Takashi Shimura

Actor · Born 12 March 1905 in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan · Died 11 February 1982 · 10 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

10 of Takashi Shimura’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 10 on Cineasterna. Highest rated available: Seven Samurai (1954) ★ 8.6.

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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.

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Acting

• High and Low (1963)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Godzilla (1954)
• Red Beard (1965)
• Rashomon (1950)
• Yojimbo (1961)
• The Hidden Fortress (1958)
• Throne of Blood (1957)
• Sanjuro (1962)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Kagemusha (1980)
• Kwaidan (1965)
• Stray Dog (1949)
• Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
• Drunken Angel (1948)
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
• The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
• Mothra (1961)
• Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
• Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
• The Idiot (1951)