November 18, 2014
Japanese actor dead
TOKYO (AP) — Ken Takakura, a craggy-faced, quiet star known for playing outlaws and stoic heroes in scores of Japanese films, has died of lymphoma. He was 83.
Perhaps best known abroad for his police inspector role in Ridley Scott’s Black Rain in 1989, Takakura died Nov 10 at a Tokyo hospital where he was treated for the illness, according to his office and media reports yesterday.