Ken Takakura Movies

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

A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will...

1960 Toei war movie.

Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family...

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.

A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a handsome, earnest and poverty stricken man.

The Domain: White Blade

Pilot Mitarai Ken is mistaken for a murder suspect after a dying man leaves his name. Sent to fly to Taipei with journalist Xiang-lan, he discovers a...

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international...

Chiezo Kataoka grew up as a Magician's apprentice in America and no prison can hold him!

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

One of the earliest of sukeban / girl boss type eiga

A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.