Japanese actor Ken Takakura dies at 83

Source: Agencies | November 18, 2014, Tuesday |

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Ken Takakura, an actor known as "Japan's Clint Eastwood" for his portrayal of tough but principled gangsters in over 100 movies and who gained international fame in director Ridley Scott's "Black Rain," has died at the age of 83, Reuters reported today.

Takakura, who played alongside US stars such as Tom Selleck and starred in movies directed by Sydney Pollack and China's Zhang Yimou, died on November 10 of lymphoma, his office said on Tuesday, according to the report.

Born Goichi Oda in Oita, on the southwestern island of Kyushu, Takakura got his start in film in 1955 when he dropped into an audition at Toei, one of Japan's biggest film studios, out of curiosity.

He became known to international audiences through roles in Pollack's 1975 "The Yakuza," where he starred with US actor Robert Mitchum, and the 1992 comedy "Mr. Baseball." In 2005 he appeared in Zhang's "Riding alone for Thousands of Miles."

But it was in the 1989 police thriller "Black Rain", where he played a Japanese policeman dealing with Michael Douglas in the role of an irritable New York cop, that he gained international renown.

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Japanese actor Ken Takakura dies at 83

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