Kyusaku Shimada

Born

4/24/1955

Totsuka-ku, Japan

Kyusaku Shimada

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 For120 Movies

Shin Godzilla
2016
★7.2
Shin Ultraman
2022
★7.5
Kokuho
2025
★7.8
The Blood of Wolves
2018
★7.2
One Million Yen Girl
2008
★7.1
Memories of Matsuko
2006
★7.8
Tokyo!
2008
★6.9
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
2021
★7.1
No Way Back
1995
★4.8
Kaiji 2: The Ultimate Gambler
2011
★6.6
Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
2014
★6.5
Cutie Honey
2004
★6.3
Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
2003
★6.2
69
2004
★6.5
Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers
2005
★6.6
Rainbow Kids
1991
★6.7
Murder on D Street
1998
★7.0
Patisserie Coin De Rue
2011
★6.8
Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet
2002
★6.5
Forbidden Siren
2006
★5.2
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
★6.2
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
2008
★6.1
The Chef of South Polar
2009
★7.1
Uneasy Encounters
1994
★8.0
Not Quite Dead Yet
2020
★6.2
Joker Game
2015
★5.9
Sada
1998
★7.0
Teacher and Stray Cat
2015
★6.4
Sad Vacation
2007
★7.0
Gosh!!
2025
★4.0
What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?
2022
★4.6
The Code
2009
★6.2
Dynamite Graffiti
2018
★6.2
Kowloon Generic Romance
2025
★8.5
Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill
2013
★6.0
The Promised Land
2019
★6.0
4.50 from Paddington
2018
★6.4
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015
★7.1
Dumbeast
2009
★7.5
Pandemic
2009
★6.4
Neighbor X
2023
★8.3
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988
★6.2
The Woodsman and the Rain
2012
★6.1
Penance
2013
★7.1
Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
2000
★6.2
Walking With The Dog
2004
★9.0
Blue Hour
2019
★6.9
All the Things We Never Said
2020
★5.4
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
2018
★6.2
The Ice Ruts
2016
★7.0
The Apology King
2013
★6.6
Dark Tales of Japan
2004
★5.8
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015
★6.8
Cape Nostalgia
2014
★6.1
Kamen Rider: THE NEXT
2007
★6.8
Bird Call
2006
★7.0
Tonbi
2022
★8.0
A Madder Red
2021
★7.2
Blossoms Bloom
2014
★9.0
The Princess Blade
2001
★5.6
Labyrinth of Dreams
1997
★7.0
Tokyo: The Last War
1989
★6.3
The Motive
2004
★6.9
Jam Films 2
2004
★5.2
Saiyūki
1993
★9.0
Vengeance for Sale
2002
★6.8
Silver Mask
2006
★3.0
The Secret Battlefield
2026
★2.0
Dragon Head
2003
★5.6
Maestro!
2015
★6.4
Naoko
2008
★5.6
One Summer's Day
1999
★10.0
64: Part 1
2016
★7.3
Half a Confession
2004
★7.7
25
2014
★5.0
First Gentleman
2021
★4.5
Angel Home
2013
★8.5
Happy Ending Story
1991
★8.0
Night Time Picnic
2006
★6.7
Time Trip App
2014
★6.0
Kirato Saw Honorable Death With No Surrender ~ Mizuki Shigeru's War
2008
★10.0
A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth
2006
★6.0
Talk to the Dead
2013
★5.4
Tomie: Revenge
2005
★4.8
In the Pool
2005
★7.7
Heaven's Story
2010
★7.2
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
2007
★6.8
Seicho Matsumoto's Black Gospel
2014
★5.8
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
1999
★9.0
Let's Go to the Hospital
1990
★7.5
Skin #5 Video Mix M.M.M.
1989
★5.0
Welcome to Toei Slaughterhouse
2021
★7.0
The Courier
2017
★6.3
A Watcher in the Attic
1994
★4.8
The Clone Returns Home
2008
★5.9
Abacus and Sword
2010
★6.2
Damejin
2006
★5.0
Pure Japanese
2022
★7.4
Freesia: Bullet Over Tears
2007
★5.6
Si-Sei 2 -The Fallen Spider-
2007
★4.5
Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
2002
★10.0
Love Is Five Seven Five
2005
★7.5
Time Scoop Hunter
2013
★4.7
Route 225
2006
★6.0
Laughing Lucky Cats
2017
★6.5
Amber Light
2019
★NR
We Are Not Alone
1993
★5.3
Switch
2020
★3.0
Orochi - Blood
2008
★6.6
The Road Less Travelled
2013
★5.5
Nejirin bou
2004
★10.0
Wandering Brain
1993
★6.3
Soup Opera
2010
★8.0
The Blue Danube
2021
★7.5
Double Suicide Elegy
2005
★6.3
Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Snake Girl
2005
★5.7
Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Dai Go Ya
2006
★7.0
Silver Angel
2004
★9.0
Nagi's Island
2022
★8.0
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
1992
★6.0