Kyūsaku Shimada

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Biography

Kyūsaku Shimada is a Japanese actor. He was originally part of the Tokyo Grand Guignol Theater group, formed by artist Norimizu Ameya. He stayed with the group until its dissolution in 1986. One of the productions the group undertook was an adaptation of the occult novel Teito Monogatari (Hiroshi Aramata) where Shimada played the lead role Yasunori Kato. He has appeared in films such as Makoto Shinozaki's 0093: Her Majesty's Masao Kusakari and Takahisa Zeze's Pandemic.

Known For

Shin Godzilla

Katayama : Minister for Foreign Affairs ad interim

Tokyo!

Prison Director (segment "Merde")

Shin Ultraman

Taishi Okuma

Memories of Matsuko

Self

House of Ninjas

Kosaku Kuze

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Lieutenant Suehiro

Cutie Honey

Police Manager

No Way Back

Tetsuro

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2025	Gosh!! MOVIE	Self
2025	Kowloon Generic Romance MOVIE	Shū
2025	Kokuho MOVIE	Umeki
2024	Chastity High TV	垣根
2024	The Yin Yang Master Zero MOVIE	Katsuragi Shigetsune
2024	House of Ninjas TV	Kosaku Kuze
2024	I Am... 23 Year Olds TV	Self
2023	Neighbor X MOVIE	Self
2023	Halation Love TV	Kaga Takashi
2023	TOMA #2 MOVIE	Self
2023	SAKANAQUARIUM ADAPT ONLINE MOVIE	Self
2023	Our Little Love Story TV	Master
2022	Nagi's Island MOVIE	Norio Yamamura
2022	Shin Ultraman MOVIE	Taishi Okuma
2022	Tonbi MOVIE	Publishing Company Security Guard
2022	What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? MOVIE	Wataru Nakagaichi
2022	Pure Japanese MOVIE	Self
2021	London no Yamamoto Isoroku MOVIE	Self
2021	Avalanche TV	Masaharu Kuroda
2021	First Gentleman MOVIE	Self
2021	Welcome to Toei Slaughterhouse MOVIE	Minagawa
2021	Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle MOVIE	Lieutenant Suehiro
2021	A Madder Red MOVIE	Narihara
2021	The Blue Danube MOVIE	Self
2021	With You Who Wanted to be a Star : Another Story MOVIE	Washigami Takao
2021	With You, Who Wanted to be a Star TV	Takao Washigami
2020	THE LAST GOZE MOVIE	Self
2020	All the Things We Never Said MOVIE	Juro Yamada
2020	Switch MOVIE	Oizumi Takataro
2020	Not Quite Dead Yet MOVIE	Tanabe
2020	Kashi bōto jū san-gō MOVIE	Self
2019	The Promised Land MOVIE	Self
2019	Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation TV	齐藤
2019	Blue Hour MOVIE	The Star
2019	Sasurai Onsen Endo Kenichi TV	Self
2018	Suits TV	Koichi Miyashita（宮下紘一）
2018	The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine MOVIE	Hanbee Tanaka
2018	The Blood of Wolves MOVIE	Takeshi Kako
2018	4.50 from Paddington MOVIE	Masaru Oyama
2017	Chase TV	Self
2017	Shinjuku Seven TV	Wan
2017	The Courier MOVIE	Self
2017	Laughing Lucky Cats MOVIE	Gonda
2017	Gifu Need You TV	Domon
2017	CRISIS: Special Security Squad TV	Self
2017	Hokuto: Some Murderer's Conversion TV	Self
2017	Silver and Gold TV	Atsushi Izawa
2016	百日紅の下にて MOVIE	Self
2016	シリーズ・横溝正史短編集 TV	Ichirō Saeki
2016	シリーズ・横溝正史短編集 TV	Kantarō Shinmon
2016	シリーズ・横溝正史短編集 TV	Kyōhei Shiga
2016	The Ice Ruts MOVIE	아키노 유타카
