Takashi Shimura

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Shimura around 1956

Takashi Shimura ( Japanese 志 村 喬 , Shimura Takashi , civil: 島 崎 捷爾 , Shimazaki Shōji ; born March 12, 1905 in Ikuno ; † February 11, 1982 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese actor.

biography

Takashi Shimura had one of his first film roles in Elegy in Naniwa by Kenji Mizoguchi . He was famous as the actor who appears next to Toshirō Mifune most often in Akira Kurosawa's films. For example, as the leader of a group of samurai in The Seven Samurai . The collaboration with Kurosawa lasted from 1943 to 1980 and was thus longer than that of Mifune and Kurosawa (1948–1965). The scenes of his last collaboration with Kurosawa from the film Kagemusha - The Warrior's Shadow were cut out for western cinema. They are only preserved in the original.

Outside of this collaboration, Takashi Shimura is known to western audiences through appearances in various Japanese monster films, including a. as the scientist Kyōhei Yamane in the first two Godzilla films.

Takashi Shimura died on February 11, 1982 in Tokyo of complications from a lung disease at the age of 76.

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SURNAME Shimura, Takashi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 志 村 喬 (Japanese); 島 崎 捷爾 (Japanese, real name); Shimazaki Shōji (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Ikuno (today: Asago ), Hyogo Prefecture , Japan
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1982
Place of death Tokyo , Japan