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	Metropolis - Big in Japan: Miura Kazuyoshi
		Takakura has often been called Japan's Clint Eastwood, and their on-screen personae do share a lot in common: Their rugged looks, the air of mystery surrounding them and the violence that follows wherever they go.
		Takakura first came to the attention of Western audiences in 1975, starring alongside Robert Mitchum in Sidney Pollack's highly watchable epic The Yakuza.
		Takakura played a hit man who turns against his employers to avenge his family, and his brooding screen presence helped turn an already fine movie into something of a cult favorite.
	metropolis.co.jp /biginjapanarchive299/288/biginjapaninc.htm (380 words)

	Modern Japan - Famous Japanese - Takakura Ken
		Takakura's continuing appearances in TV commercials are proof of his lasting appeal.
		Takakura's image belies the fact that, unlike fellow '60s yakuza star Tsuruta Koji, he graduated from the prestigious Meiji University and was a virtual teetotaller.
		Takakura Ken first appeared on the Hollywood radar in 1975, starring - very much to type, as a yakuza hitman - with Robert Mitchum in Sidney Pollack's cult classic The Yakuza and he has since held his own on screen with Michael Douglas and Tom Selleck.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/takakura_ken.shtml (606 words)

	Amazon.com: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: DVD: Ken Takakura,Shinobu Terajima,Kiichi Nakai,Jiamin Li,Lin Qiu ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Japanese actor Ken Takakura stars as Gou-ichi Takata, a laconic man who lives in a fishing village and is estranged from his son.
		Takakura's character in fact has so much trouble expressing his emotions that he has to talk through a video camera to an official in order to get his feelings across.
		Takakura's glacially cool performance is truly able to move audience when cracks appear in his hard exterior.
	www.amazon.com /Riding-Alone-Thousands-Miles-Takakura/dp/B000KX0IPE (2090 words)

	Teleport City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Takakura Ken is probably best known in the United States for his supporting roles in the Robert Mitchum film Yakuza, which was pretty damn good, and the Ridley Scott-Michael Douglas film Black Rain, which stunk like a week-old dead cat left out in the hot Georgia sun.
		To say Takakura Ken "stars" as Tetsuo Okita is somewhat misleading, as these types of movies are very much ensemble cast affairs, with equal importance placed on the villain, the main guy in the control room, and the hapless conductor or pilot of whatever happens to be getting threatened.
		Takakura Ken is fabulous as the determined but troubled mastermind of the crime.
	www.teleport-city.com /movies/reviews/a-b/bullet_train.html (2703 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Black Rain \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		Though Douglas is partnered with Garcia for the film's first half, he is eventually paired with Ken Takakura — a Japanese actor who has been referred to as "The Japanese Clint Eastwood" for his many roles in violent films about the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia).
		Takakura is terrific, easily playing the most sympathetic character in the film, with his understated performance the perfect antidote to Douglas' ugly American.
		Garcia is quite good, but Takakura and Matsuda, the latter very good as the nastiest villain to hit the movies in some time, offer the only depth of character.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,198,00.html (540 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: The Yakuza
		Mitchum is owed a debt of honor by a onetime yakuza member (Takakura Ken), and he goes to Japan to collect on it.
		Mitchum was a member of the American occupying forces after the war and saved the life of Ken's nearest female relative and her daughter.
		Ken spent six years hiding out in a cave in the Philippines before returning to Japan, where (as he puts it) his pride was offended because the woman had put him in a position of debt to his enemy.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19750101/REVIEWS/501010373/1023 (538 words)

	cityonfire.com \| The Yakuza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The main emphasis of this film is the relationship between Kilmer and Ken. While Ken was believed dead in the war, Kilmer was taking care of his sister and young niece.
		Ken resents Kilmer because of his sister's relationship with him, a gaijin, but is also in great debt to him for taking care of his family in his absence, and that is why he agrees to help rescue the girl.
		The relationship between these two characters, Ken and Kilmer, is what drives the film, and Takakura Ken and Robert Mitchum give such believable performances, that the tension is quite convincing.
	www.cityonfire.com /hkrelated/yakuza.html (575 words)

	Lycos Movies - Biography - Ken Takakura
		Like American film star John Wayne, Ken Takakura has defined the Japanese man and has had a prolific superstar film career, appearing in more than 200 films, shifting from "yakuza" or crime-action films to more mainstream fare.
		A graduate of Meiji University, Takakura studied commerce, but turned to acting soon after graduation, making his screen debut in 1955 in "Denko Karate-uchi".
		Takakura did not pursue any ongoing connection with Hollywood, but rather continued to make Japanese hits, including "Eki/Station" (1981), "Antarctica" (1982), and "A Un/Buddies" (1989), films with little release in the West.
	sonique.lycos.com /movies/celeb_bio.php?id=30049 (259 words)

