Akira Terao

Akira Terao

Nascimento : 1947-05-18, Kanagawa, Japan

História

Akira Terao (寺尾 聰, Terao Akira, born May 18, 1947) is Japanese musician and movie actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akira Terao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Akira Terao

Filmes

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 divorce with his wife, and his relationship with his college-student daughter isn’t exactly smooth sailing. One day, he decides to drop in to Tokyo’s old-timey district to visit his mother Fukue. However, things seem a little off. His mother used to be always working with an apron on, but now she’s covered in stylish clothes, looking livelier than ever, and even in love! Akio becomes perplexed, feeling out of place in his own mother’s home, but after encountering kind, warm—and almost nosey—neighbors and a side of his mother he’d never seen before, Akio gradually starts to discover something he had lost sight of.
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 his wife and his fellows, Yamamoto Hatao never gave up hoping that he'd return home despite hopeless circumstances.
Mugonkan
Nomiyama Gyouji
A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, featuring artworks by students before they were sent to fight in WWII.
Greatest Gift of Life
笹井亮介
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 works as a translator. Meanwhile, Ryosuke has one child, Yuriko. She is married to Shigeyuki, who works as a teacher. Yuriko and Shigeyuki live in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture. One day, Yuriko visits her father Ryosuke without advance notice. Ryosuke is surprised by her sudden visit. Yuriko doesn't give any reason for the visit. Ryosuke only learns that Yuriko isn't sure how long she will stay. They haven't talked as father and daughter in a long time. They begin to live together in a nervous, but warm atmosphere.
Kohaku
Arai Toshio
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 Kohaku in a booklet at his regular cafe. Then he abruptly takes leave and heads to Kohaku which is located in Uozu, Toyama Prefecture by bullet train. For some reason, he has documents on an unsolved arson cum murder case which took place in Kichijoji 25 years ago.The owner of Kohaku is Arai Toshio (Terao Akira) who has seemingly sad eyes. They spend time together with his only regular customer, Hirai Sachiko (Suzuki Kyoka), a married woman who works at the port’s fisheries cooperative. Their interactions gradually start to deepen even as they sense the darkness in each other. What is the fate that awaits them?
Welcome to Our Home
Taichi Kurata
Kenta Kurata (Masaki Aiba) lives with his father, Taichi (Akira Terao), his mother, Keiko (Kaho Minami), and his younger sister, Nana (Kasumi Arimura) in an isolated home in the suburbs. He works as an unpopular commercial designer. Kenta Kurata possesses a timid personality, which he picked up from his father. Kenta doesn't like his father. One day, while waiting for the train, Kenta warns a man who pushed a woman and cut in line. Kenta is surprised that he spoke out with his normally timid personality. After that incident, Kenta's family home is targeted by an unknown person with flowers from their garden being pulled out and the seat of a bicycle being torn. Also, Kenta's younger sister Nana is stalked by her ex-boyfriend. Kenta and his family try to find out who is responsible.
Delivery of Death
Jiro Yamazaki
Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an ex-bureaucrat and was recently released from prison. 7 years ago, Shohei was arrested for embezzling 1 billion yen. The investigation seven years ago was able to track down 700 million yen but unable to locate the remaining 300 million yen. Now, the chief editor is sure Shohei will go to wherever the remaining 300 million yen is hidden.
Chicken Race
Tobita Joe
Story of friendship between an old man who slept for 45 years and his nurse who woke him up. (Source: D-Addicts)
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 building owned by beautiful dentist Reiko Sugimoto (Eriko Sato).
The Eternal Fountain
Akio Yamauchi
The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji Kuramoto who confesses to murdering his wife. While following Kuramoto's action in Yamanaka and being sure of his innocence, Yamauchi remembers his wife who passed away 12 years earlier.
Hi to Shio
熊代繁
The Hovering Blade
Shigeki Nagamine
A widower's teenage daughter is murdered. A mysterious phone call tells him who the killers are and he plots revenge.
Awakening
Takayuki Sekiguchi
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 her husband had lived a double life. Struggling between her anger and the chance to begin a new chapter for herself, she finds her life moving into unchartered waters as she faces her 60th birthday.
The Professor and His Beloved Equation
Professor
This is the story between single mother housekeeper and mathematics professor,who has a brain damage.
Operação Sol Nascente
Matsuda
