Akira Terao Movies

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûsuke Iseya

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Steven Seagal

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Akira Terao

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masanobu Ando

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji...

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Cast: Akira Terao

A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rena Tanaka

A widower's teenage daughter is murdered. A mysterious phone call tells him who the killers are and he plots revenge.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Osamu Mukai

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Cast: Akira Terao

Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Fubuki

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rika Miura

Coming of age film about rock musicians.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Kikkawa

Story of friendship between an old man who slept for 45 years and his nurse who woke him up. (Source: D-Addicts)

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Cast: Masaki Okada

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satomi Ishihara

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Terao

This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Akira Kurosawa

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuki Uchida

The private eye of Shinjuku Yokubo Tantei is a lone wolf, lush, and loser but has kept his integrity in a dirty, dangerous world.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Terao

A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family, his confrontation with Katsuzo Kurokoma's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Kazunari Ninomiya

A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

Kenta Kurata (Masaki Aiba) lives with his father, Taichi (Akira Terao), his mother, Keiko (Kaho Minami), and his younger sister, Nana (Kasumi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaki Aiba

One day, Tomonaga Takashi, a medical representative of pharmaceutical company Tenei Seiyaku, is suddenly suspected of molesting inside a train by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsushi Ito

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Yo Oizumi

Meet Rudger, the boy created by the imagination of a girl who lost love. They spend precious time together, running through a world of breathtaking...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kokoro Terada

Third "The Story of Terror" film by Junji Inagawa.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Junji Inagawa

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi