(1905–2004) was a Japanese

film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ...

Filmography

Shōgo Shimada appeared in 49 films from 1951 to 1995. * '' Natsumatsuri Sandogasa'' (1951) - Shinzô * ''

Kunisada Chūji was a popular figure in the Edo period. He was a bakuto (gamblers commonly seen as forerunners to the modern yakuza). His story is mainly responsible for the romanticised "chivalrous bandit" or "Robin Hood" image in Japan. An example was when ...

'' (1954) - Enzô * ''Jigoku no kengô Hirate Miki'' (1954) - Shûsaku Chiba * '' Kutsukake Tokijirō'' (1954) - Kutsukake Tokijirō * ''

Rokunin no Ansatsusha is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film drama directed by Eisuke Takizawa. The film won 1956 Blue Ribbon Awards for best screenplay by Ryūzō Kikushima.Satan's Sword is a 1960 Japanese samurai film directed by Kenji Misumi, written by Teinosuke Kinugasa, and produced by Masaichi Nagata. The film stars Raizō Ichikawa as samurai Ryunosuke Tsukue, alongside Kojiro Hongo, Tamao Nakamura, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ke ...

'' (1960) - Shimada Toranosuke * ''

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold is a 1964 Japanese Chambara film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi, originally released by the Daiei Motion Picture Company (later acquired by Kadokawa Pictures). It also stars Tomisaburo Wakayama who ...

'' (1964) * ''Showa zankyo-den: Ippiki okami'' (1966) * ''

Japan's Longest Day is a 1967 Japanese war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945 and noon on August 15, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender to the Allies in World W ...

'' (日本のいちばん長い日 Nihon no ichiban nagai hi) (1967) - Lt. General Takeshi Mori - CO 1st Imperial Guards Division * ''Yûbue'' (1967) - Ginzô Tsutsui * ''Jinsei-gekijô: Hishakaku to kiratsune'' (1968) * ''Aa, kaigun'' (1970) - Admiral

Isoroku Yamamoto was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II until he was killed. Yamamoto held several important posts in the IJN, and undertook many of its changes and reor ...

* ''Ezo yakata no ketto'' (1970) - Jirozaemon Ezo * ''Hana to namida to honoo'' (1970) - Seijuro Fujihana * ''

Tora! Tora! Tora! ''Tora! Tora! Tora!'' ( ja, トラ・トラ・トラ！) is a 1970 epic film, epic war film that dramatizes the Empire of Japan, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The film was produced by Elmo Williams and directed by Richard Fleischer, T ...

'' (1970) - Ambassador

Kichisaburō Nomura was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was the List of ambassadors of Japan to the United States, ambassador to the United States at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Early life and career Nomura was born in Wakayama, Wakayama, ...

* '' Nihon Chinbotsu'' (''Tidal Wave'') (1973) - Watari (Political Fixer) * ''

Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon is a 1974 Japanese film based on the Soviet Union's invasion of Karafuto during the Soviet–Japanese War near the end of World War II. The movie is set in Maoka (present day Kholmsk), and the story is based on the deaths of nine women who worked ...

'' (1974) * '' Mount Hakkoda'' (1977) - General Tomoda * '' Blue Christmas'' (1978) * '' Nogiku no Haka'' ("The Wild Daisy") (1981) * '' The Challenge'' (1982) - Toru Yoshida's Father * ''Kai'' (1985) - Daizo Moriyama * '' Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis'' (1988) - Arata Mekata * ''

Tales of a Golden Geisha , also known as ''A-Ge-Man'', is a 1990 Japanese comedy film directed and written by Juzo Itami. It stars Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings good luck to her intimate companions (known as an "ageman", from 上げる ''ageru'' 'to raise up') a ...

'' (1990) - Zenbu Okura * ''

The Setting Sun is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai first published in 1947. The story centers on an aristocratic family in decline and crisis during the early years after World War II. Plot summary Twenty-nine year old Kazuko, her brother Naoji, and their wi ...

'' (''Rakuyô'') (1992) * ''

Tora-san's Matchmaker is a 1993 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Keiko Matsuzaka as his love interest or "Madonna". ''Tora-san's Matchmaker'' is the forty-sixth entry in the popular, long-running ...

'' (1993) - Zenemon Tamiya * ''Tenshu monogatari'' (1995) - Oumi-no-jou Touroku (final film role) Kutsukake Tokijiro 1954 poster

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* Japanese male film actors 1905 births 2004 deaths Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class {{Japan-film-actor-stub