Toyofumi Shamisen
Toyofumi Shamisen is credited as a shamisen player in two Japanese films from the late 1950s and early 1960s. In New Third-Class Executive, released in 1959, Shamisen appears in an uncredited role, contributing to the film’s soundtrack through traditional shamisen performance.
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Toyofumi Shamisen is credited as a shamisen player in two Japanese films from the late 1950s and early 1960s. In New Third-Class Executive, released in 1959, Shamisen appears in an uncredited role, contributing to the film’s soundtrack through traditional shamisen performance. The shamisen, a three-stringed Japanese musical instrument, often features in period dramas and comedies to evoke cultural atmosphere or underscore comedic timing.
Shamisen’s second known credit is in Travel Stories of a Company President Part II from 1963, where the role is explicitly listed as Shamisen Player Toyofumi. This suggests a recurring association with film scoring or musical accompaniment in Japanese cinema during that era. The limited documentation of Shamisen’s work reflects the broader scarcity of rec…
