这儿有一份他难得/少有的访谈(2013年)，谈他喜欢的电影和演技

Some parting words from Yakuza movie icon Takakura Ken on yakuza films, his favourite movies, and acting

这一段可以很好地为楼主释惑：“In the 1960s, as Japan was still recovering from its lost war and musing over the the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the Japanese audience wanted to see heroes in the black market making justice in the streets and feeding the dismissed hungry people, right after the war. ”

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