Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was one of Japan's greatest actors of the 20th century.
He was born in Ikuno, Asago, Hyōgo, Japan.
His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (赤西蠣太; Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (浪華悲歌, 1936).
In company with Toshirō Mifune, Shimura is the actor who is most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa. Shimura appeared in ma...
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Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was one of Japan's greatest actors of the 20th century.
He was born in Ikuno, Asago, Hyōgo, Japan.
His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (赤西蠣太; Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (浪華悲歌, 1936).
In company with Toshirō Mifune, Shimura is the actor who is most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa. Shimura appeared in many of Kurosawa's 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, lasted longer and was more prolific than his work (1948-65) with Mifune. Shimura appeared in the director's debut film Sanshiro Sugata (1943), and the last film of...
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