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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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In this dazzling epic from Akira Kurosawa, a petty thief named Kagemusha (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets saved from a death sentence because he resembles the warlord Shingen Takeda (also Nakadai). The warlord has been fighting two other leaders for control of 16th-century Japan and impersonators often take ...
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Zatoichi At The Blood Fest
on DVD (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 ...
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Hidden Fortress
on DVD (1958)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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During a civil war in 16th-century feudal Japan, two cowardly farmers (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara) stumble upon Makabe (Toshiro Mifune), a fierce army general. Escaping from hostile territory, General Makabe embarks on a mission to rescue both Yukihime (Misa Uehara), the willfull princess ...
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Throne Of Blood
on DVD (1957)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's stunning reconception of Shakespeare's MACBETH is a dark samurai drama, full of powerful and haunting images. Set in feudal Japan, the film follows the path of an ambitious warlord (Toshiro Mifune) who fulfills a prophecy stating that he will become emperor. However, he achieves ...
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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 ...
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Seven Samurai
on DVD (1954)
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Stray Dog
on DVD (1949)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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The setting for this Akira Kurosawa film noir is Tokyo in the late 1940s, its streets blasted by war and its economy in collapse. When Murakami, a young detective (Toshiro Mifune, in one of his earliest roles), loses his gun to a thief, he must descend into a hell teeming with shady characters to ...
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Kagemusha
for Download (1980)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kenichi Hagiwara, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Run time: 153 minutes
In this dazzling epic from Akira Kurosawa, a petty thief named Kagemusha (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets saved from a death sentence because he resembles the warlord Shingen Takeda (also Nakadai). The warlord has been fighting two other leaders for control of 16th-century Japan and impersonators often take ...
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Breathtaking action, brilliant acting 19 August 2007
...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...
Genius but a bit slow this time. 5 August 2005
