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Actors: Ken Takakura, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Terashima, Li Jiamin, Qiu Lin, Jiang Wen
Synopsis: On the heels of such extravagant historical swordplay epics as Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Mainland Chinese director Zhang Yimou returns to the reins to tell this intimate tale of an aging father who attempts to remedy a longstanding rift with his grown son. Summoned to Tokyo by his Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Nenji Kobayashi, Shinobu Otake, Ryoko Hirosue, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Synopsis: Japanese '60s icon Ken Takakura stars in this beautifully photographed film about an aging railroad conductor. Sato Otomatsu (Takakura) devoted his life to making the trains run promptly in the formerly prosperous mining town of Horomai. When his colleague informs him that the unprofitable line is Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Ruriko Asaoka, Koji Ishizaka
Synopsis: In honor of the 100th anniversary of the invention of film, Toho studios produced this remake of Chushingura, a paean of feudal devotion and one of the most retold tales in all of Japanese cinema. Legendary filmmaker Kon Ichikawa reworks this old chestnut by trying find a psychological truth in Read More
Actors: Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Ava Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert, Toshi Shioya
Synopsis: When has-been baseball player Jack Elliot (Tom Selleck) is signed by a Japanese team, he is initially reluctant to take the game seriously. Elliot is very successful, though, as he teaches the team about American chutzpah, and they remind him of the value of respect. He must fight his way out from Read More
Actors: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Shigeru Koyama, Yusaku Matsuda
Synopsis: Under scrutiny by his superiors for allegedly dipping into confiscated drug money, New York vice cop Michael Douglas can expect no sympathy from his ex-wife, who is gouging him for alimony. Douglas gets a chance to redeem himself when he is assigned to escort Japanese mob boss Yusaku Matsuda back Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Ayumi Ishida, Nobuko Otowa, Yuko Tanaka
Synopsis: In an emotional and dramatic -- if not melodramatic accounting of a former Japanese gang member, some of the traits of the yakuza, or Japanese Mafia, are brought forward. Shuji (Ken Takakura) has taken the bold step of leaving his yakuza clan behind to start a new life in a small fishing village. Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Masako Natsume, Takeshi Kusaka
Synopsis: Somewhat reminiscent of The Incredible Journey and Milo and Otis -- though much harsher in its approach -- Antarctica focusses in on a team of sled dogs, owned by a team of snowbound Japanese researchers. A relief team is long overdue, forcing the dogs to fend for themselves. Eight of the dogs Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tomokazu Miura, Naoko Otani
Synopsis: In 1954, Go Akuzu (Ken Takakura) travels to the Tsuruga Straits that separate Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido from the main island of Honshu, to investigate the tragic loss of a passenger ship in the treacherous waters of the straits. His solution to the marine dangers is to first advocate Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Ayumi Ishida, Setsuko Karasuma, Yuko Kotegawa
Synopsis: The infamous "Criminal 22" is at large in Tokyo. This is a vicious, sadistic murderer who takes special delight in "offing" cops. Detective Ken Takakura makes it his mission in life to wipe Criminal 22 from the face of the earth. If The Station plays like an American crime-and-punishment picture Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Mizuho Suzuki, Hajime Hana
Synopsis: Most viewers will recognize the tear-jerking techniques used in this transparent, sometimes understated melodrama, but they may succumb anyway. Director Yoji Yamada is masterful at wringing poignancy and pathos out of this transparent script and he has a good team of actors. Kosaku (Ken Takakura) Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Tetsuya Takeda
Synopsis: When he gets a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend, the disappointed young man in this story quits his job, takes his savings to buy a car, and takes off on a trip to Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. During a side trip to a beach, he meets a girl who joins him on his trip. He also takes Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Ryoko Nakano, Isao Natsuki, Rentaro Mikuni
Synopsis: Ajisawa (Ken Takakura) is a mysterious warrior in a secret Japanese paramilitary group who, while on a training exercise in the woods, stumbles into a group of rural party-makers. In the ensuing conflict he kills everyone except one young teenaged boy. The boy was wounded in the conflict, but Read More
Actors: Shogo Shimada, Ken Takakura, Tetsuro Tanba
Synopsis: Set in 1901, this movie depicts the fate of two military training companies sent on war exercises to Mount Hakkoda in the northernmost part of the main island of Japan. They were preparing for maneuvers in the Russo-Japanese War, on the orders of Maj. General Tomoda, in terrain which they believed Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Yoshio Harada, Kunie Tanaka, Ryoko Nakano
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan
Synopsis: Between making They Way We Were and Three Days of The Condor, Sydney Pollack directed this little-seen thriller from a script by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne. The Yakuza stars Robert Mitchum as Harry Kilmer, a former soldier who returns to Japan to help rescue the daughter of his friend George Read More
Actors: Ken Takakura, Kei Yamamoto, Ken Utsui, Sonny Chiba, Tetsuro Tanba
Synopsis: Motivated by their very real grievances, a group of bombers announce that they have placed speed-triggered bombs aboard a bullet train from Tokyo to Hakata, the "Hikari 109." If the train slows below a certain speed, it will be destroyed along with its many passengers. Proving their assertion by Read More
Actors: Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda, Ian Bannen, Harry Andrews
Synopsis: Filmed on location in the Philippines Robert Aldrich's Too Late the Hero is set in the last months of World War II. Lackadaisical navy lieutenant Cliff Robertson, who happens to speak fluent Japanese, is ordered to go on a suicide mission to wipe out an enemy observation post. Robertson's equally Read More
Actors: Koji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura
Synopsis: One of the better films from veteran director Masahiro Makino's long running Nihon Kyodakuden series. As usual, Ken Takakura plays a yakuza bound by duty and honor in 1930s Osaka. Icons Junko Fuji and Koji Tsuruta play opposite Takakura in this very stylized work. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Read More
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