Takashi Shimura in Gojira | 1954

Clip Name: Serizawa's Death

491 Views

Takashi Shimura in Gojira | 1954

Starring: Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi and Akihiko Hirata
Directed by: Ishirô Honda
About this actor
aircraft basement books bridge burning coast guard countryside crowded dark deadly deck education explosives fish tank frigate government health home hospital house japan kablooey! (destruction and demolition) lab equipment laboratory living room night office oxygen destroyer refugees rocking sea sea shore ship tank tokyo train underwater urban village wilderness

Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshirō Mifune, Shimura is the actor who is most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa. Shimura appeared in 21 of Kurosawa's 30 films. His roles include the doctor in Drunken Angel (1948), the veteran detective in Stray Dog (1949), the flawed lawyer in Scandal (1950), the woodcutter in Rashomon (1950), the mortally ill bureaucrat in Ikiru (1952), the lead samurai Kambei in Seven Samurai (1954). In fact, Kurosawa's cinematic collaboration with Shimura, from 1943 to 1980, started earlier and lasted longer than his work with Mifune (1948-65). Shimura appeared in the director's debut film Sanshiro Sugata (1943), and the last film of Kurosawa's in which he acted was Kagemusha (1980), for which Kurosawa...

Related movies by Genre 1 OF 3

Related movies by Actors 1 OF 1

Related movies by Directors 1 OF 1

Recommended Clips