TOEI’s Japanese Yakuza series determined Ken Takakura’s popularity. The outlaw group starts to dominate the turf of Fukagawa Kiba. The Kibamasas which has been keeping their own rules protects for ...
Director: Masahiro Makino
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Abashiri Prison series, along with TOEI's Japanese Yakuza series, are blockbuster Ken Takakura starring films. 10 films were released in series over two and a half years. Combined with New Abashiri...
Director: Teruo Ishii
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Brutal Tale of Chivalry Part 2
Starring Ken Takakura, this is one of his representative series along with Japanese Yakuza and Abashiri Prison. Ken Takakura with “Karajishi-Botan” tatoo comes back to the second episode of Brutal ...
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
©KADOKAWA 1976
This movie was the first foreign movie released in China after the Cultural Revolution, and it became hugely popular in China. Leading actors Ken Takakura and Ryoko Nakano became so popular that ev...
Director: Junya Sato
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
©1977/2010Shochiku Co.,Ltd
A masterpiece of Pete Hamill is made into a movie starring veteran actors Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Kiyoshi Atsumi, up-and-coming actors Tetsuya Takeda and Kaori Momoi. The film has won a variet...
Director: Yoji Yamada
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
©KADOKAWA 1978
Kadokawa Shoten made the film of a novel by Seiichi Morimura written for film adaptation as requested by Haruki Kadokawa. Killing skills have been drilled into a man by the authorities. But he pins...
Director: Junya Sato
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
©1980 Shochiku Co., Ltd.
The film is inspired by the main song for Shane (1953), "A Distant Cry from Spring". The story is about a man on a charge of murder, and a mother and her son, who are to hide him from the po...
Director: Yoji Yamada
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Various relationships are portrayed in this masterpiece, set in Mashike town, Ohuyu Misaki cape and Sappporo city in Hokkaido. Singer Aki Yashiro's signature piece “Funauta” is used to great effect...
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Facing an abolishment of the local line in Hokkaido, a hardcore man, who has been proudly living as a high spirited hardcore stationmaster of the dead-end station, is now facing his retirement and ...
Director: Yasuo Furuhata
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
A man travels alone to China for his son, whom he hasn't heard from for a long while. The film shows the importance of relationship with other people through the man’s experience of emotional inter...
Director: Zhang Yimou, Yasuo Furuhata
Ken Takakura and His Era: Commemorative Screening
