Ken Takakura Movies

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who...

Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money.

One of the earliest of sukeban / girl boss type eiga

Chiezo Kataoka grew up as a Magician's apprentice in America and no prison can hold him!

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.

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

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

Japanese drama film.

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

1958 Toei movie.

A veteran officer and a young detective investigate a late-night taxi-driver killing; tracing an illegally held pistol leads them through a chain of...

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.