Ken Takakura — Actor (25)
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Manhunt (1976) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
君よ憤怒の河を渉れ
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Ryoko Nakano …
other title: 君よ憤怒の河を渉れ / Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare …
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
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Black Rain (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Black Rain
director: Ridley Scott actor: Michael Douglas / Andy Garcia …
other title: Black Rain - Pioggia sporca / Chuva Negra …
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
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A Distant Cry from Spring (1980) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
遙かなる山の呼び声
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Ken Takakura / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Llanto de Primavera / 遙かなる山の呼び声 …
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.
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A Fugitive from the Past (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
飢餓海峡
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Sachiko Hidari …
other title: Lo stretto della fame / Le détroit de la faim …
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
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The Bullet Train (1975) [Movie] TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban
新幹線大爆破
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: Super Expresso 109 / Panik im Tokio-Express …
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
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Red Peony Gambler (1968) [Movie] Douban TMDB
緋牡丹博徒
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Sumiko Fuji / Ken Takakura …
other title: 緋牡丹博徒 / Lady Yakuza 1 - La pivoine rouge …
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years old, her father was attacked and killed by a stranger in alley. Ryuko then dissolves her yakuza family, and, carrying the wallet left by the killer, she sets out on a journey to avenge her father's death. Five years later, she wanders the nation, known only as! Red Peony Oryu who has a red peony tattooed on her shoulder and has the defiance and courage of a man. She meets Katagiri - a loner gambler, Kumatora - boss of a family in Shikoku, and Otaka - female boss of the Doman Family in Osaka. With their help, she finally catches up with the man who murdered her father.
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Golgo 13 (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ゴルゴ13
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Yasuo Yamada …
other title: ゴルゴ13 / Gorugo 13
Live-action adaptation of the hit manga. Golgo 13, also known by the pseudonym Duke Togo, is a professional assassin. His age and birthplace are unknown and there is no consensus in the worldwide intelligence community as to his true identity. Most of his jobs are completed through the use of a customized, scoped M16 rifle. Golgo 13 is contracted to kill Boss Goa, the head of a worldwide crime syndicate responsible for drugs, weapons, and human trafficking.
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964) [Movie] TMDB
宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie …
other title: 宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗 / Seul contre tous à Ichijoji
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style (1963) [Movie] TMDB
宮本武蔵 二刀流開眼
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie …
other title: 宮本武蔵 二刀流開眼 / A deux sabres
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission of learning; with the introduction of his arch-rival Sasaki Kojiro; and lastly the large cast of characters rendezvouses for a fateful finale.
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Brave Red Flower of the North (1970) [Movie] TMDB
日本女侠伝 真赤な度胸花
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Sumiko Fuji / Ken Takakura …
other title: 日本女侠伝 真赤な度胸花
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death of death of her father, Yuki who has traveled from her home in the southernmost part of Japan must fight corrupt local officials seeking to fill her late father's post. As her life is in danger a mysterious rifleman, played by Takakura Ken watches from the shadows. Can she finish the work her dear departed father started in an untamed land?
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Abashiri Prison (1965) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb
網走番外地
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Takakura / Kôji Nanbara …
other title: 網走番外地 / 网走番外地 …
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this harshest of climates.
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The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) [Movie] TMDB Douban
幸福の黄色いハンカチ
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Ken Takakura / Chieko Baisho …
other title: 幸福の黄色いハンカチ / Les mouchoirs jaunes du bonheur …
The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home.
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ken Takakura …
other title: 宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗 / Le Duel de l'aube …
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965) [Movie] TMDB
昭和残侠伝
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Ken Takakura / Ryō Ikebe …
other title: 昭和残侠伝
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.
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Red Peony Gambler (1968) [Movie] NeoDB
緋牡丹博徒
director: 山下耕作 actor: 富司純子 / 高倉健 …
other title: 红牡丹赌徒 / 緋牡丹博徒 …
明治中期，九州赌徒帮派矢野组组长被人暗杀，其独女龙子（藤纯子 饰）解散帮会，以父亲尸体旁遗落的钱包为线索四处寻找凶手。龙子怀揣小太刀，五年间走遍全国各地的赌场，因出色的赌技而赢得“红牡丹阿龙”的绰号。
在岩国某赌场，龙子拆穿庄家作弊手段，引起纠纷，幸得流浪赌徒片桐（高仓健 饰）出手相助。与片桐分手后，龙子得知曾见过杀手容貌的阿新的下落，遂启程寻找，并在道后与熊虎组组长虎吉（若山富三郎 饰）结为兄妹。经熊虎推荐，龙子和阿新前往拜会大阪千成一家第二代首领加仓井（大木实 饰），却偶然在此得知真相……
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Railroad Man (1999) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
鉄道員
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Ken Takakura / Ryoko Hirosue …
other title: Poppoya / 鉄道員 …
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.
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The Yakuza (1974) [Movie] TMDB
The Yakuza
director: Sydney Pollack actor: Robert Mitchum / Ken Takakura …
other title: Yakuza / Den hemmelige liga
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
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Kaoyaku (1965) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
顔役
director: 石井輝男 actor: 鶴田浩二 / 高倉健 …
other title: 顔役 / Underground Veepees …
Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is ordered to acquire the rights to work to level the reclaimed land and prevent the Doshikai from expanding from Kansai into Tokyo, but the interference of the Koda-gumi, associated with the Kansai Doshikai, intensifies. Nakagami's younger brother Hayami, unhappy that the situation is moving slowly, tries to blackmail the mayor into moving forward, but...
A true Toei gangster film with an all-star cast including Koji Tsuruta and Ken Takakura!
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Jakoman and Tetsu (1964) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
ジャコ萬と鉄
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Ken Takakura / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: Jakoman et Tetsu / ジャコ萬と鉄
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
千里走单骑
director: Zhang Yimou actor: Ken Takakura / Shinobu Terajima …
other title: Mille miglia... lontano / Min lange rejse …
Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought unexpectedly closer to both an understanding of himself and of his son.