Akira Takarada
Popularity:0.52
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1934-04-29
Place of Birth:Harbin, China
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Also Known As:Акира Такарада, آکیرا تاکارادا

Godzilla (1954)
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover...

Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's...

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island...

Fantastipo (2005)
Two brothers must take the helm of their family's company, Armadillo, Inc., after their father steps down from his position as the company's...

The End of Summer (1961)
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife (1959)
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...

Long Way to Okinawa (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Road to the Don 12 (2000)
The twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.

Chûshingura (1962)
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay...

Travels of Lord Mito (1969)
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals,...

King Kong Escapes (1967)
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the...

Latitude Zero (1969)
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The...

Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by...

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world...

The Man of the Political Economy (2015)
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to...

Birth of Romance (1957)
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...

The Last War (1961)
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

Beyond the Hills (1960)
Story of young love in the hills.

Yaji and Kita on the Road (1958)
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean (1957)
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...

Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they...

Different Sons (1961)
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

The Storm of the Pacific (1960)
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1958)
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote...

A Woman's Life (1963)
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Golden Eyes (1968)
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.

A World Without Cherry Blossoms (2022)
Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.

Half Human (1955)
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

Ironfinger (1965)
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning...

Samurai Saga (1959)
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as...

My name is Reiko Shiratori! The Movie (1995)
Reiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was engaged to Takada, pretended not to be interested in her...

A Whistle in My Heart (1959)
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

The Lovelorn Geisha (1960)
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Legend of Plumeria (1983)
Emiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira Kuniyoshi (Shinji Yamashita), the son of the president of a...

The Masterless 47 (1960)
Part one of The Masterless 47.

A Sparkle of Life (2013)
Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life partner. Her family and friends try to dissuade her.

Godzilla Battle Royale (2014)
Godzilla Battle Royale is a low-budget Godzilla fan film, directed and written by Billy DuBose. It was theatrically screened in the Pickwick Theater.

Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...

Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary (2005)
Because his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he moved to PCL (currently Toho) in 1933, where he...

Godzilla (1977)
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956),...

Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction (2015)
An independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world's greatest monster, Godzilla. Filmed on location in Tokyo...

Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

The Big Boss (1959)
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

Woman of Design (1962)
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects (2008)
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is...

The Wiser Age (1962)
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: Sannin yoreba (1964)
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer's investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal...

Godzilla (2014)
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father,...

A Night in Hong Kong (1961)
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

Blood and Diamonds (1964)
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

Sure Death 6 (1996)
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an...

Star of Hong Kong (1962)
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....

The Three Treasures (1959)
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

Price of Beauty (1957)
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

Bridge over Troubled Water (2018)
Miyuki works as an OL. Her younger sibling died from a car accident in 1989. Due to her sibling's death, her mother became ill and her father drank...

Someday I'll Know (1959)
A modern love story involving different affairs.

Let's Go! Young Guy (1967)
College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his...

Dance with Me (2019)
Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and left under the spell. Now she is compelled to sing...

The Great Buddha Arrival (2018)
An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Country, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro...

The Daphne (1966)
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

City of Love (1958)
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 (1957)
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

A Far Promise (2014)
There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orphans of Manchuria refugee camp who had to struggled...

Woman in Witness Protection (1997)
Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed. Under the watch of...

The Paradise Island Story (1957)
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.

On Wings of Love (1957)
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...

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1 (1957)
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga (2019)
Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film...

Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra (2010)
A look into the production of the nineteenth Godzilla film. Includes filmmaker and actor interviews with behind the scenes footage of the film's...

Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody (2019)
Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is...

The Dangerous Kiss (1960)
Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

The Audition (1984)
Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

Me and Me (1962)
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong...

Morishige, where are you going? (1956)
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong (1963)
The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchise, taking stars Lucilla You Min and Takarada...

Shusse kōsu ni shinro o tore (1961)
1961 Japanese movie

Arashi o Yobu Gakudan (1960)
Musical about the "Blue Star," a struggling jazz band led by pianist Takarada and trumpet player Takashima and their love interests. Done very much...

Keisei Saimin no Otoko (2015)
A 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK.

Homework (1992)
A drama about two young couples, both of them having problem keeping their relationship together.

Carnation (2011)
Carnation is a Japanese television drama that aired in the Asadora slot on NHK from 3 October 2011 to 31 March 2012. It is the 85th Asadora. It is...

My name is Reiko Shiratori! (1993)
The series follows the rich, beautiful, and stuck-up Reiko Shiratori, who has been in love with her friend Tetsuya Akimoto since childhood.

Watashi no Aozora (2000)
This is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town at the tip of a peninsula in Aomori. Taiyo's father,...

Prince Shotoku (2001)
In the late 6th century the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of a unified state. Battles still raged among various...

Nukata no Ōkimi (1980)
A historical romance about the life of Princess Nukata, a Manyo poetess who was loved by two brothers, Emperor Tenji and Emperor Tenmu, and the...