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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura

Actor

Ken Takakura (高倉 健, Takakura Ken), born Gouichi Oda (February 16, 1931, in Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan), was a Japanese actor best known for his brooding style and the stoic presence he brings to his roles. Takakura gained his streetwise swagger and tough-guy persona watching yakuza turf battles over the lucrative black market and racketeering in postwar Fukuoka. This subject was covered in one of his most famous movies, Showa Zankyo-den (Remnants of Chivalry in the Showa Era), in which he played an honorable old-school yakuza among the violent post-war gurentai. A graduate of Meiji University in Tokyo Takakura happened by an audition in 1955 at the Toei Film Company, and decided to look in. Toei found a natural in Takakura as he debuted with Denko Karate Uchi (Lightning Karate Blow) in 1956. Japan experienced a boom in gangster films in the 1960s as the Japanese people struggled with the generational differences between those raised in pre-war and post-war Japan and these were Takakura's stock and trade. His breakout role would be in the 1965 film Abashiri Prison, and its sequel Abashiri Bangaichi: Bokyohen (Abashiri Prison: Longing for Home, also 1965), in which he played an ex-con antihero. By the time Takakura would leave Toei in 1976, he had appeared in over 180 films. Takakura gained international recognition after starring in the 1970 war film Too Late the Hero as the cunning Imperial Japanese Major Yamaguchi, the 1975 Sydney Pollack sleeper hit The Yakuza with Robert Mitchum and is probably best known in the West for his role in Ridley Scott's Black Rain (1989) where he surprises American cops played by Michael Douglas and Andy García with the line, "I do speak fucking English". He again proved himself bankable to Western audiences with the 1992 Fred Schepisi comedy Mr. Baseball starring Tom Selleck. While he has slowed down a bit in his older years, he is still active. His most recent film was the 2005 Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles by Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Takakura, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: February 16, 1931 in Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan

Died: November 10, 2014 (Age 83)

