Kōji Shima
Directing
1901-02-16 · 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.
Filmography
The Orchid
1970 · Movie
Love Song Over the Sea
1970 · Movie
Tropicana Interlude
1969 · Movie
Dear Murderer
1969 · Movie
裸尸痕
1969 · Movie
The Pit of Death
1968 · Movie
Ambassador Ramen
1967 · Movie
Shojo jutai
1966 · Movie
That Complicated Guy
1966 · Movie
わが愛を星に祈りて
1966 · Movie
The Man Who Killed Six Women
1965 · Movie
The Story of a Blind Woman
1965 · Movie
Muchana Yakko
1964 · Movie
Asphalt Girl
1964 · Movie
Teinen Taishoku
1963 · Movie
Akiko
1962 · Movie
Otoko to onna no sei no naka
1962 · Movie
情熱の詩人啄木
1962 · Movie
夕やけ小やけの赤とんぼ
1961 · Movie
Wakai nakama
1961 · Movie
The Beloved Image
1960 · Movie
Anchin and Kiyohime
1960 · Movie
The Grave Tells All
1960 · Movie
Various Flowers
1959 · Movie
The Path I Remember
1959 · Movie
The Makioka Sisters
1959 · Movie
Musume no boken
1958 · Movie
Thirst
1958 · Movie
The Cat Knew
1958 · Movie
Shogun's Holiday
1958 · Movie
Chance Meeting
1958 · Movie
Nine Hours of Terror
1957 · Movie
A Woman's Skin
1957 · Movie
Bojô no kawa
1957 · Movie
Cascading White Threads
1956 · Movie
Zangiku monogatari
1956 · Movie
A Rainbow at Every Turn
1956 · Movie
Warning from Space
1956 · Movie
New Women’s Dialogue
1955 · Movie
The Phantom Horse
1955 · Movie
Miss Teacher
1955 · Movie
A Geisha on Horseback
1954 · Movie
Asakusa at Night
1954 · Movie
The Golden Demon
1954 · Movie
Autumn Interlude
1954 · Movie
Made in Japan
1953 · Movie
Asakusa monogatari
1953 · Movie
Koshō musuko
1953 · Movie
Lady Chatterley of Japan
1953 · Movie
Jūdai no seiten
1953 · Movie
Zoku bakurō ichidai
1952 · Movie
風の噂のリル
1952 · Movie
Lil's Return from Shanghai
1952 · Movie
Aru yoru no dekigoto
1952 · Movie
Hibari no komoriuta
1951 · Movie
Mado Kara Tobidase
1950 · Movie
Ginza Cancan Girls
1949 · Movie
Good-Bye!
1949 · Movie
Kyō ware renaisu
1949 · Movie
The Thief of Moonlight Castle
1948 · Movie
Enoken no bikkuri shakkuri jidai
1948 · Movie
Unmei no koyomi
1948 · Movie
The Little Green Box
1947 · Movie
Todoroki Sensei
1947 · Movie
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
1947 · Movie
Kimi ka to omohite
1946 · Movie
Twelve Hours Before Departure
1943 · Movie
All-out Attack on Singapore
1943 · Movie
Yamasandō
1942 · Movie
The Tale of Jiro
1941 · Movie
Kaze no Matasaburô
1940 · Movie
Sōbō
1937 · Movie
Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
1936 · Movie
Daughter and Springtime
1932 · Movie
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
1932 · Movie
Mistress of a Foreigner
1930 · Movie
Sweat
1929 · Movie
Tokyo March
1929 · Movie
The Woman Who Touched The Legs
1926 · Movie
Mito Kōmon
1926 · Movie
A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring
1926 · Movie