Kaku Takashina

Acting

Kaku Takashina

Born 1919-02-22 · Iioka-machi, Chiba, Japan

Acting credits

Heat Wave poster
5.9

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

Heat Wave

1991

Tattooed Life poster
7.2

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Tattooed Life

1965

Saijoke no kyoen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saijoke no kyoen

1951

Outlaw: Gangster VIP poster
6.7

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.

Outlaw: Gangster VIP

1968

To the Ends of the Earth poster
NR

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his once happier past and the events that destroyed everyone he held dear.

To the Ends of the Earth

1953

Story of a Prostitute poster
6.7

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Story of a Prostitute

1965

Haha no mizūmi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haha no mizūmi

1953

Smashing the 0-Line poster
6.3

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?

Smashing the 0-Line

1960

The Angry Rambler poster
NR

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

The Angry Rambler

1960

Haha chidori poster
NR

Due to obligation, they parted ways, but mother and child meet again in front of the father's grave.

Haha chidori

1951

New Enoshima Elegy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

New Enoshima Elegy

1953

Afternoon When Flowers Fell poster
8.0

A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted to take over the restaurant from her late husband, she hires her late husband's best friend, a private detective, to investigate.

Afternoon When Flowers Fell

1989

The Return of the Filthy Seven poster
9.0

A 1967 crime film

The Return of the Filthy Seven

1967

The Maid's Kid poster
8.3

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.

The Maid's Kid

1955

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

無情の夢 poster
NR

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Mujo no yume" by Mitsuo Sagawa.

無情の夢

1961

Daigaku no kotengu poster
NR

With his mother’s wishes and a young woman’s prayers in his heart, a spirited young man fights to uphold the honor of college judo.

Daigaku no kotengu

1952

Kill the Night Rose poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kill the Night Rose

1966

Doing What I Please poster
NR

Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that have been damaged in accidents at a low price and scraps them for his own company. He uses the money he earns in this way to pay back Kanda Trading. Morita, the president of the company, is suspicious about the identity of Kanda Trading, from whom he borrowed money. However, what is borrowed must be repaid, and Koichi drives to Toyokawa to beg his grandfather for money as his scrap business is not going well. In addition to begging for money, Koichi has another secret purpose...

Doing What I Please

1961

Haha no hitomi poster
NR

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

Haha no hitomi

1953

The Heartbreak Yakuza poster
5.0

A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.

The Heartbreak Yakuza

1987

The Flower and the Sword poster
NR

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.

The Flower and the Sword

1964

Shunsetsu no mon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shunsetsu no mon

1953

Zoku bakurō ichidai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zoku bakurō ichidai

1952