Cast: Akira Terao

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Akira Terao · Jinpachi Nezu · Pîtâ

Plot A reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Martin Scorsese · Akira Terao · Mitsuko Baisho · Mieko Harada

Plot Akira Kurosawa's Dreams comprises eight dream sequences, featuring impressive special effects and beautiful scenery from Japan. Kurosawa's dream sequences are elusive, metaphoric and influenced by Japanese legends, reflecting in some...

Direction Takashi Koizumi

Cast Akira Terao · Kanako Higuchi · Shoji Arano · Hisashi Igawa

Plot Akira Kurosawa's assistant director Takashi Koizumi directs the low-key drama Letter From the Mountain, based on the novel by Keishi Nagi. Highly specialized doctor Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) finds herself seized...

Direction Takashi Koizumi

Cast Akira Terao · Yoshiko Miyazaki · Shiro Mifune · Fumi Dan

Plot Ihei Misawa and his wife Tayo, stranded by rains at a country inn, bring a great deal of happiness to the other residents of the inn by means of Ihei's...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Tatsuo Matsumura · Kyôko Kagawa · Hisashi Igawa · George Tokoro

Plot This film tells the story of professor Uehida Hyakken-sama (1889-1971), in Gotemba, around the forties. He was a university professor until an air raid, when he left to become a...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Yo Oizumi · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mei Nagano · Rosa Kato

Plot Akio Kizaki (I Oizumi), who spends his days as head of the Human Resources Department of a large company, is nervous about his wife's divorce and concerned about the relationship...

Direction Takashi Koizumi

Cast Akira Terao · Eri Fukatsu · Takanari Saito · Hidetaka Yoshioka

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

Direction Kazuaki Kiriya

Cast Yusuke Iseya · Kumiko Aso · Akira Terao · Kanako Higuchi

Plot In the future (in the end of the 21st Century), in a polluted post-apocalyptic society called Eurasia after a war against Europe, the planet is devastated by the effect of...

Direction Tomio Kuriyama

Cast Toshiyuki Nishida · Miyoko Asada · Rentarô Mikuni · Yûko Natori

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Yuki Uchida · Izumi Inamori · Norika Fujiwara · Kenta Harada

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

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Chieko Baisho · Kumiko Goto

Plot Tora-san Takes a Vacation is the forty-third entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Chieko Baisho · Akira Terao · Atomu Shimojô · Kiyoshi Atsumi

Plot The film is set in Matsuo, a remote farming village in Iwate Prefecture in northern Honshu. On a snowy March evening, a youths' association, made up of local twenty-somethings, is...

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

Cast Akira Terao · Masaki Okada · Kasumi Arimura · Takeshi Kaga

Plot Story of friendship between an old man who slept for 45 years and his nurse who woke him up.

Direction Mitsuo Wakasugi

Cast Akira Terao · Fumi Dan · Ai Mizuki · Tsunehiko Kamijô

Direction Jun Ichikawa

Cast Rena Tanaka · Yukiyoshi Ozawa · Yoichiro Saito · Cillian Joe

Plot Based on a novel by Hayashi Mariko, Tokyo Marigold is the story of a modern relationship in modern Tokyo under modern circumstances. Eriko (Rena Tanaka) has no definite plans, but...

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Yôko Tsukasa · Rentarô Mikuni · Mitsuo Hamada

Direction Katsuo Fukuzawa · Kenta Tanaka

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Kento Yamazaki · Ryoma Takeuchi · Mone Kamishiraishi

Plot Koichi Miyazawa (Koji Yakusho) runs a small, but longstanding company which makes tabi (traditional Japanese socks). He is the CEO of the fourth generation company with about 20 employees. Due...

Direction Takahisa Zeze

Cast Kenta Kiritani · Keiko Kitagawa · Tôri Matsuzaka · Kento Nakajima

Plot Hatao Yamamoto was a Japanese prisoner of war detained in a post second World War Siberian gulag. He believed that he would be able to reunite with his wife and...

Direction Shoichi Mashiko

Cast Yutaka Takenouchi · Akira Terao · Shirô Itô · Miki Sakai

Plot A middle school aged girl is dragged into a car while her screams fades away into the darkness of the night. The next day, the young girl's body is discovered...

Direction Kiyoshi Sasabe

Cast Akira Terao · Mieko Harada · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Mayu Tsuruta

Plot Soichiro Kaji killed his wife who suffers from Parkinson's disease, he surrenders to police two days later. Tops of the police wish an early settlement of the affair by fair...