Takashi Shimura
Biography:
Whenever asked to name his favorite actors, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa would cite, with reservations, the unpredictable Toshiro Mifune--then would lavish unqualified praise upon Takashi Shimura. After a long stage career, Shimura made his first film in 1935. Eight years later, he worked for Kurosawa for the first time in Sansh... Continue Bio >>
Filmography:
1981 Honoo No Daigo Gakusho
1980 Kagemusha
1978 Oginsaga
1975 The Last Days of Planet Earth
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