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Takashi Shimura
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Takashi Shimura - what members say
review by IanStewart from Melton Mowbray, England
Breathtaking action, brilliant acting 19 August 2007
review by A customer from Chestefield
Genius but a bit slow this time. 5 August 2005
review by A customer from Edinburgh, Scotland
Great performance, not so great film 13 November 2006
Takashi Shimura - filmography
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Kagemusha
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kenichi Hagiwara, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawa's reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As uncompromising as ever, he found considerable difficulty securing backing for his ambitious projects. Unsure ..read more »
 
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from 4,097 members
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Zatoichi At The Blood Fest
(1973)
Starring: Shintaro Katsu, Yukiyo Toake, Takashi Shimura
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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Zatoichi meets up with a childhood friend, Shinbei, who has returned home a successful businessman. His home town is unable to pay its taxes and Shinbei pays the bill much to the town's delight. However, his intentions are far from pure as he is in league with a corrupt magistrate whose outsized ..read more »
63%
from 270 members
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The Ghidrah Three-Headed Monster
(1965)
Starring: Yosuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi
Director: Ishiro Honda
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A prophetess from Venus foretells cataclysmic disasters! Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan reappear in Japan, wreaking havoc! A giant meteor crashes into the mountains and the three-headed, fire-spitting space dragon King Ghidorah emerges! As the Venusian's prophecies come true, assassins from a tiny ..read more »
41%
from 10 members
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The Bad Sleep Well
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The rotten corporate world is taken on by Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune), who is looking for ..read more »
70%
from 822 members
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Hidden Fortress
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge ..read more »
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from 5,007 members
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Throne Of Blood
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson Welles's more faithful adaptation, Kurosawa chose to place a more personal stamp on his version by translating the events and characters to historical ..read more »
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from 5,891 members
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Godzilla Raids Again
(1955)
Starring: Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Motoyoshi Oda
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When two pilots accidentally end up on a small barren island they discover two huge monsters waging war before they fall into the ocean. Rushing back to Japan they inform the authorities of what they saw. Soon the world comes to realise that a monster closely resembling Godzilla is on the loose ..read more »
48%
from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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Seven Samurai
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Keiko Tsushima, Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's epic SEVEN SAMURAI follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The farmers know that when their crops are harvested, the thugs will attack, so four men go to town in hopes of employing samurai to ..read more »
73%
from 38,267 members
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Ikiru
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Miki Odagiri
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing of significance. After discovering he is suffering from a terminal illness, Kanji becomes intensely self-absorbed until he finds a mission to build a ..read more »
75%
from 3,923 members
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Scandal
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Noriko Sengoku
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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When a young painter meets up by chance with a popular singer, he is unaware that the paparazzi are following them. When a magazine runs a story exposing their 'secret romance', the painter battles to restore his honour.
67%
from 388 members
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Rashomon
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's highly acclaimed film, set in feudal Japan, presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters--a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), a woman (Machiko Kyo), her husband (Masayuki Mori), and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura). Only two ..read more »
72%
from 9,958 members
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Stray Dog
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's "Stray Dog" is a masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set on the sweltering mean streets of Occupied Tokyo. When rookie detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) has his pistol stolen from his pocket while on a bus, his frantic attempts to track down the thief lead him to an ..read more »
71%
from 2,346 members
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Drunken Angel
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reizaburo Yamamoto
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first auteur project. I finally discovered myself, he explained later. It was my picture: I was doing it and no one else. Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor, running a fleabitten clinic in the slums of Tokyo. ..read more »
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from 902 members
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Takashi Shimura facts
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...t acting from the entire ensemble (including the extras). Specially notable are Takashi Shimura as the senior samurai (with his 'gravitas' and competence, he kept on reminding...
