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Nov 18, 2014 · Ken Takakura, right, as a police officer, with Michael Douglas in Ridley Scott’s Black Rain (1989). Photograph: Paramount/Everett/Rex. Crime films. This article is more than 9 years old....
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Black Rain is a 1989 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Douglas, Andy García, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Yūsaku Matsuda and Tomisaburo Wakayama. The film focuses on two NYPD detectives who arrest a member of the yakuza and must escort him back to Japan .
- September 22, 1989
Nov 21, 2014 · He was best known outside Japan for his police inspector role in Ridley Scott’s 1989 thriller Black Rain. He surged to stardom after his 1956 debut, becoming a staple of yakuza films such as ...
Sep 22, 1989 · Black Rain: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw. Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.
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Actor: Black Rain. Ken Takakura was a Japanese actor best known for his brooding style and the stoic, honorable presence he brought to his roles. Known as the "Clint Eastwood" of Japan, Takakura gained his streetwise swagger and tough guy persona watching yakuza turf battles over the lucrative black market and racketeering in postwar Fukuoka.
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- Nakama, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Tokyo, Japan
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Actor: Black Rain. Ken Takakura was a Japanese actor best known for his brooding style and the stoic, honorable presence he brought to his roles. Known as the "Clint Eastwood" of Japan, Takakura gained his streetwise swagger and tough guy persona watching yakuza turf battles over the lucrative black market and racketeering in postwar Fukuoka.
He gained international recognition after starring in the 1970 war film Too Late the Hero as the cunning Imperial Japanese Major Yamaguchi, the 1974 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), in which he surprises American cops played by ...
