Kôhei Shima

Movies

Tora-san's Home Run
Production Design
The second Tora-San feature.
Women in Prison
Art Direction
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.
The Devil of Edo
Art Direction
Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara
Sagohei the Three-footer
Art Direction
Omokage no machi
Art Direction
A 1942 film.
Musashibo Benkei
Art Direction
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying Minamoto no Yoshitsune (who is, of course, a man). The film climaxes in the famous encounter/fight btw Benkei and Yoshitsune at the Gojo Bridge.
Kuriyama Daizen
Art Direction
Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi