Best movies of Hideki Takahashi

Actors : Takeshi Tsuruno, Ikue Ôtani, Hideki Takahashi, Rica Matsumoto,
Directors : Kunihiko Yuyama,

During their travels through the Unova region, Ash and his friends Iris and Cilan arrive in Eindoak Town, built around a castle called the Sword of the Vale. The three Trainers have come to...

Actors : Junko Asano, Yûsuke Kawazu, Chikako Miyagi, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

In Okayama in the mid-1930s, Kiroku attends high school and boards with a Catholic family whose daughter, Michiko, captures his heart. He must, however, hide his ardor and other aspects of ...

Actors : Akira Yamauchi, Masako Izumi, Hideki Takahashi, Yuji Kodaka,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Actors : Teruhiko Saigô, Takahiro Tamura, Ken Ogata, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Toranosuke Sugi, a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or stand on principle and for freedom?

Actors : Mayumi Shimizu, Kôji Wada, Masako Izumi, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Kô Nakahira,

More taiyozoku (sun tribe) + yakuza style craziness? Seemingly so.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Eiji Gô, Hideki Takahashi, Yuki Aresa,
Directors : Katsumi Nishikawa,

Adapted from a famous short story in Japan, The Izu Dancer is the story of a male teenager on vacation in the Izu peninsula who encounters a thirteen-year-old girl who is part of a ...

Actors : Masako Izumi, Hideki Takahashi, Asao Koike, Yoshi Katô,
Directors : Akinori Matsuo,

A more original story than usual for a ninkyô yakuza film.

Actors : Shinsuke Ashida, Hideaki Nitani, Hideki Takahashi, Chieko Matsubara,
Directors : Hiroshi Noguchi,

In 1884, conflict arises between two fencing dojos for supremacy in swordsmanship. After extensive training, young Gengo of the Ono dojo faces off against "Devil" Okada, the killing machine of the Kogen dojo, to settle the matter.

Actors : Hideki Takahashi, Michiko Saga, Kotohide Hatsui, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

While the first two pictures are serious action dramas, this film is basically a ninkyô action/comedy.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Sanae Kitabayashi, Hideki Takahashi, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

One of a duo of ninkyô films dealing with violent yakuza clan conflict, both starring Takahashi and Kobatashi. The other is called FIGHT aka FRIENDLY ENEMIES.

Actors : Kenjirô Ishiyama, Yôko Yamamoto, Kotoe Hatsui, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Motomu Ida,

Action film about young outlaws around the year 1910.

Actors : Sanae Kitabayashi, Hideki Takahashi, Ichirô Nakatani, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

A companion piece to DUEL aka ENDLESS DUEL, also directed by Masuda, with a nearly identical cast. Refreshingly well-written, with some notable, welcome variations on the standard ninkyô yakuza formula.

Actors : Yûjirô Ishihara, Hideki Takahashi, Ruriko Asaoka, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Akinori Matsuo,

Despite the potent writing team of Hoshikawa and director Matsuo, this is no more than just decent, not particularly memorable ninkyô yakuza programmer.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Jôji Takagi, Hiroko Ôgi, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Akinori Matsuo,

Ninkyô tale set in the late Meiji period.

Actors : Yôko Yamamoto, Sanae Kitabayashi, Hideki Takahashi, Asao Koike,
Directors : Motomu Ida,

Action drama about a gangster before the Second World War.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hideki Takahashi, Tatsuya Fuji, Chieko Matsubara,
Directors : Keiichi Ozawa,

A ninkyô saga featuring Matsubara who inadvertently becomes oyabun of her clan after father's death.

Actors : Naomi Hase, Hideki Takahashi, Shino Ikenami,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

Wearing a mask to hide his identity, a deadly swordsman challenges a tyrant from the Ruling Council of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Both TANUMA Okitsugu of the 'Roju' (Ruling Council) and his ...

Actors : Yoshiko Miyazaki, Hideki Takahashi, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Eiichi Kudô,

The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai of the Numata Clan stand up against their corrupt Chief Retainer and evil clan mistress.