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 Takakuras 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 Scotts 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.

Alle Filme erhältlich bei Ken Takakura

Poster movie The Bullet Train

The Bullet Train

Film
Poster movie Station

Station

Film

Filme nicht verfügbar ab Ken Takakura

The Longest Tunnel

Go Akutsu

Film 1982

Black Rain

Masahiro

Film 1989

Operation Diamond

Film 1962

The Yellow Handkerchief

Yusaku Shima

Film 1977

47 Ronin

Kuranosuke Oishi

Film 1994

Tokyo Gang Vs. Hong Kong Gang

Film 1964

South Pacific Waves Are High

Film 1962

A Dead Drifter

Film 1959

Never Give Up

Takeshi Ajisawa

Film 1978

Rogue

Isamu Oba

Film 1968

The Yakuza

Tanaka Ken

Film 1974

Men Fighting Whales

Yosuke Yamagami

Film 1957

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Gou-ichi Takata

Film 2005

Tokyo Untouchable

Yoshio Harada

Film 1962

The Kamikaze Guy

Film 1966

Antarctica

Ushioda

Film 1983

Bad Angel

Film 1960

Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues

Tarô Mannen

Film 1961

Mr. Baseball

Uchiyama

Film 1992

Tenka no Kaidanji Senpū Tarō

Tarō Senpū

Film 1961

Railroad Man

Otomatsu Sato

Film 1999

Kyōkatsu

Film 1963

Red Peony Gambler

Naoki Katagiri

Film 1968

Manhunt

Morioka

Film 1976

Main Street in the Underworld

Film 1964

An Outlaw

Minami

Film 1964

A Distant Cry from Spring

Kosaku Tajima

Film 1980

Golgo 13

Duke Togo / Golgo 13

Film 1973

Hell's Companion

Film 1959

Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game

Shogo Hanaoka

Film 1969

The Outsiders

Ichitaro Kazamori

Film 1958

Tokyo's Business District

Film 1962

Brave Red Flower of the North

Film 1970

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

Sasaki Kojiro

Film 1965

Mount Hakkoda

Captain Tokushima

Film 1977

Buddies

Kadokura

Film 1989

A Fugitive from the Past

Ajimura

Film 1965

Dearest

Eiji Shimakura

Film 2012

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2

Film 1966

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf

Film 1966

Demon

Shuji

Film 1985

Manchurian Sunset

Shintaro

Film 1956

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4

Film 1967

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo

Hanada Hidejiro

Film 1969

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny

Film 1970

Brutal Tales of Chivalry

Seiji Terajima

Film 1965

Showdown in Blood

Film 1957

If You're Man Enough

Film 1960

Abashiri Prison

Shinichi Tachibana

Film 1965

Wolves, Pigs & Men

Jiro Kuroki, the second brother

Film 1964

All Rascals

Film 1962

The Man

Film 1971

Karate Cop

Detective Mikami

Film 1982

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape

Yoshio Harada

Film 1963

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

Kuramoto

Film 1972

Uragirimono wa jigoku daze

Film 1962

Winter's Flower

Hidetsugu Kano

Film 1978

The Firefly

Yamaoka Shuji

Film 2001

G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization

Film 1956

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

Self (archive footage)

