Directing

Kōji Shima

Born 1901-02-16

Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Department: Directing

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 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.

1949

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (106 titles)

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