Kōji Shima
Known for: Directing
Born: February 16, 1901
Died: September 10, 1986
Place of birth: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
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 directed such films as Ginza Kankan Musume and Jūdai no Seiten at Shintoho and Daiei Studios. He won a prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival for Unforgettable Trail. Some of his last films were made in Hong Kong for Shaw Brothers. He directed over 90 films as a director and appeared in over 90 films as an actor. He was once married to the actress Yukiko Todoroki.
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Filmography
82 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
8.0
The Orchid
19709.0
Love Song Over the Sea
1970
NR
Tropicana Interlude
1969
NR
Dear Murderer
1969
NR
裸尸痕
1969
9.0
The Pit of Death
1968
9.0
Ambassador Ramen
1967
9.0
Shojo jutai
1966
NR
That Complicated Guy
1966
NR
わが愛を星に祈りて
1966
NR
The Man Who Killed Six Women
1965
5.0
The Story of a Blind Woman
1965
NR
Muchana Yakko
1964
NR
Asphalt Girl
1964
NR
Teinen Taishoku
1963
NR
Akiko
1962
9.0
Otoko to onna no sei no naka
1962
NR
情熱の詩人啄木
1962
NR
夕やけ小やけの赤とんぼ
1961
NR
Wakai nakama
1961
8.0
The Beloved Image
1960
4.8
Anchin and Kiyohime
1960
NR
The Grave Tells All
1960
NR
Various Flowers
1959
NR
The Path I Remember
1959
8.5
The Makioka Sisters
1959
NR
Musume no boken
1958
7.0
Thirst
1958
NR
The Cat Knew
1958
NR
Shogun's Holiday
1958
10.0
Chance Meeting
1958
NR
Nine Hours of Terror
1957
NR
A Woman's Skin
1957
NR
Bojô no kawa
1957
NR
Cascading White Threads
1956
7.0
Zangiku monogatari
1956
NR
A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956
5.3
Warning from Space
1956
NR
New Women’s Dialogue
1955
6.5
The Phantom Horse
1955
NR
Miss Teacher
1955
7.0
A Geisha on Horseback
1954
NR
Woman of Fire
1954
7.0
Asakusa at Night
1954
9.0
The Golden Demon
1954
NR
Autumn Interlude
1954
NR
Made in Japan
1953
NR
Asakusa monogatari
1953
NR
Koshō musuko
1953
4.0
Lady Chatterley of Japan
1953
7.0
Jūdai no seiten
1953
NR
Zoku bakurō ichidai
1952NR
風の噂のリル
1952
7.5
Lil's Return from Shanghai
1952NR
Aru yoru no dekigoto
1952
6.0
Hibari no komoriuta
1951
NR
Mado Kara Tobidase
1950
10.0
Ginza Cancan Girls
1949
8.0
Good-Bye!
1949
NR
Kyō ware renaisu
1949NR
The Thief of Moonlight Castle
1948
NR
Enoken no bikkuri shakkuri jidai
1948NR
Unmei no koyomi
1948
NR
The Little Green Box
1947NR
Todoroki Sensei
1947
8.0
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
1947NR
Kimi ka to omohite
1946NR
Twelve Hours Before Departure
1943
NR
All-out Attack on Singapore
1943NR
Yamasandō
1942
9.0
The Tale of Jiro
1941
10.0
Kaze no Matasaburô
1940NR
Sōbō
1937
NR
Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
1936
NR
Daughter and Springtime
1932NR
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
19326.3
Mistress of a Foreigner
1930
6.8
Sweat
1929
6.1
Tokyo March
1929
9.0
The Woman Who Touched The Legs
1926
NR
Mito Kōmon
1926
8.0
A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring
1926