Akira Takarada — Actor (50)
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Sure Death 6 (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
必殺！ 主水死す
director: Masahisa Sadanaga actor: Makoto Fujita / Kunihiko Mitamura …
other title: 必殺！ 主水死す
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an assassin, who by chance encounters an old friend...
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Dance with Me (2019) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ダンスウィズミー
director: Shinobu Yaguchi actor: Ayaka Miyoshi / Yuu Yashiro …
other title: Dance With Me / Dance with me …
Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and left under the spell. Now she is compelled to sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever. She heads back to the hypnotist for relief, but he is nowhere to be found. So Shizuka sets off on a journey around Japan to find him and break the spell.
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Ironfinger (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
１００発１００中
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Akira Takarada / Mie Hama …
other title: １００発１００中 / Chasseur d'espions …
A silly yet skilled Interpol agent flies to Tokyo and gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
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Latitude Zero (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
緯度0大作戦
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Joseph Cotten / Cesar Romero …
other title: Latitudine Zero / U 4000 - Panik unter dem Ozean …
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
director: Ishirō Honda / Kenneth G. Crane actor: John Carradine / Momoko Kôchi …
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a skiers shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film "Jūjin Yuki Otoko" (1955) with added American-made footage, narration, and music.
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The Three Treasures (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
日本誕生
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Takashi Shimura …
other title: Os 3 Tesouros / 日本誕生 …
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
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Godzilla (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Godzilla
director: Luigi Cozzi / Ishirō Honda … actor: Raymond Burr / Akira Takarada …
Mentre Tokyo è ormai ridotta ad un cumulo di macerie, Steve Martin, giornalista americano del United World News, racconta di come la città è stata attaccata da una mostruosa creatura. Il racconto poi torna al presente e segue le operazioni che conducono alla distruzione di Godzilla, sconfitto grazie all'intervento del professor Serizawa, vecchio amico di Steve.
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The Lovelorn Geisha (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
夜の流れ
director: Mikio Naruse / Yūzō Kawashima actor: Yōko Tsukasa / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: Courant du soir / Corriente nocturna …
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ　南海の大決闘
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Akira Takarada / Kumi Mizuno …
other title: Il ritorno di Godzilla / Frankenstein und die Ungeheuer aus dem Meer …
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
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King Kong Escapes (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
キングコングの逆襲
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Akira Takarada / Mie Hama …
other title: King Kong - Il gigante della foresta / King-Kong, Frankensteins Sohn …
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
director: Terry O. Morse / Ishirō Honda actor: Raymond Burr / Takashi Shimura …
other title: Godzilla / Godzilla - König der Monster …
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
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Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
ゴジラvsモスラ
director: Takao Okawara actor: Tetsuya Bessho / Satomi Kobayashi …
other title: Godzilla contro Mothra / Godzilla - Kampf der Sauriermutanten …
Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.
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Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
モスラ対ゴジラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Akira Takarada / Yuriko Hoshi …
other title: Watang! Nel favoloso impero dei mostri / Godzilla und die Urweltraupen …
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
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Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
怪獣大戦争
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Nick Adams / Akira Takarada …
other title: L'invasione degli astromostri / Befehl aus dem Dunkel …
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for cancer. As Glenn investigates, he develops a romance with Miss Namikawa and uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.
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A Wanderer's Notebook (1962) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
放浪記
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Akira Takarada …
other title: Hourou-ki / Chronique de mon vagabondage …
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.