Ken Takakura
Ken Takakura
Про персону
Кар'єра Acting
Дата народження 16 лютого 1931 Водолій 94 років
Дата смерті 10 листопада, 2014 84 років
Місце народження Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan
Жанри Драма, Бойовик, Трилер
Всього фільмів 4, 1974-2005
Про персону
Кар'єра
Acting
Дата народження
16 лютого, 1931 84 років (10 листопада, 2014)
Місце народження
Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan
Всього фільмів
4, 1974-2005

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.

Рейтинг фільмографії

Чорний дощ

Black Rain
1989 Бойовик США
Режисер: Рідлі Скотт
В ролях: Майкл Дуґлас, Енді Ґарсія
Час: 2 г 5 хв
IMDb 6.6
0
1989
Трейлер
Час: 2 г 5 хв

Якудза

The Yakuza
1974 Бойовик США
Режисер: Сідні Поллак
В ролях: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura
Час: 1 г 52 хв
IMDb 7.2
0
1974
Трейлер
Час: 1 г 52 хв

Містер Бейсбол

Mr. Baseball
1992 Комедія США
Режисер: Fred Schepisi
В ролях: Том Селлек, Ken Takakura
Час: 1 г 48 хв
IMDb 6.0
0
1992
Трейлер
Час: 1 г 48 хв

Шлях у тисячу миль

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
2005 Драма Китай
Режисер: Zhang Yimou
В ролях: Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima
Час: 1 г 49 хв
IMDb 7.3
0
2005
Трейлер
Час: 1 г 49 хв
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