Ken Takakura is in the spotlight again after his “partner publishes book” Reporters see his eloquence and the truth behind the “cloud-hiding furore

Takakura’s partner for 17 years, Takatsuki Oda, recently published a book titled “Ken Takakura, the Last Season. (Bungeishunju), which was published by Takatsuki Oda, Ken Takakura’s partner for 17 years.

The book describes in realistic detail his daily conversations with Mr. Takakura and his condition up to his death in November of the same year after being hospitalized in February of 2002 and repeatedly in and out of the hospital after being diagnosed with malignant lymphoma. I was drawn into the story so much that I read it all the way through, having been on the set many times when I was a reporter, and having conducted interviews and solo interviews with her.

The book is a valuable documentary book that records the last years of the real Ms. Takakura’s life, including details of her hospitalization and medical condition, which until then had rarely been reported, and various things that Ms. Takakura eloquently told Ms. Takatsuki.

Ms. Takatsuki had a fateful encounter with Mr. Takakura in 1996 in Hong Kong, where she was working as a freelance writer at the time, and later became his partner and adopted daughter in 2001, and is also the representative director of Takakura Promotion. Two years before his death, Mr. Takakura asked me

Two years before she passed away, Ms. Takakura told me, “Please leave a note about me. You know me best.

He said, “You know me best. Together with “Ken Takakura, His Love,” which was published in 2007, “Takakura Ken, His Love,” is a collection of Takakura’s works. (The same book), published in 1964, can be considered the definitive book on Mr. Takakura.

After reading the book, I recalled many things I did when I covered Mr. Takakura as a reporter in charge of movies. There are too many episodes of Mr. Takakura, but one of the most memorable is the interview in October 1975 at the Hokkaido location of Daiei’s “Kimi yo Rage no Kawa o Watarete” that marked a turning point for Mr. Takakura.

It was a film made by another company after he left Toei, to which he had belonged for about 20 years.

The director is Junya Sato (from Toei), so I don’t feel like I am working somewhere else,” he said.

But he said, “It’s only one company (Toei),

I think it is necessary in the film industry from now on to have the right person in the right place in order to cast the best, not just one company (Toei). There is no Toei or Daiei.

I was impressed by his enthusiasm.

From now on, each film will be a battle,” he said with determination.

He said with determination, “From now on, each film will be a battle.

In contrast to the “taciturn Ken-san” of the ninkyo era, Mr. Takakura was very talkative in those days.