Minoru Takashima

Acting

Minoru Takashima

Born 1930-09-15

Acting credits

Godzilla vs. Gigan poster
6.4

Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.

Godzilla vs. Gigan

1972

Dodes'ka-den poster
7.1

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

Dodes'ka-den

1970

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets poster
5.0

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets

1956

Easy-Going Married Couple poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Easy-Going Married Couple

1956

Outlaw poster
NR

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

Outlaw

1953

Falling Blossoms poster
NR

Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after his death.

Falling Blossoms

1967

The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart poster
8.7

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?

The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart

1963

The Green Years poster
NR

Drama about the trials and tribulations of a teenage girl.

The Green Years

1968

Song of Love poster
6.5

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

Song of Love

1967

A Grain of Wheat poster
NR

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.

A Grain of Wheat

1958

Beyond the Green Hills poster
7.0

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.

Beyond the Green Hills

1963

The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki poster
NR

When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the Malay front and occupied Singapore at once, and was praised as a "Malay tiger." However, the situation in Japan changed steadily by the failure of Sai pan from the GA Talca translation.

The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki

1953

日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦 poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

日米花嫁花婿入替取替合戦

1957

Kusa wo karu musume poster
7.0

1961 Japanese movie

Kusa wo karu musume

1961

Karada no naka o kaze ga fuku poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Karada no naka o kaze ga fuku

1957

Kaze to Ki to Sora to poster
NR

A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.

Kaze to Ki to Sora to

1964

Akatsuki no Kyūshū poster
NR

Japanese drama film.

Akatsuki no Kyūshū

1951

Bright Young Maidens poster
10.0

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a suitable lodger who will catch the eye of her daughter.

Bright Young Maidens

1958

On Wings of Love poster
10.0

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.

On Wings of Love

1957

A Chorus of One Million People poster
NR

A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher of a music class, invites Takuro Yoshida to Koriyama City to hold a concert. He then starts being harassed by the Hashimoto group, a local gangster group which manages the city's entertainment.

A Chorus of One Million People

1972

The Night of the Seagull poster
7.0

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.

The Night of the Seagull

1968

The Surf poster
8.0

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

The Surf

1954

Blood and Sea poster
NR

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her grandmother, Tom, who is in her sixties, her mother, Kura, and older sister, Saki, all women. Toma, despite her advanced age, is still the best diver in the village, Nami has grown up to be an excellent diver too. However, her older sister Saki was born with a mental disorder and no one in the village wants to do business with her. Nami, on the other hand, is very popular among the boys of the village, she is healthy and beautiful. The fisherman Shosaku is crazy about Nami, and day and night he asks her on dates. However, Nami has a crush on her cousin Yuji, who works for the fishermen's union, and casually rejects Shosaku's advances.

Blood and Sea

1965

No artwork available
NR

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

The Fencing Collegian

1956