# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/takashi-shimura
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:59:09.578Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/takashi-shimura"
name: "Takashi Shimura"
slug: "takashi-shimura"
description: "Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films, including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954). He played Professor Kyohei Yamane in Ishirō Honda's original Godzilla (1954) and its first sequel, Godzilla Raids Again (1955)."
tagline: "Japanese actor (1905–1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shimura_Takashi.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1905-03-12"
deathDate: "1982-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.209138012246821
  historical:           23.30647466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump