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    Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981....
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    Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives...
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  • footballer Takako Shimura (志村 貴子, born 1973), Japanese manga artist Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, 1905–1982), Japanese actor Yoshio Shimura (志村 義夫, born 1940)...
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    The film stars Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, and Takashi Shimura, with Haruo Nakajima as Godzilla and Katsumi Tezuka as Anguirus. In...
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    The film stars Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura, with Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as Godzilla. In the film, Japan's...
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    written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Shirley Yamaguchi. Ichiro Aoye (Toshiro Mifune), an artist, meets...
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    examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired...
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    Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Susumu Fujita, and Takashi Shimura, with Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as Mogera. In the film, Earth's...
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    directed and co-written by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. It was Kurosawa's second film of 1949 produced by the Film Art Association...
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    farm in Brazil. The film stars Kurosawa regulars Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, and is the director's last with composer Fumio Hayasaka, who died...
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    Yukiko Todoroki as Sayo Murai Ryūnosuke Tsukigata as Gennosuke Higaki Takashi Shimura as Hansuke Murai Ranko Hanai as Osumi Kodana Sugisaku Aoyama as Tsunetami...
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    Miyagawa. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura as various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest...
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    the focus from the title character, the alcoholic doctor played by Takashi Shimura, who had already appeared in several Kurosawa movies. However, Kurosawa...
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  • early Occupation of Japan. The film stars Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura and Denjirō Ōkōchi. Fujita's character was inspired by the real-life...
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    the film, Takashi Shimura, later became long-term collaborators of film director Akira Kurosawa. Three bank robbers (Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Yoshio...
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    for the samurai: "The victory belongs to those peasants. Not to us." Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada (島田勘兵衛, Shimada Kambei), a war-weary but honorable...
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    Japanese footballer Takashi Shimura (志村 喬, 1905–1982), Japanese actor Takashi Sorimachi (反町 隆史, born 1973), Japanese singer and actor Takashi Tamura (田村 孝,...
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    dragon Orochi. Toshiro Mifune as Prince Yamato Takeru and Susanoo Takashi Shimura as Elder Kumaso Kōji Tsuruta as Younger Kumaso Nakamura Ganjirō II...
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    Eijirō Yanagi as forger Chieko Higashiyama as Myokai, the old nun Takashi Shimura as old man Benkei Shiganoya as Jihei Komako Hara as Otsubone Kuzui...
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    collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Sanada (Takashi Shimura) is an alcoholic doctor (the titular "drunken angel") in postwar Japan...
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    footage produced by Jewell Enterprises. The film stars Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kōchi, Akira Takarada, and Akihiko Hirata, with Haruo Nakajima...
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  • February 11 Eleanor Powell, American dancer and actress (b. 1912) Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905) February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor...
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    to go home. She refuses to go and cries while continuing her work. Takashi Shimura as Chief Goro Ishida Soji Kiyokawa as Soichi Yoshikawa Ichiro Sugai...
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    Nishina as Yoshitsune Susumu Fujita as Togashi Masayuki Mori as Kamei Takashi Shimura as Kataoka Ken'ichi Enomoto as porter Akitake Kōno as Ise Yoshio Kosugi...
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  • functional equivalent of Kambei Shimada, the character portrayed by Takashi Shimura in the 1954 film Seven Samurai. Adams, a Cajun, is the laconic leader...
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  • Iwabuchi Kyōko Kagawa - Yoshiko Nishi Tatsuya Mihashi - Tatsuo Iwabuchi Takashi Shimura - Administrative Officer Moriyama Kō Nishimura - Contract Officer Shirai...
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    Nonagase, Takao Saito, Toshiro Mifune (in the jeep), Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Teruyo Nogami (scripter), Yoshirō Muraki, Akira Kurosawa, Hiroshi...
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  • directed by Kazuo Mori made for Toho and starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. The script was written by Akira Kurosawa. Araki Mataemon (Toshiro...
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  • Kagemusha for his longtime regular actor Takashi Shimura, and Kagemusha was the last Kurosawa film in which Shimura appeared. However, the scene in which...
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  • directed a stage adaptation of his acclaimed 1948 film (see above), with Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune playing the same roles they played in the movie...
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