Cast: Susumu Terajima
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Susumu Terajima. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 89
Nobody Knows
2004 · Movie · 141 min. · Japan
Direction Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast Yûya Yagira · Ayu Kitaura · Hiei Kimura · Momoko Shimizu
Synopsis In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
7.6
7K votes
7.6
7K votes
Even If You Walk and Walk (Still Walking)
2008 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan
Direction Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast Hiroshi Abe · Yui Natsukawa · You · Kazuya Takahashi
Synopsis A family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own...
7.3
4K votes
7.3
4K votes
Direction Takeshi Kitano
Cast Takeshi Kitano · Kayoko Kishimoto · Tetsu Watanabe · Ren Osugi
Synopsis Nishi is a cop whose wife is slowly dying of Leukemia. One of his partners gets shot on the job and is confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life and becomes suicidal. Nishi, feeling guilt over...
7.3
11K votes
7.3
11K votes
After Life
1998 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan
Direction Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast Arata Iura · Erika Oda · Susumu Terajima · Takashi Naitô
Synopsis After people die, they spend a week with counselors, also dead, who help them pick one memory, the only memory they can take to eternity. They describe the memory to the staff who work with a crew to film it...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
The Taste of Tea
2004 · Movie · 143 min. · Japan
Direction Katsuhito Ishii
Cast Maya Banno · Takahiro Sato · Tadanobu Asano · Satomi Tezuka
Synopsis A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project...
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Direction Takeshi Kitano
Cast Takeshi Kitano · Omar Epps · Claude Maki · Masaya Kato
Synopsis A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take...
7.0
9K votes
7.0
9K votes
Achilles and the Tortoise
2008 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Takeshi Kitano
Cast Takeshi Kitano · Kanako Higuchi · Yûrei Yanagi · Kumiko Aso
Synopsis Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Kids Return
1996 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan
Direction Takeshi Kitano
Cast Masanobu Ando · Ken Kaneko · Leo Morimoto · Hatsuo Yamatani
Synopsis Two school-age chums, Shinji and Masaru, spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates, playing pranks, and sneaking to the movies. They decide to drop out and gain their fortunes in the outside world. Shinji becomes a small-time boxer,...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Direction Takeshi Kitano
Cast Takeshi Kitano · Aya Kokumai · Tetsu Watanabe · Susumu Terajima
Synopsis Several yakuza from Tokyo are sent to Okinawa to help end a gang war. The war escalates and the Tokyo drifters decide to lay low at the beach.
6.9
5K votes
6.9
5K votes
All Around Us
2008 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan
Direction Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Cast Tae Kimura · Lily Franky · Mitsuko Baisho · Susumu Terajima
Synopsis At work, Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, silently observes crimes and scandals of the 1990s and the decline of Japanese values. At home in joys of marriage, he quietly observes his wife’s first pregnancy. When their child dies, the couple...
6.8
58 votes
6.8
58 votes
Direction SABU
Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Yasuko Matsuyuki · Masanobu Ando · Nanako Ôkôchi
Synopsis A salaryman wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before - attending a funeral, dating but annoying his girlfriend, getting drunk in a pub and getting...
6.8
375 votes
6.8
375 votes
Last of the Wolves
2021 · Movie · 149 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuya Shiraishi
Cast Sho Aoyanagi · Miwako Kake · Rino Katase · Katsuya Maiguma
Synopsis After, Shogo Ogami's death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo's plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one...
6.8
28 votes
6.8
28 votes
A Scene at the Sea
1991 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan
Direction Takeshi Kitano
Cast Claude Maki · Hiroko Oshima · Sabu Kawahara · Toshizo Fujiwara
Synopsis The lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding.
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Direction SABU
Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Kou Shibasaki · Ren Osugi · Masanobu Ando
Synopsis In Drive, Tsutsumi is a salaryman, Asakura, who is carjacked and kidnapped by three bank robbers and ordered to pursue a fourth man, who has escaped with the loot and the getaway car.Trouble is, Asakura has spent his whole life...
6.6
35 votes
6.6
35 votes
Violent Cop
1989 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan
Direction Takeshi Kitano
Cast Takeshi Kitano · Maiko Kawakami · Makoto Ashikawa · Sei Hiraizumi
Synopsis Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results. While investigating a series of drug-related homicides, Azuma discovers that his friend and colleague, Iwaki, is supplying drugs from within the police...
6.5
4K votes
6.5
4K votes
Blessing Bell
2002 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan
Direction SABU
Cast Susumu Terajima · Naomi Nishida · Itsuji Itao · Seijun Suzuki
Synopsis After losing his job at the factory Igarashi aimlessly wanders through Tokyo where he encounters various people and gains insight into their lives.
6.5
31 votes
6.5
31 votes
A Snake of June
2002 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Asuka Kurosawa · Yuji Kotari · Shinya Tsukamoto · Mansaku Fuwa
Synopsis Rinko Tatsumi is a quiet, reserved woman in her mid-thirties. She works as a capable and respected phone counselor at an emergency phone line at the county mental health center. Her husband Shigehiko is an important businessman. They have no...
6.5
359 votes
6.5
359 votes
Unlucky Monkey
1998 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan
Direction SABU
Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Hiroshi Shimizu · Ikko Suzuki · Kimika Yoshino
Synopsis Nishida and Yamazaki are nervous as they are about to rob a bank when another thief, dressed identically to them, comes running out with the loot. In the blink of an eye, Nishida and the robber are felled by a...
6.4
89 votes
6.4
89 votes
Direction Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast Arata Iura · Yusuke Iseya · Susumu Terajima · Seminosuke Murasugi
Synopsis Members of a cult, modeled on Aum Shinrikyo, sabotage a city's water supply, then commit mass suicide near the shores of a lake. Family members (the credited cast, minus Asano) of the perpetrators meet at the lake to observe the...
6.4
238 votes
6.4
238 votes
Direction Hirokazu Koreeda
Cast Doona Bae · Arata Iura · Itsuji Itao · Jô Odagiri
Synopsis A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.
6.3
4K votes
6.3
4K votes