Akira Takarada was a Japanese film actor best known for his roles in the Godzilla film series.
Akira Takarada Biography / Wiki
| Name | Akira Takarada |
| Also Know | å®ç”°æ˜Ž , Ðкира Такарада |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Harbin, China |
| Date of Birth | 1934-04-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 87 |
| Deathday | 2022-03-14 |
Akira Takarada Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Mothra vs. Godzilla | Ichiro “Ichi” Sakai | 1964-04-29 | Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra’s fairies… |
| Godzilla | Hideto Ogata | 1954-11-03 | Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far m… |
| Ebirah, Horror of the Deep | Yoshimura | 1966-12-17 | Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and… |
| King Kong Escapes | Lt. Commander Jiro Nomura | 1967-07-22 | 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 ro… |
| Golden Eyes | Andrew Hoshino | 1968-03-16 | A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo…. |
| Ironfinger | Andrew Hoshino | 1965-12-05 | 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 t… |
| Half Human | Takeshi Iijima | 1955-08-14 | Three competing parties all race again time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman…. |
| Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction | Himself | 2015-07-11 | An independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world’s greatest monster, Godzilla. Filmed on location in Tokyo t… |
| A Night in Hong Kong | Hiroshi Tanaka | 1961-07-01 | Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who me… |
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| The Great Buddha: Arrival | 2018-12-15 | 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 … | |
| A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 | Tatsuo Ito | 1957-07-09 | An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film…. |
| A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1 | 1957-07-09 | 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 | Himself – Actor | 2019-04-02 | 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 … |
| The Dangerous Kiss | 1960-06-26 | Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion…. | |
| Me and Me | Akihiko Kinugasa | 1962-08-11 | Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong v… |
| A Sparkle of Life | 2013-11-16 | 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, King of the Monsters! | Ogata | 1956-04-27 | During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monste… |
| Invasion of Astro-Monster | Astronaut K. Fuji | 1965-12-19 | 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 f… |
| The Last War | Takano | 1961-10-08 | This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon…. |
| A Wanderer’s Notebook | Fukuya | 1962-09-29 | Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine â… |
| Woman of Design | Kosuke Sakai | 1962-01-28 | Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm…. |
| Star of Hong Kong | Toru Hasegawa | 1962-07-14 | Love story of a Japanese man (Takarada) and a Chinese medical student (Yu Ming)…. |
| Someday I’ll Know | Daisuke Kaneko | 1959-09-08 | A modern love story involving different affairs…. |
| City of Love | Kunio Murata | 1958-01-21 | 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 bar… |
| The Paradise Island Story | 1957-01-29 | Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific…. | |
| The Longest Night | ç”°ä¸æ¸…辉 | 1965-01-01 | … |
| Travels of Lord Mito | Sukesaburô Sasaki | 1969-11-01 | In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesabu… |
| Birth of Romance | Ichirô Yabe | 1957-05-15 | The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku’s father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hiba… |
| A World Without Cherry Blossoms | 2022-04-01 | Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser…. | |
| Latitude Zero | Dr. Ken Tashiro | 1969-07-26 | A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Al… |
| Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion | Kobayashi (general manager) | 1992-05-16 | 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 c… |
| A Woman’s Life | Koichi Shimizu | 1963-11-16 | A woman remember’s her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son…. |
| Samurai Saga | Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe | 1959-04-28 | 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 lady…. |
| The Lovelorn Geisha | 1960-07-12 | 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 hi… | |
| The Big Boss | Mineo Komatsu | 1959-01-15 | Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping… |
| Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman | The Boy (Her Brother) | 1958-12-01 | 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 … |
| Price of Beauty | Koichi Yamawaki | 1957-03-13 | Melodrama about a young factory girl who “chooses riches over chastity”…. |
| Legend of Plumeria | 1983-07-02 | … | |
| A Whistle in My Heart | 1959-03-29 | 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…. | |
| Daughters, Wives and a Mother | Reiji Sakanishi | 1960-05-21 | Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-law… |
| On Wings of Love | Hajime Kyosu | 1957-07-13 | 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… |
| Godzilla | Ogata | 1977-01-01 | The film is a re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla featuring 80 minutes of footage from the original Gojira (1954) and the US version… |
| Devils-in-Law | 1968-01-14 | … | |
| Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra | Himself | 2010-01-22 | A look into the production of the nineteenth Godzilla film. Includes filmmaker and actor interviews with behind the scenes footage of the film’s visua… |
| Fantastipo | 2005-02-10 | 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 director…. | |
| Yaji and Kita on the Road | Akinosuke Takarai | 1958-04-29 | 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 wi… |
| 47 Ronin | Gunpei Takada | 1962-11-03 | The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual … |
| Godzilla vs. Mothra | Environmental Planning Board Chief Jyoji Minamino | 1992-12-12 | Mothra’s dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by callin… |
| Bridge over Troubled Water | CEO Ogata | 2018-06-30 | 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 co… |
| Dance with Me | Machin Ueda | 2019-08-16 | 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 Daphne | Kudo | 1966-10-01 | Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffer… |
| Tales of a Golden Geisha | Inukai | 1990-06-02 | 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 her… |
| Godzilla: Final Wars | UN Secretary General Naotarô Daigo | 2004-12-04 | Humanity final rids themselves of Godzilla, in-prisoning him in an icy tomb at the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay wa… |
| Let’s Go! Young Guy | Kou Kure | 1967-01-01 | College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his sigh… |
| Glory to the Filmmaker! | 2007-06-02 | 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 hi… | |
| Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects | Himself | 2008-08-03 | A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who’ve maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is Yasu… |
| The Masterless 47 – Part II | 1961-02-25 | … | |
| Jacks and Jills | Kubota | 1956-08-15 | … |
| Sure Death 6 | 1996-05-25 | 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 assass… | |
| The Three Treasures | Prince Wakatarashi | 1959-11-01 | 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 Empe… |
| The Wiser Age | Rokkakuya Kou | 1962-01-14 | Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner…. |
| Storm Over the Pacific | 1960-04-26 | 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 1… | |
| Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody | 2019-03-09 | Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transf… | |
| The End of Summer | Teramoto Tadashi | 1961-10-29 | 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 mis… |
| A Far Promise | 2014-08-25 | 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 … | |
| The Audition | Emcee | 1984-11-17 | Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!… |
| Woman in Witness Protection | 1997-09-27 | Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnera… | |
| Beyond the Hills | Kentaro – Ueshima | 1960-02-02 | Story of young love in the hills…. |
| Godzilla | Immigration Officer | 2014-05-14 | 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, Joe…. |
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