Genkichi Jinnai (Character) - 1965
      No Score Yet 83% Samurai Assassin Narihisa Ichijô (Character) - 1965
      96% 95% High and Low Director (Character) - 1963
      100% 95% Sanjuro Kurofuji (Character) - 1962
      No Score Yet 38% Gorath Kensuke Sonoda (Character) - 1962
      80% 63% Mothra News Editor (Character) - 1961
      96% 96% Yojimbo Tokuemon (Character) - 1961
      No Score Yet No Score Yet I Bombed Pearl Harbor Tosaku (Character) - 1961
      No Score Yet 64% Afraid to Die Gohei Hirayama (Character) - 1960
      100% 92% The Bad Sleep Well Administrative Officer Moriyama (Character) - 1960
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Salaryman Chushingura Unknown (Character) - 1960
      No Score Yet 50% The Mysterians Kenjiro Adachi (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Beran Me-e Geisha Unknown (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Stop the Old Fox Unknown (Character) - 1959
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Three Treasures Unknown (Character) - 1959
      96% 92% The Hidden Fortress The Old General, Izumi Nagakura (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Ten to Sen Unknown (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion Unknown (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lord Takes a Bride Unknown (Character) - 1957
      96% 93% Throne of Blood Noriyasu Odagura (Character) - 1957
      84% 73% Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Dr. Yamane (Character) $148.9K 1956
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Three Women Around Yoshinaka Unknown (Character) - 1956
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Underworld Unknown (Character) - 1956
      No Score Yet 36% Gigantis, the Fire Monster Kyohei Yamane-hakase (Character) - 1955
      75% 76% I Live in Fear Harada (Character) - 1955
      94% 89% Godzilla Dr. Kyohei Yamane (Character) - 1954
      100% 97% Seven Samurai Kambei Shimada (Character) $271.7K 1954
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Last Embrace Unknown (Character) - 1953
      98% 97% Ikiru Kanji Watanabe (Chief of Citizen's Section) (Character) $55.2K 1952
      No Score Yet 60% Vendetta of a Samurai Unknown (Character) - 1952
      64% 73% The Idiot Ono (Character) - 1951
      88% 72% Scandal Attorney Hiruta (Character) - 1950
      98% 93% Rashomon Woodcutter (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet No Score Yet In The Woods Unknown (Character) - 1950
      96% 91% Stray Dog Sato (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet 73% The Quiet Duel Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki (Character) - 1949
      94% 88% Drunken Angel Doctor Sanada (Character) - 1948
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Yoidore Tenshi Unknown (Character) - 1948
      100% 73% No Regrets for Our Youth Police Commissioner "Poison Strawberry" Dokuichigo (Character) - 1946
      88% 58% The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail Kataoka (Character) - 1945
      No Score Yet 28% The Most Beautiful Chief Goro Ishida (Character) - 1944
      80% 65% Sanshiro Sugata Hansuke Murai (Character) - 1943
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Singing Lovebirds Kyosai Shimura (Character) - 1939
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Chikemuri Takadanobaba Takusan (Character) - 1937
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Capricious Young Man Taranoshin Tsunomata (Character) - 1936