Guadalcanal Taka

Acting

Guadalcanal Taka

Born 1956-12-16 · Amagiyugashima, Shizuoka, Japan

Acting credits

Zatoichi poster
7.2

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

Zatoichi

2003

Boiling Point poster
6.9

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Boiling Point

1990

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge poster
6.6

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

2001

Getting Any? poster
5.7

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Getting Any?

1995

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City poster
5.9

A post-apocalyptic humankind in 2025 finds a hero in the form of Zebraman. But the Zebra Queen steals his powers, making him lose his ability to survive Zebra Time. But he wants his powers back.

Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City

2010

Helldriver poster
5.7

Still reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.

Helldriver

2010

Kim's War poster
NR

After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime.

Kim's War

1991

Translucent Tree poster
3.7

Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.

Translucent Tree

2004

14 That Night poster
4.5

In 1987, frustrated junior high student Takashi hates his uncool father hanging around their suburban home all the time, and is pestered by the area’s wannabe gangsters. But he’s interested in the girl next door, the bounteously-breasted Megumi. One day, Takashi hears a rumor that porn actress Kyoko Yokushimaru is coming to town for an autograph session at the only video store in town where Takashi and his judo friends always hang out. Their ridiculous but serious adventure begins. What will Takashi find after all the surprises and chaos? Recalling youth classics like Stand By Me, this is the debut feature of Shin Adachi, Japan Academy Prize-winning screenwriter of 100 Yen Love.

14 That Night

2016

Going Home poster
7.5

Haruo returns to his hometown for his mother’s second marriage, where he happens to meet his first love Miyuki for the first time in eight years. Miyuki is back in town with her daughter Chiharu, after leaving a failed marriage.

Going Home

2004

The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe poster
9.0

Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa.

The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe

1999

We Love Television? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

We Love Television?

2017

My Little Sweet Pea poster
6.2

It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to become an anime voice actress. Saving up for classes while she works part time in a manga store, she lives with her older, gambler brother after her father's death. When the mother she never knew turns up out of nowhere and moves in, it only causes irritation for the aspiring otaku. But when her mother just as quickly disappears, it leaves Mugiko (or "Sweet Pea") searching for answers, bringing her back to her mother's hometown to discover what happened to her mother's own dream.

My Little Sweet Pea

2013

Revenge of the Zebra Miniskirt Police poster
6.8

In the year 2024, the Governer of Tokyo puts a group of young girls through torturous training, and the three that remain - dubbed the Zebra Mini-Skirt Police - are charged with the task of protecting his life…

Revenge of the Zebra Miniskirt Police

2010

No artwork available
NR

Mitsuhiko, an assistant director, has an experience with a young call girl at a hotel one day. He enters into a "relationship" with the girl he meets there for 30,000 yen per intimate encounter, but gradually finds himself being manipulated by her.

18-Year-old Call Girl

1996

ZERO: Black Blood - Shiro no Shō poster
NR

Theatrical movie edit of the first three episodes of the miniseries ZERO: Black Blood.

ZERO: Black Blood - Shiro no Shō

2014

About Love, Tokyo poster
6.5

In Tokyo, a Chinese exchange student gets involved in rigged pachinko schemes and meets a Chinese girl raised in Japan. When they're caught cheating by a former yakuza now running a pachinko parlor, a tense triangle forms as money, power, and personal ties collide.

About Love, Tokyo

1992

The Ladies Pachinko Graffiti poster
NR

Nami works in a bank and has a hidden interest. She went to play Pachinko after work and showed great genius. The pachinko company regards her as the queen of pachinko.

The Ladies Pachinko Graffiti

1992

ZERO: Black Blood - Kuro no Shō poster
NR

Theatrical movie edit of the last three episodes of the miniseries ZERO: Black Blood.

ZERO: Black Blood - Kuro no Shō

2014

Mukoubuchi 4: High Stakes Mahjong Legend – Mahjong Parlor Killer poster
NR

A pair of Kansai-region underground mahjong hustlers begin storming Tokyo’s local mahjong parlors, scamming unsuspecting players with clever cheating techniques. One of their victims, Yasunaga Ban (played by pro-wrestler Takada Nobuhiko), is the owner of a mahjong parlor. Seeking revenge, he challenges them to a high-stakes match—but loses. As he's about to give up, a mysterious and feared man known only as “The Outsider” (Mukoubuchi), KAI (played by Yoshihiko Hakamada), enters the scene. Kai immediately sees through the Kansai duo's tricks and defeats them without mercy. However, a larger threat looms when a powerful figure from Kansai, Katsuta, comes to Tokyo, escalating the conflict to a new level of tension.

Mukoubuchi 4: High Stakes Mahjong Legend – Mahjong Parlor Killer

2025

Death of the Lion Kings poster
10.0

Tells the story of an up-and-coming Yakuza, who makes a name for himself alongside his two friends just before 1992, when the enforcement of the new gang law came in place.

Death of the Lion Kings

1993

高レート裏麻雀列伝 むこうぶち3 裏プロ poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

高レート裏麻雀列伝 むこうぶち3 裏プロ

2008

Kaeshi 2 poster
NR

After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Yamai is released thanks to Akiko but the search for Miyake's killer begins. Security camera footage reveals Seiji to be the culprit.

Kaeshi 2

2017

高レート裏麻雀列伝 むこうぶち poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

高レート裏麻雀列伝 むこうぶち

2007