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Takashi Shimura

Highest Rated: 100% The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Lowest Rated: 60% 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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Highest rated movies

100% 92% The Bad Sleep Well
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100% 73% No Regrets for Our Youth
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100% 91% Stray Dog
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100% 95% Sanjuro
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98% 93% Rashomon
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98% 97% Ikiru
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96% 95% High and Low
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96% 96% Yojimbo
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96% 93% Throne of Blood
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Takashi Shimura

Takashi Shimura STRAY DOG, (aka NORA INU), Toshiro Mifune, Keiko Awaji, Takashi Shimura, 1949 IKIRU, Takashi Shimura, 1952 DRUNKEN ANGEL, (aka, YOIDORE TENSHI), from left: Takashi Shimura, Michiyo Kogure, 1948. 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 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 View more photos

Filmography

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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 57% Bullet Train JNR President (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 75% Zatoichi's Conspiracy Sakubei (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shin Abashiri Bangaichi: Runin-Masaki no Ketto Unknown (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: A Lion's Code 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 79% Japan's Longest Day Unknown (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Tunnel to the Sun Ashimura (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 53% 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
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Whale God Kujira Myoushu (Character) - 1962
80% 64% 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 44% The Mysterians Kenjiro Adachi (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stop the Old Fox Unknown (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beran Me-e Geisha 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
85% 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 35% Gigantis, the Fire Monster Kyohei Yamane-hakase (Character) - 1955
73% 76% I Live in Fear Harada (Character) - 1955
94% 89% Godzilla Dr. Kyohei Yamane (Character) - 1954
100% 97% Seven Samurai Kambei Shimada (Character) $487.3K 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
60% 73% The Idiot Ono (Character) - 1951
86% 72% Scandal Attorney Hiruta (Character) - 1950
98% 93% Rashomon Woodcutter (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet In The Woods Unknown (Character) - 1950
100% 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
86% 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