Kōji Shima

DirectorWriterSoundActor Feb 16 (died age 85) Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan 1926–1970 (44 year career)

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Biography

Born as Takehiko Kagoshima in Nagasaki, Shima left for Tokyo after graduating from high school. He was in the first class of the Nihon Eiga Haiyū Gakkō and joined the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1925. Playing mostly romantic leads, he appeared in films directed by such masters as Tomu Uchida and Kenji Mizoguchi. He turned to directing in 1939, and quickly came to prominence with films such as Kaze no Matasaburō, an adaption of a Kenji Miyazawa story, and Jirō Monogatari. After the war, he dir…

Known For

Film

Warning from Space

Director

Film

Tokyo March

6.1 1929

Film

Lil's Return from Shanghai

Adaptation

Film

Sweat

Heizaemon Kitayama

Film

Anchin and Kiyohime

Director

Film

The Phantom Horse

Director

Film

Kaze no Matasaburô

Director

Film

Ambassador Ramen

Director

Filmography

Acting (10)

Movies (10)

Sōbō

1937

Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown

1936

Hatobue wo Fuku Onna

1932

Daughter and Springtime

1932

Mistress of a Foreigner

1930

as Tsurumatsu

6.2

Sweat

1929

as Heizaemon Kitayama

Tokyo March

Mito Kōmon

A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring

1926

The Woman Who Touched The Legs

1926

as Detective

Crew (76)

Movies (76)

Love Song Over the Sea

1970

Director

The Orchid

1970

Director

Tropicana Interlude

1969

Director

裸尸痕

1969

Director

裸尸痕

1969

Screenplay

Dear Murderer

1969

Director

Dear Murderer

1969

Screenplay

The Pit of Death

1968

Director

Ambassador Ramen

1967

Director

9.0

Shojo jutai

1966

Director

わが愛を星に祈りて

1966

Director

That Complicated Guy

1966

Director

The Story of a Blind Woman

1965

Director

5.0

The Man Who Killed Six Women

1965

Director

Asphalt Girl

1964

Director

Muchana Yakko

1964

Director

Teinen Taishoku

1963

Director

情熱の詩人啄木

1962

Director

Otoko to onna no sei no naka

1962

Director

Akiko

1962

Director

Wakai nakama

1961

Director

夕やけ小やけの赤とんぼ

1961

Director

Anchin and Kiyohime

1960

Director

4.8

The Grave Tells All

1960

Director

The Beloved Image

1960

Director

The Beloved Image

1960

Screenplay

The Makioka Sisters

1959

Director

8.0

The Path I Remember

1959

Director

Various Flowers

1959

Director

Various Flowers

1959

Screenplay

Shogun's Holiday

1958

Director

Musume no boken

1958

Director

Thirst

1958

Director

7.0

Chance Meeting

1958

Director

The Cat Knew

1958

Director

Nine Hours of Terror

1957

Director

Bojô no kawa

1957

Director

A Woman's Skin

1957

Director

Cascading White Threads

1956

Screenplay

A Rainbow at Every Turn

1956

Director

Warning from Space

Director

Zangiku monogatari

Director

New Women’s Dialogue

Director

New Women’s Dialogue

1955

Screenplay

The Phantom Horse

Director

The Phantom Horse

Music

The Phantom Horse

Screenplay

Miss Teacher

Screenplay

A Geisha on Horseback

1954

Director

Asakusa at Night

1954

Director

The Golden Demon

Director

The Golden Demon

Writer

Autumn Interlude

Director

Lady Chatterley of Japan

1953

Director

Made in Japan

1953

Director

Jūdai no seiten

1953

Director

7.0

Koshō musuko

1953

Director

Koshō musuko

1953

Screenplay

風の噂のリル

1952

Director

Lil's Return from Shanghai

1952

Adaptation

7.5

Lil's Return from Shanghai

Director

Hibari no komoriuta

Director

Mado Kara Tobidase

Director

Mado Kara Tobidase

1950

Screenplay

Good-Bye!

1949

Director

8.0

Ginza Cancan Girls

1949

Director

Unmei no koyomi

1948

Director

Enoken no bikkuri shakkuri jidai

1948

Director

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho

1947

Writer

Todoroki Sensei

1947

Director

Kimi ka to omohite

1946

Director

All-out Attack on Singapore

1943

Director

Twelve Hours Before Departure

1943

Director

Yamasandō

1942

Director

The Tale of Jiro

Director

Kaze no Matasaburô

Director