	Ken Takakura - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ken Takakura is a Japanese actor best known for his brooding style and the stoic, honorable presence he brings to his roles.
		Toei found a natural in Takakura as he debuted with Denko Karate Uchi (Lightning Karate Blow) in 1956.
		Takakura gained international recognition after starring in the 1975 Sydney Pollack sleeper hit _Yakuza, The (1975)_ 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 Garcia with "Listen, I do speak f***ing English".
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0847264/bio (427 words)

	Never Give Up (1978)
		Premise: Ex-special service soldier Ajisawa (Ken Takakura) and a young girl he has adopted after she survived a rural massacre arrive in a small town ruled by a corrupt official.
		In the movie, a small rural village in modern-day Japan is the setting for a massacre after a passing female jogger encounters Ajisawa (Ken Takakura), a lone special service soldier in the midst of a grueling, 30-day wilderness survival training mission that has already caused several other soldiers to go mad.
		What helps are the performances of Ken Takakura as a quiet man haunted by his past and teen idol Hiroko Yakushimaru who does the disturbed child routine quite well.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/n/nevergiveup_032005.htm (967 words)

	Eki Station (1981) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Takakura plays to type as the laconic brooder who suffers multiple tragedies with manly stoicism.
		Takakura is a cop training to be a sharpshooter for the Olympic games, he divorces his wife and abandons his daughter when he discovers she's had an affair.
		The story is a bit thick, with a number of subplots, yet it is extrordinarily melancholic, as Takakura seems to regret everything he's done in his life and is made over and over again to relive his mistakes.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0083124 (289 words)

	Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles NEW DVD Zhang Yimou~Ken Takakura: 8200001 movieSville
		The star of Riding alone for Thousands of Miles is 74-year old veteran Japanese actor Takakura Ken. Director Zhang Yimou said he had been an admirer of Ken for 30 years and he created the film just for work with Ken once.
		The film begins with a Japanese fisherman (Takakura Ken) arrived in Tokyo to see his ailing son (Kiichi Nakai) but his son refuse to meet him because of something unforgivable his father did many years ago.
		Ken Takakura is acting as Takada, a Japanese fishman whose son is diagnosed incurable disease but refuses to see him for the past unsolvable conflicts between them.
	stores.channeladvisor.com /moviesville/Items/8200001 (597 words)

	Mad About Movies » Blog Archive Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles » Mad About Movies
		Yimou has been pining to work with his childhood idol Ken Takakura for years and this script is the culmination of six years of work created solely with Takakura in mind as the lead and this comes through clearly in the film.
		His choice to make the trip to China to film an opera which, he hopes, will salvage his relationship with his son is not a choice that we question.
		Although we know very little of either father or son when Takata begins his journey, Takakura creates such a desperate character in the short span of 10 minutes that this seems like the only alternative.
	madaboutmovies.net /?p=117 (765 words)

	ICQGreetings.com Amazon Store :: The Yakuza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ken Takakura helps him out, and their growing friendship despite their many differences is a major them of the movie.
		Ken Takakura was on his baby steps into Hollywood but still at the top of his game.
		He must call on friends he made after World War II for favors and finds himself unintentionally trampling on issues of honor, even as he battles for his life and that of the girl he is seeking.
	www.icqgreetings.com /amazon/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=6300270432 (1431 words)

	A Question of Authorship: The Yakuza
		Ken has an older brother, Tanaka Goro, oyabun or advisor to the clans, whose own son is a violent yakuza, turning against his own father and family.
		Ken is actually Eiko's husband, and he is so grateful to Harry for saving her life and that of their daughter, Hanako, that he steps aside, in an extraordinary sacrifice of his own personal happiness
		Ken and Eiko's daughter is killed by Goro's son in yakuza crossfire in Wheat's apartment, in a parallel to Tanner's daughter's kidnapping, which catalysed the whole story.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/37/yakuza.html (3363 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Zhang Yimou expressed, working with Ken Takakura has always been his dream because the 74 year old Ken Takakura was an expert in playing the silent, patient characters with humanity.
		In the film Ken Takakura plays a Japanese father who goes all over China to help his dying son fulfill his dream.
		Ken Takakura and Zhang Yimou have known each other for 15 years.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Towers/2038/050217.txt (12597 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Yakuza at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Japan, Kilmer enlists the aid of Tanaka Ken (Ken Takakura), the brother of an old heartthrob, Eiko (Keiko Kishi).
		By using Tanaka Ken, a former Yakuza who came out of retirement to help Kilmer, he has put him in mortal danger from the Yakuza leader.
		The other Japanese characters are well-played by Japanese actors and the cultural identity, as inscrutable as it may be to a westerner, is left intact to delight the viewer.
	www.epinions.com /content_72302431876 (891 words)

	DigiGuide : Ken Takakura
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	library.digiguide.com /lib/person/3803 (83 words)

