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Acting
March 12, 1905
February 11, 1982
Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
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.

Self
2002

1981

Hospital Director
1981

Taguchi Gyobu
1980

1980

Ryuuson
1980

1980

Hiroshi's Father
1978

1978

Sen Rikyu
1978

as Self


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 Tobei

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 Oil Seller




as Kyosai Shimura

as Tsuda Echizennokami-Sukehiro



as Jozaemon Sakaya



as Gundayû Yao

as Takusan


as Taranoshin Tsunomata

as Inspector