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Takashi Shimura
Highest Rated: 100% The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
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).
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| 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 | 60% | 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% | 94% | Throne of Blood | Noriyasu Odagura (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 83% | 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 |
| 93% | 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% | 89% | 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 |