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.

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Ταινία 1989

Operation Diamond

Ταινία 1962

The Yellow Handkerchief

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Ταινία 1977

47 Ronin

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Ταινία 1994

Tokyo Gang Vs. Hong Kong Gang

Ταινία 1964

South Pacific Waves Are High

Ταινία 1962

A Dead Drifter

Ταινία 1959

Never Give Up

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Ταινία 1978

Rogue

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Ταινία 1968

The Yakuza

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Ταινία 1974

Men Fighting Whales

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Ταινία 1957

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

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Ταινία 1966

Antarctica

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Bad Angel

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Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues

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Ταινία 1961

Mr. Baseball

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Ταινία 1992

Tenka no Kaidanji Senpū Tarō

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Ταινία 1961

Railroad Man

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Ταινία 1999

Kyōkatsu

Ταινία 1963

Red Peony Gambler

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Ταινία 1968

Manhunt

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Ταινία 1976

Main Street in the Underworld

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An Outlaw

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A Distant Cry from Spring

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Ταινία 1980

Golgo 13

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Ταινία 1973

Hell's Companion

Ταινία 1959

Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game

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Ταινία 1969

The Outsiders

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Ταινία 1958

Tokyo's Business District

Ταινία 1962

Brave Red Flower of the North

Ταινία 1970

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

Sasaki Kojiro

Ταινία 1965

Mount Hakkoda

Captain Tokushima

Ταινία 1977

Buddies

Kadokura

Ταινία 1989

A Fugitive from the Past

Ajimura

Ταινία 1965

Dearest

Eiji Shimakura

Ταινία 2012

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2

Ταινία 1966

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf

Ταινία 1966

Demon

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Ταινία 1985

Manchurian Sunset

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Ταινία 1956

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4

Ταινία 1967

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo

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Ταινία 1969

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

Ταινία 1970

Brutal Tales of Chivalry

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Ταινία 1965

Showdown in Blood

Ταινία 1957

If You're Man Enough

Ταινία 1960

Abashiri Prison

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Ταινία 1965

Wolves, Pigs & Men

Jiro Kuroki, the second brother

Ταινία 1964

All Rascals

Ταινία 1962

The Man

Ταινία 1971

Karate Cop

Detective Mikami

Ταινία 1982

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape

Yoshio Harada

Ταινία 1963

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

Kuramoto

Ταινία 1972

Uragirimono wa jigoku daze

Ταινία 1962

Winter's Flower

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Ταινία 1978

The Firefly

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Ταινία 2001

G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization

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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

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Ταινία 1991

The Domain

Ταινία 1964

The Homeless

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Ταινία 1974

A Portrait of the Author

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Ταινία 1984

Too Late the Hero

Major Yamaguchi

Ταινία 1970

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love

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Ταινία 1971

Lightning Karate Blow

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Prison Boss

Ταινία 1968

Choji Snack Bar

Eiji

Ταινία 1983

The Day the Sun Rose

Ταινία 1968

The Path of the King

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Ταινία 1971

The Deep Blue Sea

Ταινία 1957

Classmates

First Lieutenant Kenmochi

Ταινία 1967

The Last Kamikaze

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Ταινία 1970

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2

Ταινία 1960

The Revolt

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Ταινία 1980

With Songs in My Heart

Ταινία 1958

The Sand City in Manchuria

Hari

Ταινία 1960

Prison Walls of Abashiri 4

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Ταινία 1965

New Prison Walls of Abashiri

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Ταινία 1968

Flower, Storm and Gangster

'Smiley' Ken

Ταινία 1961

Romance Freestyle

Ταινία 1958

Four Hours of Terror

Captain Yamamoto

Ταινία 1959

Devil's Nursery Rhyme

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Jet Air Base 101

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Ταινία 1957

Detective Duel

Ταινία 1958

Sister with Sister

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Ταινία 1958

A Fishwife's Tale

Ταινία 1961

Glorious Fights

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Ταινία 1966

Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

Ταινία 1968

The International Gang of Kobe

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Ταινία 1975

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka

Ταινία 1962

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365 Nights

Ταινία 1962

Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san

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Ταινία 1961

Tales of President Mito

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Ταινία 1962

Man of the World 2

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No Advice Taken

Ταινία 1958

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

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The Bullet and the Horse

Ταινία 1966

Patience Has An End

Isamu Tekada

Ταινία 1971

House of Gamblers

Ταινία 1970

The Pledge

Ταινία 1972

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

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Ταινία 1961

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3

Ταινία 1960

Black Rain: Making The Film

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Eleven Gangsters

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Ταινία 1963

The Second Bullet is Marked

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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die

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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6

Ταινία 1969

The Chivalrous Life

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Ταινία 1967

New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2

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Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

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Ταινία 1965

Jakoman and Tetsu

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Ταινία 1964

Samurai Geisha

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Ταινία 1969

Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style

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Ταινία 1963

Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

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Ταινία 1964

A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm

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The Domain: Flower and Dragon

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Life of Hishakaku

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Song of Kagoshima

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The Drifting Avenger

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Yakuza of the Present

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Ταινία 1973

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

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Ταινία 1969

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2

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Ταινία 1965

Third Generation Boss

Ταινία 1974

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

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Gambler's Legacy

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Ταινία 1969

Bloodiest Flower

Ταινία 1971

Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony

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Ταινία 1969

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Mother Peacock

Ταινία 1956

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Ταινία 1969

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Ταινία 1959

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

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Gang Loyalty and Vengeance

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Ταινία 1963

Great Jailbreak

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Ταινία 1975

The Japan Derby Race

Ταινία 1970

The Big Boss

Ταινία 1963

Lullaby for a Tough Guy

Ταινία 1972

Men in a Rough Town

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Ταινία 1959

Storm Party

Ταινία 1964

Employee Full of Fight

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Ταινία 1957

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

Ταινία 1969

Japan's Top Gangster

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Ταινία 1973

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

Ταινία 1967

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country

Ταινία 1966

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South

Ταινία 1966

The Boss

Ταινία 1965

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow

Ταινία 1970

Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil

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Ταινία 1967

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri

Ταινία 1970

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

Ταινία 1972

Lady Sen and Hideyori

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Ταινία 1962

The Domain: The Naniwa Story

Ταινία 1965

The Domain: Rising Dragon

Ταινία 1970

Showdown of Men

Ταινία 1966

The Domain: White Blade

Ταινία 1967

The Domain: Severed Relations

Ταινία 1968

Dagger

Ταινία 1971

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

Ταινία 1966

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

Ταινία 1967

The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate

Ταινία 1966

Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack

Ταινία 1975

See You

Ταινία 1988

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

Ταινία 1970

The Great Road

Ταινία 1960

Hell's Juggler

Ταινία 1961

Duel of the Underworld

Ταινία 1963

Hell's Kitchen

Ταινία 1962

Histories of the Chivalrous

Ταινία 1968

The Chop Professor

Ταινία 1956

Yukyo-retsuden

Ταινία 1970

Gambler Biography

Ταινία 1968

The detective whose path was crossed by a snake

Ταινία 1995

Meteor Karate Strike

Ταινία 1956

A Man's Dark Finger

Ταινία 1959

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Older brother

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Tv 1977

SMAP×SMAP

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Tv 1996

An Elegy of Tyrole

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Tv 1992

Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi

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