Ken Takakura — Actor (128)
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
緋牡丹博徒 二代目襲名
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Sumiko Fuji / Hiroyuki Nagato …
other title: Lady Yakuza 4 - L'Héritière / Lady Yakuza Red Peony Gambler 4: Second Generation Ceremony …
The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livelihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes.
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Never Give Up (1978) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
野性の証明
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Ryoko Nakano …
other title: Survie en pleine nature / 野性の証明
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for which he is responsible. Years later, Ajisawa is forced to return to the scene of the tragedy for his new job as a claims adjuster where he is subsequently arrested for his suspected involvement. But the threat of jail time is the least of his worries as his former organization comes gunning for him.
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Tales of President Mito (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
黄門社長漫遊記
director: Eiichi Koishi actor: Ken Takakura / Yoshiko Mita …
other title: 黄門社長漫遊記
Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with a large Chinese company.
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The Domain (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
日本侠客伝
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Ken Takakura / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: La légende des yakuzas / 日本侠客伝
The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.
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An Outlaw (1964) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
ならず者
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Takakura / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: Un hors-la-loi / ならず者
Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.
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The Drifting Avenger (1968) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
荒野の渡世人
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Ken Goodlet …
other title: 荒野の渡世人
Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making him aim to get revenge. Marvin an experienced gunman befriends Ken and becomes his mentor.
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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.
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Jakoman and Tetsu (1964) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
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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Kaoyaku (1965) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
顔役
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Koji Tsuruta / Ken Takakura …
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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The Yakuza (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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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Railroad Man (1999) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
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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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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Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
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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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
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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The Yellow Handkerchief (1977) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
幸福の黄色いハンカチ
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Ken Takakura / Chieko Baisho …
other title: Les mouchoirs jaunes du bonheur / El pañuelo amarillo de la felicidad …
A convict, newly released from prison for murder, joins two strangers on a road trip through Hokkaido to visit his ex-wife, whom he hasn't seen in four years, knowing that if she puts a yellow handkerchief on the window, it would mean that she wants him back at home.
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Abashiri Prison (1965) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
網走番外地
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Takakura / Kōji Nanbara …
other title: 網走番外地 / Prisión Abashiri
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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Brave Red Flower of the North (1970) [Movie] IMDb 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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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style (1963) [Movie] IMDb 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.