Takashi Shimura

Highest Rated:: 100% The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna) (1952)
Lowest Rated:: 70% I Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku) (1955)

Birthday:: Mar 12, 1905
Birthplace:: Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
Bio:: Whenever asked to name his favorite actors, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa would cite, with reservations, the unpredictable Toshiro Mifune--then would lavish unqualified praise upon Takashi Shimura. After a long stage career, Shimura made his first film in 1935. Eight years later, he worked for…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 70% - 100%

Number of Movies: 41

Box Office Since 2001: --

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
1980	86%	Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior) (The Double)	Gyobu Taguchi	--
1974		Zatoichi's Conspiracy (Zatoichi at the Blood Fest)	Sakubei	--
1974		Otoko wa tsurai yo (Am I Trying) (It's Tough Being a Man) (Tora-san Our Lovable Tramp)	Actor	--
1969		Otoko wa tsurai yo (It's Tough Being a Man) (Am I Trying)	Actor	--
1967		Japan's Longest Day	Information Chief	--
1965	82%	Akahige (Red Beard)	Tokubei Izumiya	--
1965		Samurai Assassin	Actor	--
1964		Furankenshutain tai chitei kaij� Baragon (Frankenstein Conquers the World)	Hiroshima Doctor	--
1964		Gorath	Kesuke Sonoda	--
1964		Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster	Actor	--
1964	81%	Kaidan (Kwaidan) (Ghost Stories)	Priest	--
1962	100%	Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanj�r�)	Kurofuji	--
1962		Yosei Gorasu (Gorath) (Astronaut 1980)	Actor	--
1962		Chushingura	Hyobe Chishaka	--
1962	100%	The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well)	Actor	--
1962	93%	High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (Heaven and Hell)	Director	--
1961	97%	Yojimbo	Tokuemon	--
1961	70%	Mosura (Mothra)	News Editor	--
1960		Karakkaze Yar� (Afraid to Die)	Actor	--
1959		Mysterians	Actor	--
1958	100%	The Hidden Fortress (kakushi-toride No San-akunin)	The Old General Izumi Nagakura	--
1957	97%	Kumonosu J� (Throne of Blood) (Macbeth)	Noriyasu Odagura	--
1956		Miyamoto Musashi Kanketsuhen: Kett� Ganry�jima (Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island) (Bushido)	Court Official	--
1956	82%	Godzilla, King of the Monsters!	Dr. Kyohei Yamane	--
1955	70%	I Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku)	Actor	--
1954	93%	Gojira	Dr. Kyohei Yamane	--
1954	100%	Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)	Kambei leader of samurai	--
1952	100%	Ikiru (Doomed) (Living) (To Live)	Kanji Watanabe	--
1952	100%	The Life of Oharu (Saikaku ichidai onna)	Old Man	--
1951	75%	Hakuchi (The Idiot)	Actor	--
1951	100%	Rash�mon (Rashomon) (In the Woods)	Woodcutter	--
1950		Scandal (Shubun)	Hiruta	--
1949		Shizukanaru ketto (The Quiet Duel) (A Silent Duel)	Konosuie Fujisaki	--
1949	94%	Stray Dog (Nora inu)	Sato the Head Detective	--
1948	100%	Drunken Angel	Dr. Sanada	--
1946		Waga Seishun ni Kuinashi (No Regrets for Our Youth)	Police Commissioner	--
1945		Zoku Sugata Sanshiro (Sanshiro Sugata 2) (Judo Saga II) (Judo Story II)	Actor	--
1945	83%	They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) (Walkers on the Tiger's Tail)	Actor	--
1944		The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku)	Actor	--
1943		Sugata Sanshiro (Judo Saga) (Judo Story)	Hansuke Murai	--
1939		Oshidori Utagassen	Actor	--

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1. Kanji Watanabe: Life is brief. Fall in love, maidens. Before the crimson bloom. Fades from your lips. Before the tides of passion. Cool within you, For those of you. Who know no tomorrow.
From Ikiru (Doomed) (Living) (To Live). Submitted by Garrett C (14 days ago)

1. Kambei leader of samurai: So. Again we are defeated. The farmers have won. Not us.
From Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai). Submitted by Detruire C (3 months ago)