Direction: Koji Shima

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Koji Shima. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Warning from Space

1956 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Keizo Kawasaki · Toyomi Karita · Bin Yagasawa · Shozo Nanbu

Synopsis UFO's are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular female singer. It/she warns mankind that a meteor...

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Jirô monogatari

1941 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Haruko Sugimura · Chieko Murata · Shirô Izome

Synopsis Jirô is delivered as a newborn to a servant of his aristocratic family to raise him on his farm. After a few years, the family decides that the child returns to the family home, so Jirô must separate from his...

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Maboroshi no uma

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Yukihiko Iwatare · Akihiko Yusa · Yoshiro Kitahara

Synopsis The mare of the Shiraishi, humble farmers, stop a foal they call Takeru. The little one of the family, Jirô, is crazy about Takeru, despite the fact that the foal brings to light a very restless character.

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Hibari no komoriuta

1951 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Satsuki Arakawa · Hikaru Hoshi · Shinsho Kokontei · Hibari Misora

Synopsis In summer camps, Hibari meets a girl, Sumire, who looks like her like a drop of water to another. They soon discover that they are twins, but that each one lives with each of the parents, who separated after birth...

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Ginza kankan musume

1949 · Movie · 68 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Hideko Takamine · Katsuhiko Haida · Shinsho Kokontei · Shizuko Kasagi

Synopsis "Ginza Cancan Girl" - a mixture of American musical movie and the modesty of Japanese cinema. Hideko Takamine was already a successful singer with this very popular hit song.

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Râmen taishi

1967 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

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A Complicated Man

1966 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mariko Kô · Shûji Sano · Edith Hanson

Synopsis Saeko, the daughter of a wealthy business man, meets Jôji on the plane, a flight attendant, and quickly falls in love with him. When Saeko starts gathering information about Jôji from his acquaintances, he will gradually discover that he is...

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Tropicana Interlude

1969 · Movie · 93 min. · Hong Kong

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Goodbye

1949 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

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Kao

1960 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

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Anchin to Kiyohime

1960 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Yôko Uraji · Akihiko Katayama

Synopsis The beautiful Kyohime, daughter of a noble, accidentally injures the Anchin monk with an arrow. Kyohime, in repair, invites Anchin to his mansion until it heals ... but falls madly in love with him.

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Kaidan otoshiana

1968 · Movie · 78 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Mikio Narita · Eiji Funakoshi · Mayumi Nagisa · Mako Sanjô

Synopsis Haruo Kuramoto works in a company where he wants to climb by marrying the director's daughter. But he has a problem: he maintains a secret relationship with Reiko, secretary in the same company, which he has made pregnant and who...

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Yûrakuchô de aimashô

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Machiko Kyô · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Kenji Sugawara · Hitomi Nozoe

Synopsis Designer Aya Koganaki, whose last collection has been a great success, meets engineer Rentaro Shinohara on the train back to Tokyo, but the man only shows indifference and she feels hurt. Coincidentally, their younger brothers, Takeshi and Kana, also meet...

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Jûdai no seiten

1953 · Movie · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Yôko Minamida · Miki Odagiri · Bontarô Miake

Synopsis Four teenage girls lost an awakening to the world of sex: Kaoru is a Christian who lives in dislike of men after being raped; Eiko has an absolute fixation by Kaoru of lesbian dyes; Fusae goes through economic hardships, which...

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Tôkyô no heroine

1950 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

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Shojo jutai

1966 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Ayako Wakao

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Dear Murderer

1969 · Movie · 109 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Peter Chen Ho · Pat Ting · Betty Ting Pei · Ouyang Sha-fei

Synopsis In this remake of "Kaidan otoshiana" Tu Chang is the climber who wants to marry the daughter of the company's director. Only that he maintains a secret relationship with Lan Fen, secretary in the same company, which he has made...

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Asakusa no yoru

1954 · Movie · Japan

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