Akira Takarada Movies

1962 Japanese movie

In the late 6th century, the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a unified state. Battles still raged among various...

Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) and teammate Oh-known collectively as ON-from the...

1961 Japanese movie

Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to...

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for a typically subservient Japanese wife.

Kurama Tengu uncovers a suspicious gold robbery tied to a political scheme within the shogunate. As he follows the clues, hidden alliances,...

Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.

Godzilla Battle Royale is a low-budget Godzilla fan film, directed and written by Billy DuBose. It was theatrically screened in the Pickwick Theater.

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social...

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

Romantic drama about three beautiful sisters, based on the acclaimed play.

The story follows a man haunted by debt and crime, who flees with his mistress on a tense journey marked by betrayals and desperate choices. The film...

Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We follow her ups and downs on the way to stardom as she...

The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchise, taking stars Lucilla You Min and Takarada...

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....