Kōji Shima
Directing
Born February 16, 1901 in 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
Tropicana Interlude
Dear Murderer
裸尸痕
The Pit of Death
Ambassador Ramen
Shojo jutai
That Complicated Guy
わが愛を星に祈りて
The Man Who Killed Six Women
The Story of a Blind Woman
Muchana Yakko
Asphalt Girl
Teinen Taishoku
Akiko
Otoko to onna no sei no naka
情熱の詩人啄木
夕やけ小やけの赤とんぼ
Wakai nakama
The Beloved Image
Anchin and Kiyohime
The Grave Tells All
The Path I Remember
The Makioka Sisters
Musume no boken
Thirst
The Cat Knew
Shogun's Holiday
Chance Meeting
Nine Hours of Terror
A Woman's Skin
Bojô no kawa
Cascading White Threads
Zangiku monogatari
A Rainbow at Every Turn
Warning from Space
New Women’s Dialogue
The Phantom Horse
Miss Teacher
A Geisha on Horseback
Asakusa at Night
The Golden Demon
Autumn Interlude
Made in Japan
Koshō musuko
Lady Chatterley of Japan
Jūdai no seiten
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Hibari no komoriuta
Mado Kara Tobidase
Ginza Cancan Girls
Good-Bye!
The Little Green Box
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
All-out Attack on Singapore
The Tale of Jiro
Kaze no Matasaburô
Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown
Sweat
Heizaemon Kitayama
Tokyo March
The Woman Who Touched The Legs
Detective
Mito Kōmon
A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring