Ken Takakura Movies

Japanese drama film.

From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation....

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...

Convict son revenges innocent father's death.

Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is...

Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love...

The Domain: Severed Relations

Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.

One of the earliest of sukeban / girl boss type eiga

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.

A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the...

Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.