	Midnight Eye review: Yasha (1985)
		Retired yakuza gangster Shuji (Ken Takakura) moves back from Osaka to a remote coastal village to start a new life as a fisherman with his family, his arrival from the city coinciding with that of the beautiful bar hostess Keiko (Yuko Tanaka, who provided the voice of Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke).
		Keiko's new bar, as its name Hotaru ('firefly') suggests is soon acting as a magnet for all the local fishermen, much to the chagrin of their wives.
		Kitano's role here is suitably spirited as the heroin-addicted louche who has fallen on bad times, almost upstaging that of real lynchpin of the piece, Ken Takakura.
	www.midnighteye.com /reviews/yasha.shtml (475 words)

	Kendo World Forums - Yakuza!
		The Yakuza is with Robert Mitchum and Takakura Ken. It's not really a martial-arts movie, it stands on its own.
		The only swordwork is at the end when Mitchum and Takakura take out the bad guys headquarters armed with shotgun and katana respectively.
		A bit OT but of other films of Ken Takakura's, you gotta give "Mr Baseball" a try.
	www.kendo-world.com /forum/printthread.php?t=798 (846 words)

	The Bullet Train
		A television crew breaks out cameras documenting the entire event to sell if they make it off alive, and the conductor is absolutely terrified.
		With a cast consisting of Chiba, Takakura, Sue Shiomi (Sister Streetfighter, Golgo 13 — Assignment Kowloon), Takashi Shimura (The Seven Samurai), Eiji Go (Tokyo Drifter) not to mention Tetsuro Tamba (Story of Riki), the film was a veritable “who’s who” of Japanese action and crime movies.
		Fans have been waiting a long time for this previously very rare film to get released on DVD, and although I’m glad to finally have it in my collection, I wish the presentation had been a lot better and the film had been properly restored.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/A-D/bullet_train.html (511 words)

	Big in Japan
		As John Deere is to Midwestern fields, as Q-tips are to ears, so is Ken Takakura to the portrayal of gruff Japanese masculinity.
		I've read that Takakura extended his popularity westward when China, emerging from the Cultural Revolution, chose one of his pictures to be its first movie import in years.
		In Riding Alone Takakura plays the rough-hewn Takata, a provincial widower who lives alone in a fishing village and has been estranged for many years from his grown son, Ken-ichi.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20060925/klawans (1211 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
		In Japan, a village fisherman, Gou-ichi Takata (Ken Takakura), is summoned to Tokyo by his daughter-in-law, Rie (Shinobu Terajima), when her husband, Ken-ichi (Kiichi Nakai), is hospitalized with liver cancer.
		Though both Qiu, as the interpreter, and Yang, as Li's young son, are born scene-stealers, pic hangs -- as it was designed to -- on the commanding perfperf of Japanese vet Takakura.
		Known to Western viewers largely for "Black Rain" (1989) and "The Yakuza" (1975), Takakura brings an almost John Wayne-like quality to the stony-faced character of Gou-ichi, silently communicating the fisherman's sorrow with eloquence.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117928672?categoryid=1263 (773 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Bullet Train (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A terrorist mob, led by likeable villain Tetsuo (Takakura Ken), plants a bomb in the bowels of a shinkansen (that's "bullet train" for you non-japanese speaking folks).
		Aiding him are the men in the control room, headed by Kuramochi (Utsui Ken), monitoring the trains that go back and forth and radio-ing precise orders to avoid accidents.
		Made in 1975 as a "disaster" flick, it stars Ken Takakura, who you may recognize from 1989's "Black Rain" and 1975's "The Yakuza".
	www.cityonfire.com /japanese/bullettrain.html (1195 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Black Rain on DVD
		Kate Capshaw, Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura,
		Academy Award - winner Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia play New York cops whose job to escort a vicious assassin back to his native Japan leads the two Americans into Osaka's exotic underworld and straight into the center of a raging, brutal "Yakuza" gangland battle.
		Douglas' most excellent rants and rages) is regal Japanese star Ken Takakura as Detective Masahiro.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=52 (458 words)

	US Patent Inventors Starting with the Letter T - Patent Storm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		2 inventors named Takakura, Akio have been found, please choose one based on his/her location:
		2 inventors named Takakura, Akira have been found, please choose one based on his/her location:
		4 inventors named Takakura, Eiichi have been found, please choose one based on his/her location:
	www.patentstorm.us /inventors/T-13.html (2118 words)

	Japanese Visual Culture
		At bottom center is the actor Takakura Ken, the star of many yakuza (Japanese gangster) films of the 1960's.
		From behind Takakura comes the caption "Shinde moraimasho" ("You'll have to die!"); to the left and right are the titles of two of Takakura's films.
		At top center is the image of a severed little finger: the act of severing a little finger signifies loyalty to a yakuza boss.
	w00.middlebury.edu /ID085A/postwar/gallery3.html (1078 words)

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