Film 1991

The Domain

Film 1964

The Homeless

Jokichi Anabuki

Film 1974

A Portrait of the Author

Self

Film 1984

Too Late the Hero

Major Yamaguchi

Film 1970

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love

Hidejiro Hanada

Film 1971

Lightning Karate Blow

Film 1956

Prison Boss

Film 1968

Choji Snack Bar

Eiji

Film 1983

The Day the Sun Rose

Film 1968

The Path of the King

Ryutaro Fudo

Film 1971

The Deep Blue Sea

Film 1957

Classmates

First Lieutenant Kenmochi

Film 1967

The Last Kamikaze

Koji Yashiro

Film 1970

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2

Film 1960

The Revolt

Keisuke Miyagi

Film 1980

With Songs in My Heart

Film 1958

The Sand City in Manchuria

Hari

Film 1960

Prison Walls of Abashiri 4

Shin'ichi Tachibana

Film 1965

New Prison Walls of Abashiri

Katsuji Suehiro

Film 1968

Flower, Storm and Gangster

'Smiley' Ken

Film 1961

Romance Freestyle

Film 1958

Four Hours of Terror

Captain Yamamoto

Film 1959

Devil's Nursery Rhyme

Kosuke Kindaichi

Film 1961

Jet Air Base 101

Jiro Nakata

Film 1957

Detective Duel

Film 1958

Sister with Sister

Hiroshi Ishioka

Film 1958

A Fishwife's Tale

Film 1961

Glorious Fights

Ichiro Takita

Film 1966

Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

Film 1968

The International Gang of Kobe

Masato Dan

Film 1975

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka

Film 1962

Ken San

Self

Film 2016

365 Nights

Film 1962

Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san

Kenichi Oka

Film 1961

Tales of President Mito

Sukesaburo Sasa

Film 1962

Man of the World 2

Film 1960

No Advice Taken

Film 1958

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

Film 1960

The Bullet and the Horse

Film 1966

Patience Has An End

Isamu Tekada

Film 1971

House of Gamblers

Film 1970

The Pledge

Film 1972

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

Kenichi Hanamura

Film 1961

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

Film 1960

Black Rain: Making The Film

Self (archive footage)

Film 2006

Eleven Gangsters

Sawagami

Film 1963

The Second Bullet is Marked

Film 1960

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die

Film 1972

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6

Film 1969

The Chivalrous Life

Ryuma Ibuki

Film 1967

New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2

Film 1969

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

Shinichi Tachibana

Film 1965

Jakoman and Tetsu

Tetsu

Film 1964

Samurai Geisha

Shimada Seikichi

Film 1969

Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style

Sasaki Kojiro

Film 1963

Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

Sasaki Kojiro

Film 1964

A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm

Shin-ichi Tachibana

Film 1967

The Domain: Flower and Dragon

Kingoro Tamai

Film 1969

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

Film 1971

Life of Hishakaku

Film 1963

Song of Kagoshima

Shuhei Tategami

Film 1962

The Drifting Avenger

Ken Kato

Film 1968

Yakuza of the Present

Ryoichi Shimaya

Film 1973

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

Film 1958

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

Saburo Aizawa

Film 1969

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2

Shinichi Tachibana

Film 1965

Third Generation Boss

Film 1974

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

Film 1971

Brothers Serving Time

Film 1969

Gambler's Legacy

Tsukuda Ginjiro

Film 1969

Bloodiest Flower

Film 1971

Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony

Koji Yashiro

Film 1969

Man of Thirteen Eyes

Film 1958

Mother Peacock

Film 1956

The Escape

Film 1962

The Biggest Gamble

Shuzo Honjo

Film 1969

The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado

Film 1961

Man of the World

Film 1960

The Happy Family

Film 1959

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

Film 1965

Gang Loyalty and Vengeance

Asano

Film 1963

Great Jailbreak

Ichiro Kozue

Film 1975

The Japan Derby Race

Film 1970

The Big Boss

Film 1963

Lullaby for a Tough Guy

Film 1972

Men in a Rough Town

Fumio Sone

Film 1959

Storm Party

Film 1964

Employee Full of Fight

Tani

Film 1957

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town

Film 1969

Japan's Top Gangster

Kazuo Taoka

Film 1973

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

Film 1967

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country

Film 1966

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South

Film 1966

The Boss

Film 1965

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow

Film 1970

Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil

Shin-ichi Tachibana

Film 1967

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri

Film 1970

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm

Film 1972

Lady Sen and Hideyori

Naomori

Film 1962

The Domain: The Naniwa Story

Film 1965

The Domain: Rising Dragon

Film 1970

Showdown of Men

Film 1966

The Domain: White Blade

Film 1967

The Domain: Severed Relations

Film 1968

Dagger

Film 1971

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

Film 1966

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

Film 1967

The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate

Film 1966

Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack

Film 1975

See You

Film 1988

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

Film 1970

The Great Road

Film 1960

Hell's Juggler

Film 1961

Duel of the Underworld

Film 1963

Hell's Kitchen

Film 1962

Histories of the Chivalrous

Film 1968

The Chop Professor

Film 1956

Yukyo-retsuden

Film 1970

Gambler Biography

Film 1968

The detective whose path was crossed by a snake

Film 1995

Meteor Karate Strike

Film 1956

A Man's Dark Finger

Film 1959

Fernsehserie nicht verfügbar ab Ken Takakura

Older brother

Eiji

Tv 1977

SMAP×SMAP

Bistro Guest

Tv 1996

An Elegy of Tyrole

Tateishi Jiro

Tv 1992

Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi

Tv 1993