Ken Takakura
Biography
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.…
Filmography
The Longest Tunnel
1982 · 10.0
The Domain: Flower and Dragon
1969 · 10.0
Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
1975 · 10.0
Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
1964 · 10.0
The Domain: Rising Dragon
1970 · 10.0
Eleven Gangsters
1963 · 10.0
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
1972 · 10.0
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
1967 · 10.0
Umi e, See You
1988 · 10.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961 · 10.0
The Domain: Severed Relations
1968 · 10.0
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972 · 10.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
1960 · 9.0
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
1965 · 9.0
Karate Cop
1982 · 9.0
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1970 · 9.0
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
1967 · 9.0
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6
1969 · 9.0
The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
1966 · 9.0
Storm Party
1964 · 9.0
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
1966 · 9.0
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958 · 9.0
Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil
1967 · 9.0
G-men of Japan 4: Special Armed Unit Mobilization
1956 · 9.0
The Bullet and the Horse
1966 · 9.0
Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
1963 · 9.0
Operation Diamond
1962 · 9.0
SMAP×SMAP
1996 · 8.5
The Chivalrous Life
1967 · 8.5
Wolves, Pigs & Men
1964 · 8.1
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
1965 · 8.0
Brothers Serving Time
1969 · 8.0
Life of Hishakaku
1963 · 8.0
The Second Bullet is Marked
1960 · 8.0
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971 · 8.0
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960 · 8.0
Third Generation Boss
1974 · 8.0
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
1967 · 8.0
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1970 · 8.0
Lady Sen and Hideyori
1962 · 8.0
The Domain: White Blade
1967 · 8.0
Histories of the Chivalrous
1968 · 8.0
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf
1966 · 8.0
The Chop Professor
1956 · 8.0
If You're Man Enough
1960 · 8.0
The Great Road
1960 · 8.0
The Day the Sun Rose
1968 · 8.0
Defeat the Boss
1963 · 8.0
The Homeless
1974 · 7.8
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
1969 · 7.7
The Kamikaze Guy
1966 · 7.7
Prison Boss
1968 · 7.7
Demon
1985 · 7.6
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
1969 · 7.5
The Firefly
2001 · 7.5
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
1966 · 7.5
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
1965 · 7.5
Jakoman and Tetsu
1964 · 7.5
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love
1971 · 7.5
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
1967 · 7.5
Hell's Kitchen
1962 · 7.5
Samurai Geisha
1969 · 7.5
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
1965 · 7.5
Yukyo-retsuden
1970 · 7.5
A Distant Cry from Spring
1980 · 7.4
47 Ronin
1994 · 7.4
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
1965 · 7.4
Red Peony Gambler
1968 · 7.4
A Fugitive from the Past
1965 · 7.3
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
1965 · 7.3
Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
1969 · 7.3
Antarctica
1983 · 7.2
Abashiri Prison
1965 · 7.2
Choji Snack Bar
1983 · 7.2
Glorious Fights
1966 · 7.2
The Yakuza
1974 · 7.1
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
2005 · 7.1
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
1964 · 7.0
The Yellow Handkerchief
1977 · 7.0
Railroad Man
1999 · 7.0
Japan's Top Gangster
1973 · 7.0
All Rascals
1962 · 7.0
Uragirimono wa jigoku daze
1962 · 7.0
The Biggest Gamble
1969 · 7.0
Great Jailbreak
1975 · 7.0
The Last Kamikaze
1970 · 7.0
The Revolt
1980 · 7.0
Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style
1963 · 7.0
