Akira Terao
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1947-05-18
Locus Natus: Kanagawa, Japan
Et ut: 寺尾聰, Акира Тэрао, 寺尾聪
Ran
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...
release : 1985.06.01popularis : 26.787
Casshern
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of...
release : 2004.04.24popularis : 15.086
Into the Sun
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven...
release : 2005.11.26popularis : 10.744
Dreams
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
release : 1990.05.11popularis : 13.868
Madadayo
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
release : 1993.04.17popularis : 10.61
After the Rain
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...
release : 2000.01.22popularis : 12.025
Lost Paradise
Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko....
release : 1997.05.10popularis : 7.614
The Village
This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and,...
release : 1976.04.12popularis : 2.082
The Crow In Broad Daylight
One day, Tomonaga Takashi, a medical representative of pharmaceutical company Tenei Seiyaku, is suddenly suspected of molesting inside a train by...
release : 2018.01.11popularis : 1.367
Making of 'Dreams'
This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and...
release : 1990.11.02popularis : 2.027
Cat's Eye
Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.
release : 1997.08.30popularis : 4.037
The Professor and His Beloved Equation
This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.
release : 2006.01.21popularis : 2.949
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and...
release : 2001.03.17popularis : 2.257
Letter from the Mountain
Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.
release : 2002.10.05popularis : 4.728
Mom, Is That You?!
Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of...
release : 2023.09.01popularis : 4.68
The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...
release : 1968.03.01popularis : 3.315
Aegis
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No...
release : 2005.07.30popularis : 3.343
The Eternal Fountain
The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji...
release : 2012.06.16popularis : 1.307
Darkness in the Light
A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer...
release : 2001.02.17popularis : 2.44
Tokyo Marigold
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from...
release : 2001.05.12popularis : 3.342
The Imaginary
Amanda and her imaginary friend Rudger go on thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger finds himself alone, he faces a mysterious threat.
release : 2023.12.15popularis : 28.656
The Hungry Shinjuku Detective
The private eye of Shinjuku Yokubo Tantei is a lone wolf, lush, and loser but has kept his integrity in a dirty, dangerous world.
release : 1994.01.01popularis : 0.747
History of Jirocho Shimizu
A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's...
release : 1995.03.03popularis : 1.346
The Hovering Blade
Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice...
release : 2009.10.10popularis : 2.812
Awakening
After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriage seem to suddenly vanish as she finds out that...
release : 2007.01.27popularis : 2.838
Half a Confession
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its...
release : 2004.01.10popularis : 5.7
Fragments of the Last Will
Based on a true story - a true love story of a man and his wife who are at the mercy of fate, but wish to be reunited for 11 years. With thoughts of...
release : 2022.12.09popularis : 4.196
Mugonkan
A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring...
release : 2022.08.27popularis : 2.877
Welcome to Our Home
Kenta Kurata (Masaki Aiba) lives with his father, Taichi (Akira Terao), his mother, Keiko (Kaho Minami), and his younger sister, Nana (Kasumi...
release : 2015.04.13popularis : 1.064
Delivery of Death
Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an...
release : 2014.05.30popularis : 0.986
Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror III
Third "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.
release : 1998.10.25popularis : 2.011
Charming Men
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko...
release : 1970.06.13popularis : 1.469
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront...
release : 1990.12.22popularis : 2.06
Rebirth of Mothra
A new Mothra takes to the air and battles against Desghidorah to save all of humanity.
release : 1996.12.14popularis : 8.648
Sachiko no sachi
Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
release : 1976.12.25popularis : 4.805
Take It Easy
Coming of age film about rock musicians.
release : 1986.04.12popularis : 1.413
Chicken Race
Story of friendship between an old man who slept for 45 years and his nurse who woke him up. (Source: D-Addicts)
release : 2013.11.10popularis : 0.572
Kohaku
Yoneda Katsumi (Nishida Toshiyuki) is a police sergeant who exudes little presence.One day, Yoneda happens to come across an article on a cafe called...
release : 2017.09.15popularis : 1.711
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...
release : 1976.07.23popularis : 2.671
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
release : 1977.08.06popularis : 0.811
Greatest Gift of Life
Ryosuke lives in a small house in Toshima, Tokyo. Since his wife died, he has adjusted to living alone. He used to teach at a university and he now...
release : 2021.01.04popularis : 2.404
Jikenya Kagyou 事件屋稼業
Jotaro Fukamachi (Akira Terao) is a poor middle-aged detective who separated with wife and children. He rent the office in second floor of the...
release : 2013.05.17popularis : 1.735
Kaneko's Commissary
Kaneko, imprisoned for violence, was a man who would get angry even at his wife if she came to visit. It was the power of family - his wife, child,...
release : 2024.10.03popularis : 2.044