Ken Takakura Movies

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Koharu, a flamboyant geisha, unexpectedly wins a trip to Sado Island in a TV contest. She is accompanied by three people. Koharu had been dreaming of...

1958 Toei movie.

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty...

1958 Toei movie.

1958 Toei movie

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

1962 Japanese movie

Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for...

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

This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and written and directed by Teruo Ishii of "Operation Big...

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a...

Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making...

A Dead Drifter / Hyoryû shitaî

Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small...