- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- February 16, 1901
- Place of Birth
- Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
- Died
- September 10, 1986
Kōji Shima
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
movieThe Orchid
1970 · Director
Love Song Over the Sea
movieLove Song Over the Sea
1970 · Director
movieTropicana Interlude
1969 · Director, Screenplay
movieDear Murderer
1969 · Screenplay, Director
movie裸尸痕
1969 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Pit of Death
1968 · Director
movieAmbassador Ramen
1967 · Director
movieShojo jutai
1966 · Director
movieThat Complicated Guy
1966 · Director
movieわが愛を星に祈りて
1966 · Director
movieThe Man Who Killed Six Women
1965 · Director
movieThe Story of a Blind Woman
1965 · Director
movieMuchana Yakko
1964 · Director
movieAsphalt Girl
1964 · Director
movieTeinen Taishoku
1963 · Director
movieAkiko
1962 · Director
movieOtoko to onna no sei no naka
1962 · Director
movie情熱の詩人啄木
1962 · Director
movie夕やけ小やけの赤とんぼ
1961 · Director, Screenplay
movieWakai nakama
1961 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Beloved Image
1960 · Director, Screenplay
movieAnchin and Kiyohime
1960 · Director
movieThe Grave Tells All
1960 · Director
movieThe Path I Remember
1959 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Makioka Sisters
1959 · Director
movieMusume no boken
1958 · Director
movieThirst
1958 · Director
movieThe Cat Knew
1958 · Director
movieShogun's Holiday
1958 · Director
movieChance Meeting
1958 · Director
movieNine Hours of Terror
1957 · Director, Screenplay
movieA Woman's Skin
1957 · Director
movieBojô no kawa
1957 · Director
movieCascading White Threads
1956 · Screenplay, Director
movieZangiku monogatari
1956 · Director
movieA Rainbow at Every Turn
1956 · Director
movieWarning from Space
1956 · Director
movieNew Women’s Dialogue
1955 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Phantom Horse
1955 · Director, Music, Screenplay
movieMiss Teacher
1955 · Screenplay
movieA Geisha on Horseback
1954 · Director, Screenplay
movieAsakusa at Night
1954 · Director, Writer
movieThe Golden Demon
1954 · Director, Writer
movieAutumn Interlude
1954 · Director
movieMade in Japan
1953 · Director
movieKoshō musuko
1953 · Screenplay, Director
movieLady Chatterley of Japan
1953 · Director
movieJūdai no seiten
1953 · Director
風の噂のリル
movie風の噂のリル
1952 · Director
movieLil's Return from Shanghai
1952 · Adaptation, Director
movieHibari no komoriuta
1951 · Director
movieMado Kara Tobidase
1950 · Screenplay, Director
movieGinza Cancan Girls
1949 · Director
movieGood-Bye!
1949 · Director
movieThe Little Green Box
1947 · Director, Original Story, Adaptation
Todoroki Sensei
movieTodoroki Sensei
1947 · Director
movieA Thousand and One Nights with Toho
1947 · Writer
Kimi ka to omohite
movieKimi ka to omohite
1946 · Director
Twelve Hours Before Departure
movieTwelve Hours Before Departure
1943 · Director
movieAll-out Attack on Singapore
1943 · Director
Yamasandō
movieYamasandō
1942 · Director
movieThe Tale of Jiro
1941 · Director
movieKaze no Matasaburô
1940 · Director
Sōbō
movieSōbō
1937
moviePassionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
1936
Daughter and Springtime
movieDaughter and Springtime
1932
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
movieHatobue wo Fuku Onna
1932
Mistress of a Foreigner
movieMistress of a Foreigner
1930 · Tsurumatsu
movieSweat
1929 · Heizaemon Kitayama
movieTokyo March
1929
movieThe Woman Who Touched The Legs
1926 · Detective
movieMito Kōmon
1926
movieA Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring
1926