Mr. Baseball (1992) more movies like this

directed by Fred Schepisi
featuring Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Ava Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert, Toshi Shioya

When has-been baseball player Jack Elliot (Tom Selleck) is signed by a Japanese team, he is initially reluctant to take the game seriously. Elliot is very successful, though, as he teaches the team about American chutzpah, and they remind him of the value of respect. He must fight his way out from under a slump to show that he deserves the title. ...

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Black Rain (1989) more movies like this

directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Shigeru Koyama, Yusaku Matsuda

Under scrutiny by his superiors for allegedly dipping into confiscated drug money, New York vice cop Michael Douglas can expect no sympathy from his ex-wife, who is gouging him for alimony. Douglas gets a chance to redeem himself when he is assigned to escort Japanese mob boss Yusaku Matsuda back to his own country to stand trial. Upon arriving in ...

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The Yakuza (1975) more movies like this

directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan

Between making They Way We Were and Three Days of The Condor, Sydney Pollack directed this little-seen thriller from a script by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne. The Yakuza stars Robert Mitchum as Harry Kilmer, a former soldier who returns to Japan to help rescue the daughter of his friend George Tanner (Brian Keith). Once he arrives in the country ...

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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Ken Takakura, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Terashima, Li Jiamin, Qiu Lin, Jiang Wen

On the heels of such extravagant historical swordplay epics as Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Mainland Chinese director Zhang Yimou returns to the reins to tell this intimate tale of an aging father who attempts to remedy a longstanding rift with his grown son. Summoned to Tokyo by his daughter-in-law, Rie (Shinobu Terajima), village fisherman ...

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47 Ronin (1994) more movies like this

directed by Kon Ichikawa
featuring Ken Takakura, Ruriko Asaoka, Koji Ishizaka

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the invention of film, Toho studios produced this remake of Chushingura, a paean of feudal devotion and one of the most retold tales in all of Japanese cinema. Legendary filmmaker Kon Ichikawa reworks this old chestnut by trying find a psychological truth in the characters and the historical truth of the time ...

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Antarctica (1984) more movies like this

directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara
featuring Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Masako Natsume, Takeshi Kusaka

Somewhat reminiscent of The Incredible Journey and Milo and Otis -- though much harsher in its approach -- Antarctica focusses in on a team of sled dogs, owned by a team of snowbound Japanese researchers. A relief team is long overdue, forcing the dogs to fend for themselves. Eight of the dogs break free from their chains, roaming the Antarctic ...

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Never Give Up (1978) more movies like this

directed by Junya Sato
featuring Ken Takakura, Ryoko Nakano, Isao Natsuki, Rentaro Mikuni

Ajisawa (Ken Takakura) is a mysterious warrior in a secret Japanese paramilitary group who, while on a training exercise in the woods, stumbles into a group of rural party-makers. In the ensuing conflict he kills everyone except one young teenaged boy. The boy was wounded in the conflict, but Ajisawa adopts him and nurses him back to health. A ...

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