2016	Shin Godzilla MOVIE	Katayama : Minister for Foreign Affairs ad interim
2016	Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama? TV	Tokuyama Daigoro \| Tokuyama Daishiro
2016	64: Part 1 MOVIE	Azusa
2016	99.9 Criminal Lawyer TV	Tohru Nishioka
2016	Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit TV	Self
2016	Sayonara Debussy - Pianist Tantei Misaki Yosuke MOVIE	榊間
2016	Utenai Keikan TV	Self
2015	Candy House TV	Shimasaki Akira
2015	Before The Leaves Fall MOVIE	Self
2015	Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment MOVIE	Ryosuke Kono
2015	Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion MOVIE	Ryosuke Kono
2015	Maestro! MOVIE	Shuzo Shimaoka
2015	Joker Game MOVIE	Colonel Takeno
2015	Teacher and Stray Cat MOVIE	Self
2015	A Fading Summer TV	Sadatoshi Otsuki
2014	25 MOVIE	Self
2014	Kingdom Hearts Re:coded MOVIE	Hades (voice)
2014	Cape Nostalgia MOVIE	Takahashi
2014	Time Trip App MOVIE	Satsumaya
2014	Blossoms Bloom MOVIE	Self
2014	The Next Generation: Patlabor TV	Professor Serisawa
2014	Tenchu: Ninja of Justice TV	Jukichi Shudo
2014	Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel MOVIE	Self
2014	Blood on the Tracks TV	Haruhiko Muraoka
2013	Columbo of Shinano - Dead Person's Echo MOVIE	Arai Takashi
2013	Kaiki Daisakusen: Mystery File TV	Self
2013	The Road Less Travelled MOVIE	Jun Shimazu
2013	The Apology King MOVIE	Ootoya
2013	検事・沢木正夫（寺脇康文版） TV	国松敏夫
2013	Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill MOVIE	Yoji Nakatsugawa
2013	Time Scoop Hunter MOVIE	Self
2013	Farewell for Today MOVIE	Hiroki Murayama
2013	Talk to the Dead MOVIE	Self
2013	Demon Ward TV	Ogami Tatsuo
2013	Munashiidake MOVIE	Self
2013	Double Tone: Two Yumi TV	Isao Tatsuno
2013	Penance MOVIE	Self
2013	Angel Home MOVIE	Senba
2013	The Complex: Prologue TV	Shinichi Yamasaki
2012	Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon TV	Self
2012	GTO TV	Self
2012	RUN60 TV	Morisawa Yusuke
2012	ATARU TV	Yoji Nakatsugawa
2012	Ramo Trip MOVIE	Self
2012	The Woodsman and the Rain MOVIE	Shinoda
2012	Penance TV	Detective Yabe
2012	Solitary Gourmet TV	Self
2011	Rakugo Story MOVIE	Self
2011	Patisserie Coin De Rue MOVIE	Yokoi Ona
2010	Abacus and Sword MOVIE	Self
2010	Heaven's Story MOVIE	Lawyer
2010	Soup Opera MOVIE	Editor Kuraki
2010	Shodo Kyouju MOVIE	Self
2009	The Chef of South Polar MOVIE	Captain
2009	Dumbeast MOVIE	Self
2009	The Code MOVIE	Self
2009	Pandemic MOVIE	Shûji Tachibana
2008	K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces MOVIE	Designer
2008	The Clone Returns Home MOVIE	Kagaeyama
2008	Bloody Monday TV	Shimon Kamishima
2008	Orochi - Blood MOVIE	Shitsuji
2008	Naoko MOVIE	Self
2008	Tokyo! MOVIE	Prison Director (segment "Merde")
2008	One Million Yen Girl MOVIE	Prison Officer
2008	Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War MOVIE	Ishiyama
2008	Oka wo koete MOVIE	Self
2007	Sad Vacation MOVIE	Sone
2007	Kamen Rider: THE NEXT MOVIE	Shindou
2007	Kissho Tennyo MOVIE	Self
2007	The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia MOVIE	Self
2007	Freesia: Bullet Over Tears MOVIE	Iwatsuru
