Akira Takarada Movies

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Story of young love in the hills.

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

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

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

Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

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

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film...

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

During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in love and jealousy among visiting skiers....

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a...

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.

Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where personal ties and painful...

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals,...