Ken Takakura Movies

The Domain: Severed Relations

Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money.

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house...

Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.

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

KEN SAN pieces together the puzzle of the life and legacy of Japan's mythical acting icon, Ken Takakura. Collaborators, friends and family tell...

Japanese mystery film.

The life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb action.

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the...

One of the earliest of sukeban / girl boss type eiga

After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness,...

Live-action adaptation of the hit manga. Golgo 13, also known by the pseudonym Duke Togo, is a professional assassin. His age and birthplace are...

Convict son revenges innocent father's death.

Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.

1958 Toei movie.

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...