2007	Si-Sei 2 -The Fallen Spider- MOVIE	Self
2006	Silver Mask MOVIE	Governor Akise
2006	殺しのはらわた MOVIE	Self
2006	Night Time Picnic MOVIE	Fujimaki
2006	Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Go Ya MOVIE	Takuro Sato
2006	Tales of Terror: Final Night 2 MOVIE	Takuro Sato
2006	Tales of Terror: Final Night 1 MOVIE	Self
2006	Damejin MOVIE	Policeman
2006	Memories of Matsuko MOVIE	Self
2006	A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth MOVIE	Self
2006	Bird Call MOVIE	Self
2006	Route 225 MOVIE	Self
2006	Forbidden Siren MOVIE	Self
2006	Time Limit Investigator TV	Koremo
2005	Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl MOVIE	Kyoko's Father
2005	Dear Hinagon MOVIE	Self
2005	Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers MOVIE	Self
2005	In the Pool MOVIE	Self
2005	Engine TV	Daisuke's father
2005	Tomie: Revenge MOVIE	Dr. Togashi
2005	Love Is Five Seven Five MOVIE	Miura
2005	Double Suicide Elegy MOVIE	Self
2004	Jam Films 2 MOVIE	Self
2004	Silver Angel MOVIE	Constable Shiroshita
2004	The Motive MOVIE	Self
2004	Nejirin bou MOVIE	Customer at barber shop
2004	Dark Tales of Japan MOVIE	Apartment Manager (segment "Crevices")
2004	69 MOVIE	Aihara
2004	Cutie Honey MOVIE	Police Manager
2004	Walking With The Dog MOVIE	Self
2004	Half a Confession MOVIE	Self
2003	The Battling Angel MOVIE	Kami
2003	Days in the Shade MOVIE	Self
2003	Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle MOVIE	Inugai
2003	Happiness in August MOVIE	Self
2003	Dragon Head MOVIE	Minila
2003	You are my only Madonna TV	Kazuma Oosugi
2003	Most Dangerous Deka Matsuri MOVIE	Self
2002	AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo TV	Self
2002	Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover MOVIE	Self
2002	Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet MOVIE	Inugai
2002	Vengeance for Sale MOVIE	Enemy
2001	The Princess Blade MOVIE	Byakurai
2000	Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons MOVIE	Syuzo
2000	Ultraman Neos TV	Gonpachi Minato
1999	The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe MOVIE	Takeshi Ikenaga
1999	Suna no ue no Koibitotachi TV	Self
1999	One Summer's Day MOVIE	Masahiro Ooi
1998	Murder on D Street MOVIE	Kogoro Akechi
1998	Sada MOVIE	Takiguchi
1997	Labyrinth of Dreams MOVIE	Black Kite Customer
1996	Invisible Man TV	Self
1995	No Way Back MOVIE	Tetsuro
1994	Uneasy Encounters MOVIE	Hatayama
1994	A Watcher in the Attic MOVIE	Kogoro Akechi
1993	Wandering Brain MOVIE	Self
1993	Saiyūki MOVIE	沙悟净
1993	We Are Not Alone MOVIE	Self
1992	Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown MOVIE	Self
1991	Doomed Megalopolis TV	Yasunori Katō (voice)
1991	Happy Ending Story MOVIE	Self
1991	Rainbow Kids MOVIE	Tokyo
1990	Tales of the Bizarre TV	Self
1990	Let's Go to the Hospital MOVIE	Anzai
1989	Tokyo: The Last War MOVIE	Yasunori Kato
1989	Skin #5 Video Mix M.M.M. MOVIE	Takao Shimada
1988	Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis MOVIE	Yasunori Kato
	future past perfect Pt. 3 (U_08-1) MOVIE	Self
	Wash Away MOVIE	Self

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