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
1966 · 7.0
I Am The Magician From Hell
1961 · 7.0
Duel of the Underworld
1963 · 7.0
The Boss
1965 · 7.0
Rogue
1968 · 7.0
The Outsiders
1958 · 7.0
Tokyo Untouchable
1965 · 7.0
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
1966 · 7.0
Yakuza of the Present
1973 · 7.0
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
1972 · 7.0
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny
1970 · 7.0
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
1968 · 7.0
Devil's Nursery Rhyme
1961 · 7.0
The Man
1971 · 7.0
House of Gamblers
1970 · 7.0
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow
1970 · 7.0
Showdown of Men
1966 · 7.0
The Japan Derby Race
1970 · 7.0
Dagger
1971 · 7.0
The Escape
1962 · 7.0
The Bullet Train
1975 · 6.9
Buddies
1989 · 6.9
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1972 · 6.8
Brave Red Flower of the North
1970 · 6.8
Dearest
2012 · 6.7
Gambler's Legacy
1969 · 6.7
Mount Hakkoda
1977 · 6.6
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
1969 · 6.6
Black Rain
1989 · 6.6
Winter's Flower
1978 · 6.5
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
1968 · 6.5
The Domain
1964 · 6.5
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
1969 · 6.5
Classmates
1967 · 6.5
The Sand City in Manchuria
1960 · 6.5
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
1969 · 6.5
The Path of the King
1971 · 6.5
Too Late the Hero
1970 · 6.4
Never Give Up
1978 · 6.4
Flower, Storm and Gangster
1961 · 6.3
Station
1981 · 6.2
Manhunt
1976 · 6.2
Four Hours of Terror
1959 · 6.2
Main Street in the Underworld
1964 · 6.1
The Drifting Avenger
1968 · 6.1
Bloodiest Flower
1971 · 6.0
Detective Duel
1958 · 6.0
Gambler Biography
1968 · 6.0
Patience Has An End
1971 · 5.9
Mr. Baseball
1992 · 5.9
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1971 · 5.8
The Pledge
1972 · 5.8
The International Gang of Kobe
1975 · 5.7
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
1963 · 5.7
Golgo 13
1973 · 5.1
The Deep Blue Sea
1957 · 5.0
An Outlaw
1964 · 5.0
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
1965 · 4.8
Employee Full of Fight
1957 · 4.0
Older brother
1977 · 0.0
An Elegy of Tyrole
1992 · 0.0
Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
1993 · 0.0
South Pacific Waves Are High
1962 · 0.0
Violent Street
1963 · 0.0
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush
1960 · 0.0
Storming Squadron
1960 · 0.0
Mother Peacock
1956 · 0.0
Monsoon Son Pt.2
1958 · 0.0
Monsoon Son
1958 · 0.0
Delinquent Angel
1960 · 0.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
1962 · 0.0
Sister with Sister
1958 · 0.0
Night of the Suspicions
1959 · 0.0
365 Nights
1962 · 0.0
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
1960 · 0.0
The Big Boss
1963 · 0.0
His Pistol is Hell
1958 · 0.0
Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
1961 · 0.0
Song of Kagoshima
1962 · 0.0
Lightning Karate Blow
1956 · 0.0
Tokyo's Business District
1962 · 0.0
Hell's Companion
1959 · 0.0
Man of Thirteen Eyes
1958 · 0.0
The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
1961 · 0.0
Midair Circus
1958 · 0.0
The Happy Family
1959 · 0.0
Jet Air Base 101
1957 · 0.0
The Counterfeiters
1959 · 0.0
Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues
1961 · 0.0
恐怖の空中殺人
1956 · 0.0
Men Fighting Whales
1957 · 0.0
Manchurian Sunset
1956 · 0.0
No Advice Taken
1958 · 0.0
A Dead Drifter
1959 · 0.0
Meteor Karate Strike
1956 · 0.0
With Songs in My Heart
1958 · 0.0
A Man's Dark Finger
1959 · 0.0
Blackmail
1963 · 0.0
Showdown in Blood
1957 · 0.0
The Bastards of Lawless Town
1959 · 0.0
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
1961 · 0.0
続べらんめぇ芸者
1960 · 0.0
The Silent Murder
1959 · 0.0
Tales of President Mito
1962 · 0.0
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity
1960 · 0.0
The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
1995 · 0.0
Romance Freestyle
1958 · 0.0
A Fishwife's Tale
1961 · 0.0
Code of Chivalry
1967 · 0.0