Shima Kōji
Birthday
1901/02/16
Day of death
1986/09/10 (85 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Also know as
Kôji Shima, Shi Ma San, Shih Ma-shan, Кодзи Сима
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...Read more
Acting
(1926) A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring
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(1926) Mito Kōmon
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(1930) Mistress of a Foreigner
as Tsurumatsu
(1932) Daughter and Springtime
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(1929) Sweat
as Heizaemon Kitayama
(1926) The Woman Who Touched The Legs
as Detective
(1929) Tokyo March
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(1937) Sōbō
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(1936) Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
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(1932) Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
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