Ken Takakura — Actor (128)
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
昭和残侠伝 死んで貰います
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Ken Takakura / Ryō Ikebe …
other title: Il tatuaggio del drago: L'inferno è il destino dell'uomo / 昭和残侠伝 死んで貰います
Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 1927, the world has changed. His sister died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and his father is also gone. His brother Jukichi invites him to stay at his in-laws and works in their family pub. He lies low, helping his blind mother-in-law and slowly developing a relationship with Ikuye, the hostess who helped him before his arrest. But trouble lurks when the resident gang decides to show its strength.
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
昭和残侠伝 唐獅子仁義
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Ken Takakura / Sumiko Fuji …
other title: Il tatuaggio del drago: Il dovere di un leone / 昭和残侠伝 唐獅子仁義
Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf (1966) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
昭和残侠伝　一匹狼
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Ken Takakura / Sumiko Fuji …
other title: 昭和残侠伝　一匹狼 / Showa zankyo-den: Ippiki okami
The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Ken Takakura plays Takei Shigejiro of the Shimazu family. When the boss of the Shimazu is killed, Shigejiro takes revenge and is sent to jail. Upon his release, he meets the dying widow of one of hid followers and takes her to her father, Boss Shiomasa, who take him into his family. But when Shiomasa is killed by an old enemy, Shigejiro is obligated to take revenge...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2 (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
昭和残侠伝　唐獅子牡丹
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Ken Takakura / Yoshiko Mita …
other title: 昭和残侠伝　唐獅子牡丹 / Contemporary Tales Of Chivalry 2 …
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Koji Tsuruta / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.
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The Homeless (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
無宿 やどなし
director: Kōichi Saitō actor: Ken Takakura / Shintarō Katsu …
other title: 無宿 やどなし
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help her escape and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast.
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Japan's Top Gangster (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
山口組三代目
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Ken Takakura / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: 山口組三代目
A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang.
This epic film is the first part of greatest true-life series based on autobiography of the Yamaguchi-gumi's third leader, Taoka Kazuo.