May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 158

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
TAKANASHI, YUTAKA.
Homage to Ken Takakura.
A sumptuous production containing 24 mounted reproductions of Takanashi's black-and-white and color photographs documenting Takakura's film career. With an original signed silver print housed in a separate folder. Folio, folding black cloth chemise with a photo-pictorial reproduction, housed in a die-cut suade slipcase; in the original card box with a photo-pictorial title label; with the colophon and other printed matter; contents loose as issued. first edition.
Tokyo, 1983

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Takakura, an iconic figure in Japan and the star of innumberable Yakuza crime movies in the 1960s and 1970s, may be best known to American audiences for his role in Tom Selleck's "Mr. Baseball" (1992).