Ken Takakura

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-02-16 (83 years old)

Deathday

2014-11-10

Place of Birth

Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan

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. A graduate of Meiji University in Tokyo Takakura happened by an audition in 1955...

Acting

1982

The Longest Tunnel

as Go Akutsu

1989

Black Rain

as Masahiro

1977

1994

47 Ronin

as Kuranosuke Oishi

1978

Never Give Up

as Takeshi Ajisawa

1968

Rogue

as Isamu Oba

1974

The Yakuza

as Tanaka Ken

1957

Men Fighting Whales

as Yosuke Yamagami

1962

Tokyo Untouchable

as Yoshio Harada

1966

The Kamikaze Guy

as Fumio Kuroki

1983

Antarctica

as Ushioda

1975

The Bullet Train

as Tetsuo Okita

1992

Mr. Baseball

as Uchiyama

1999

Railroad Man

as Otomatsu Sato

1968

Red Peony Gambler

as Naoki Katagiri

1976

Manhunt

as Morioka

1964

An Outlaw

as Minami

1980

1973

Golgo 13

as Duke Togo / Golgo 13

1958

The Outsiders

as Ichitaro Kazamori

1977

Mount Hakkoda

as Captain Tokushima

1989

Buddies

as Kadokura

1981

Station

as Eiji Mikami

2012

Dearest

as Eiji Shimakura

1985

Demon

as Shuji

1956

1965

Brutal Tales of Chivalry

as Seiji Terajima

1965

Abashiri Prison

as Shinichi Tachibana

1964

Wolves, Pigs & Men

as Jiro Kuroki, the second brother

1982

Karate Cop

as Detective Mikami

1963

2001

The Firefly

as Yamaoka Shuji

1978

Winter's Flower

as Hidetsugu Kano

1991

Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

as Self (archive footage)

1974

The Homeless

as Jokichi Anabuki

1970

Too Late the Hero

as Major Yamaguchi

1983

1971

The Path of the King

as Ryutaro Fudo

1970

The Last Kamikaze

as Koji Yashiro

1967

Classmates

as First Lieutenant Kenmochi

1980

The Revolt

as Keisuke Miyagi

1965

Prison Walls of Abashiri 4

as Shin'ichi Tachibana

1968

1961

1959

Four Hours of Terror

as Captain Yamamoto

1961

Devil's Nursery Rhyme

as Kosuke Kindaichi

1957

Jet Air Base 101

as Jiro Nakata

1958

Sister with Sister

as Hiroshi Ishioka

1966

Glorious Fights

as Ichiro Takita

2016

Ken San

as Self

1962

Tales of President Mito

as Sukesaburo Sasa

1971

Patience Has An End

as Isamu Tekada

1961

2006

Black Rain: Making The Film

as Self (archive footage)

1963

Eleven Gangsters

as Sawagami

1967

The Chivalrous Life

as Ryuma Ibuki

1965

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

as Shinichi Tachibana

1964

1969

Samurai Geisha

as Shimada Seikichi

1969

1962

Song of Kagoshima

as Shuhei Tategami

1968

1973

Yakuza of the Present

as Ryoichi Shimaya

1965

1969

Gambler's Legacy

as Tsukuda Ginjiro

1969

The Biggest Gamble

as Shuzo Honjo

1975

Great Jailbreak

as Ichiro Kozue

1959

Men in a Rough Town

as Fumio Sone

1973

Japan's Top Gangster

as Kazuo Taoka

1967

1962

1971

1988

To the Sea, See You

as Eiji Honma

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