Ken Takakura
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 at the Toei Film Company, and decided to look in. Toei found a natural in Takakura as he debuted with Denko Karate Uchi (Lightning Karate Blow) in 1956. Japan experienced a boom in gangster films in the 1960s as the Japanese people struggled with the generational differences between those raised in pre-war and post-war Japan and these were Takakura's stock and trade. His breakout role would be in the 1965 film Abashiri Prison, and its sequel Abashiri Bangaichi: Bokyohen (Abashiri Prison: Longing for Home, also 1965), in which he played an ex-con antihero. By the time Takakura would leave Toei in 1976, he had appeared in over 180 films. Takakura gained international recognition after starring in the 1970 war film Too Late the Hero as the cunning Imperial Japanese Major Yamaguchi, the 1975 Sydney Pollack sleeper hit The Yakuza with Robert Mitchum and is probably best known in the West for his role in Ridley Scott's Black Rain (1989) where he surprises American cops played by Michael Douglas and Andy García with the line, "I do speak fucking English". He again proved himself bankable to Western audiences with the 1992 Fred Schepisi comedy Mr. Baseball starring Tom Selleck. While he has slowed down a bit in his older years, he is still active. His most recent film was the 2005 Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles by Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Takakura, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Stage Name: Ken Takakura
Peran: Acting
Reputasi: 1.8094
Jenis Kelamin: Laki-laki
Tanggal Lahir: 1931-02-16
Lokasi Lahir: Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan
Riwayat Perfilman
1972
The Pledge
1971
The Man
1971
Dagger
1971
Bloodiest Flower
1970
Yukyo-retsuden
1970
The Japan Derby Race
1970
House of Gamblers
1968
Gambler Biography
1968
The Day the Sun Rose
1968
Prison Boss
1966
Showdown of Men
1965
The Boss
1964
Storm Party
1964
The Domain
1963
Blackmail
1963
The Big Boss
1963
Life of Hishakaku
1962
Operation Diamond
1962
Hell's Kitchen
1962
365 Nights
1962
All Rascals
1962
The Escape
1961
A Fishwife's Tale
1961
Hell's Juggler
1960
If You're Man Enough
1960
Delinquent Angel
1960
The Great Road
1960
続べらんめぇ芸者
1959
The Counterfeiters
1959
Hell's Companion
1959
A Dead Drifter
1959
A Man's Dark Finger
1959
The Happy Family
1958
Detective Duel
1958
Romance Freestyle
1958
Man of Thirteen Eyes
1958
No Advice Taken
1957
Showdown in Blood
1957
The Deep Blue Sea
1956
Mother Peacock
1956
The Chop Professor
1956