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Actor Born: March 12, 1905 in Hyogo, Japan Death: February 11, 1982 in Japan 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 "Sanshiro Sugata" (1943), going on to appear in virtually all of the director's films until 1965. Shimura was seen as the firewood peddler in "Rashomon" (1950), the dying civil-servant protagonist in "Ikiru" (1952), samurai leader Kambei in "Seven Samurai" (1954), the old general in "The Hidden Fortress" (1957), and in equally weighty roles in "Throne of Blood" (1957), "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960), "Yojimbo" (1961) and "Red Beard" (1965). Curiously, Shimura was never under contract to Kurosawa; instead, the actor was a "hired hand" at Japan's Toho Studios, accepting... Full Biography
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