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Ken Takakura  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
Actor1958
Movie
4.9
Actor1960
Movie
ActorKenichi Hanamura1961
Movie
5.7
Actor1958
Movie
6.5
Actor1957
Movie
5.9
ActorTakeshi Ajisawa1978
Movie
7.4
ActorShimada Seikichi1969
Movie
Actor1960
Movie
Actor1958
Movie
6.2
ActorCaptain Yamamoto1959
Movie
6.6
Actor1966
Movie
6.9
Actor1966
Movie
Actor1958
Movie
7.3
Actor1970
Movie
5.9
Actor1988
Movie
ActorHiroshi Ishioka1958
Movie
6.8
ActorSasaki Kojiro1965
Movie
6.7
ActorShogo Hanaoka1969
Movie
Actor1961
Movie
6.4
ActorMasahiro1989
Movie
6.6
ActorCaptain Tokushima1977
Movie
6.7
Actor1970
Movie
6.9
Actor1966
Movie
6.3
Actor1974
Movie
Actor1970
Movie
7
ActorGo Akutsu1982
Movie
7.1
ActorYusaku Shima1977
Movie
6.3
ActorKuranosuke Oishi1994
Movie
5.9
ActorMasato Dan1975
Movie
7.5
ActorGou-ichi Takata2005
Movie
6.7
ActorTetsuo Okita1975
Movie
7.5
ActorUshioda1983
Movie
7.3
ActorOtomatsu Sato1999
Movie
6.5
ActorMinami1964
Movie
6.6
ActorMorioka1976
Movie
7.4
ActorKosaku Tajima1980
Movie
Actor1960
Movie
5.9
ActorDuke Togo / Golgo 131973
Movie
6.8
ActorEiji Mikami1981
Movie
6.5
ActorKadokura1989
Movie
6.7
ActorEiji Shimakura2012
Movie
7.1
Actor1967
Movie
7.1
ActorHanada Hidejiro1969
Movie
7.7
Actor1970
Movie
6.5
ActorShuji1985
Movie
6.7
ActorSeiji Terajima1965
Movie
6.8
ActorShinichi Tachibana1965
Movie
7.3
ActorJiro Kuroki, the second brother1964
Movie
7.2
Actor1962
Movie
6.5
ActorHidejiro Hanada1971
Movie
6.5
ActorHidetsugu Kano1978
Movie
6.8
Actor1964
Movie
6.7
Actor1968
Movie
6.2
ActorEiji1983
Movie
7.1
ActorKeisuke Miyagi1980
Movie
7.1
ActorShin'ichi Tachibana1965
Movie
6.5
ActorKatsuji Suehiro1968
Movie
6.3
ActorKosuke Kindaichi1961
Movie
6.6
Actor'Smiley' Ken1961
Movie
6.9
ActorIchiro Takita1966
Movie
Actor1960
Movie
6.6
ActorIsamu Tekada1971
Movie
Actor1970
Movie
6.8
Actor1972
Movie
6.3
Actor1969
Movie
7.2
ActorRyuma Ibuki1967
Movie
6.3
Actor1969
Movie
6.7
ActorShinichi Tachibana1965
Movie
7.4
ActorTetsu1964
Movie
7
ActorShin-ichi Tachibana1967
Movie
7.5
ActorKingoro Tamai1969
Movie
5.9
Actor1971
Movie
6.5
ActorKen Kato1968
Movie
6.4
Actor1971
Movie
5.6
ActorRyoichi Shimaya1973
Movie
6.4
ActorShinichi Tachibana1965
Movie
Actor1972
Movie
Actor1964
Movie
5.6
Actor1969
Movie
Actor1970
Movie
7.5
Actor1971
Movie
7.3
ActorTanaka Ken1974
Movie
5.8
ActorUchiyama1992
Movie
5.2
Actor1970
Movie
5.9
ActorYamaoka Shuji2001
Movie
5.6
ActorJokichi Anabuki1974
Movie
6.5
ActorRyutaro Fudo1971
Movie
7.1
ActorFirst Lieutenant Kenmochi1967
Movie
6.5
ActorIchitaro Kazamori1958
Movie
6.8
Actor1971
Movie
6.6
Actor1965
Movie
5.5
ActorAsano1963
Movie
6.3
ActorIchiro Kozue1975
Movie
Actor1963
Movie
ActorFumio Sone1959
Movie
6.8
Actor1973
Movie
6.4
Actor1966
Movie
6.8
Actor1967
Movie
7.2
Actor1965
Movie
6.1
Actor1966
Movie
6.7
ActorShin-ichi Tachibana1967
Movie
Actor1972
Movie
Actor1970
Movie
6.3
Actor1965
Movie
7.1
Actor1967
Movie
7
Actor1966
Movie
7
Actor1966
Movie
7.3
Actor1968
Movie
7.2
Actor1967
Movie
6.4
Actor1966
Movie
6.7
ActorNaoki Katagiri1968
Movie
6.7
ActorKuramoto1972
Movie
Actor1958
Movie
6.2
ActorShuzo Honjo1969
Movie
7.4
ActorNaomori1962
Movie
5.9
Actor1960
Movie
7.5
Actor1968
Movie
7.2
ActorSelf2016
Movie
7
ActorSasaki Kojiro1964
Movie
6.7
ActorMajor Yamaguchi1970
Movie
7.7
Actor1963
Movie
7.5
Actor1969
Movie
6.6
ActorSawagami1963
Movie
7.4
ActorTsukuda Ginjiro1969
Movie
6.9
ActorKoji Yashiro1969
Movie
8
Actor1968
Movie
7.6
ActorSelf (archive footage)1991
Movie
6.6
ActorSasaki Kojiro1963
Movie
7.7
ActorAjimura1965
Movie
Actor1966
Movie
6.5
ActorHari1960
Movie
7.6
ActorKoji Yashiro1970
Movie
6.9
Actor1972
Movie
7.6
ActorSaburo Aizawa1969
Movie
5.5
Actor1962
Movie
Actor1963
Movie
Actor1961
Movie
7.3
Actor1975
Movie
Actor1956
Movie
Actor1970
Movie
6.2
Actor1968
Movie
Actor1962
Movie
ActorKenichi Oka1961
Movie
Actor1962
Movie
7
Actor1964
Movie
Actor1959
Movie
6.9
ActorIsamu Oba1968
Movie
ActorYoshio Harada1962
Movie
Actor1959
Movie
Actor1960
Movie
4.9
Actor1964
Movie
Actor1959
Movie
Actor1962
Movie
Actor1956
Movie
6.3
ActorDetective Mikami1982
Movie
ActorYoshio Harada1963
Movie
Actor1956
Movie
Actor1962
Movie
ActorTarô Senpû1961
Movie
ActorTarô Mannen1961
Movie
Actor1963
Movie
ActorShintaro1956
Movie
Actor1971
TV Show
7.4
ActorEiji
1 Episode
1977
TV Show
6.3
ActorBistro Guest
1 Episode
1996-2016
TV Show
ActorTateishi Jiro
2 Episodes
1992-1992
Movie
Actor1 Episode1993
Movie
Actor1995
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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