Miwa Takada

Acting

Miwa Takada

Born

1947-01-05 (79)

Place of birth

Kyoto City, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1960s · 23 titles

Zatoichi the Fugitive poster
6.9

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.

Zatoichi the Fugitive

1963

Secret Assignment poster
10.0

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.

Secret Assignment

1967

Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman poster
6.8

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman

1968

The Man Disappears Yesterday poster
NR

Tired of everyday life, the 8th Shogun Yoshimune flees Edo Castle and asks Ooka Echizen to become his personal assistant. In a rice shop, Yoshimune meets a simple ronin Ohashi Kenshiro, and receives permission to stay at his house, but a mysterious corpse awaits him in the house... And then the second, third and fourth murders occur...

The Man Disappears Yesterday

1964

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters poster
6.6

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

1968

Zatoichi Challenged poster
7.0

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

Zatoichi Challenged

1967

Daimajin poster
6.5

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

Daimajin

1966

The Fencing Master poster
5.9

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.

The Fencing Master

1962

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure poster
5.8

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure

1964

High School Third Graders poster
NR

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with this song as a motif. Singer and actor Funaki Kazuo also appears in the movie, which depicts the fun, love and heartbreak in a Japanese school.

High School Third Graders

1963

Adventures of Zatoichi poster
6.7

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.

Adventures of Zatoichi

1964

Young Boss: Invitation to Fight poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Young Boss: Invitation to Fight

1966

The Demon of Sendai's Castle poster
NR

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four advisors from his entourage were assassinated, calling into question the possessions of the Date family.

The Demon of Sendai's Castle

1962

The Two Bodyguards poster
8.0

Film directed by Kenji Misumi

The Two Bodyguards

1968

Maiko and the Assassin poster
NR

19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.

Maiko and the Assassin

1963

Drunken Harbor poster
NR

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

Drunken Harbor

1966

The Third Will poster
7.7

AKA Family of Women. A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father.

The Third Will

1963

Yôki na tono-sama poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yôki na tono-sama

1962

Green Fruit poster
NR

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man disappears

Green Fruit

1964

Sweet Seventeen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sweet Seventeen

1964

The Suitors poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Suitors

1967

牝犬脱走 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

牝犬脱走

1965

わが愛を星に祈りて poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

わが愛を星に祈りて

1966

Series credits