O governador de Tóquio foi morto durante sua campanha para reeleição. O ex-agente da CIA Travis Hunter trabalha em conjunto com o agente novato no FBI Sean Mack para encontrar os responsáveis pelo crime. Travis foi criado no Japão, é um grande conhecedor do submundo das ruas e domina artes marciais. Durante as investigações, a dupla descobre que uma guerra de poder dentro da Yakuza pode estar relacionada ao assassinato do político.
Aegis
Hirotaka Miyazu
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 sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.
Casshern - Reencarnado do Inferno
Dr. Kotaro Azuma
É quase final do século XXI. Decorridos cinqüenta anos de uma guerra devastadora entre a Europa e a Federação do Leste, esta última emergiu vitoriosa e foi formada uma nova federação, que recebeu o nome de Eurásia. Já não é mais possível se viver na glória da paz já que o planeta é varrido pelos efeitos das armas nucleares, químicas e biológicas, e toda a raça humana é vítima de conflitos que já duram meio século. Porém, um cientista genético chamado Dr. Azuma consegue trazer uma nova esperança na forma do que ele chama de "neo-célula", e que tem o poder de rejuvenescer partes do corpo humano sem causar risco de rejeição. Entretanto, a natureza interfere no caminho da ciência para criar uma nova ameaça, que obriga toda a humanidade a enfrentar a última guerra contra sua própria extinção.
Half a Confession
Soichiro Kaji
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into police headquarters and confesses to the murder of his wife. We learn that the victim had prematurely developed Alzheimer's after the tragic death of their son, and in her suffering, had asked to die. The police chiefs would be far more content to take him at his word if it were not for a conspicuous hole in his story: 48-hour gap between the alleged murder and his confession. Fearing a public relations nightmare, they are eager to bury the incident and keep the press in the dark.
Letter from the Mountain
Takao Ueda
As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao's ancestral home. They visit a thatched cottage that serves as a memorial shrine (amidado) for the village dead and chat with the attendant, the spry 96-year-old Oume (Tanie Kitabayashi). Together they admire the view -- from an inspiring distance. Oume, it turns out, is a kind of sage, whose thoughts and observations are a popular feature in a column in a local newsletter. Her amanuensis is a mute, sweetly smiling young woman named Sayuri (Manami Konishi), who is as devoted to Oume as Oume is to the souls of her beloved dead.
Tokyo Marigold
Kunio
Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for his girlfriend to return from overseas, she requests to enter into a relationship with him for just one year.
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Takayuki Azuma
A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and their well-being come under special government protection.
Darkness in the Light
Toshio Kanbe
A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer of 1994 to find himself the prime suspect in the biggest mass-murder case of the decade.
Depois da Chuva
Ihei Misawa
Misawa é um samurai que não consegue encontrar emprego, mas que é um gênio da arte de lutar. Ao lado de sua mulher, ele é obrigado a parar em uma pequena hospedaria por causa de uma enchente. Vendo as péssimas condições do local, ele parte em busca de alimento para o povo, logo despertando a desconfiança de sua mulher, que não gosta que ele lute por dinheiro. Mesmo sem a conduta real de um samurai, é contratado para treinar a tropas do feudo local, despertando a inveja dos outros lutadores. Filmado após a morte de Akira Kurosawa, pelo seu fiel assistente de direção Takashi Koizumi. Um dos últimos roteiros do mestre oriental.
Cat's Eye
Ryutaro Kuroda
Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.
Lost Paradise
Kinugawa
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. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.
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 family, right up to the final battle on the Tenryu River to avenge Ishimatsu Mori.
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.
Madadayo
Sawamura
Considerado um dos melhores diretores de todos os tempos, Akira Kurosawa encerra suas realizações cinematográficas com esta obra-prima perfeita, Madadayo. O filme segue as duas últimas décadas de Hyakken Uchida, um escritor e professor que se aposenta nos anos da guerra, no início dos anos 40. Seus alunos o veneram e todos os anos fazem um ritual de aniversário chamado “Mahda-kai? (Está pronto?)” para que Uchida beba um grande copo de cerveja e responda “Madadayo! (Ainda não!)”, reconhecendo que a morte pode estar próxima, mas que a vida continua. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Kazuo
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 him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother befriends Tora-san and together they travel to Oita to meet them, with Tora-san quickly falling for her en route.
Realização de 'Sonhos'
Self
Este documentário de 150 minutos, dirigido por Nobuhiko Ôbayashi no set de Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, apresenta cenas dos bastidores e entrevistas com elenco e equipe.
Sonhos
I
Produção japonesa que apresenta uma série de curtas-metragens do diretor Akira Kurosawa. Um dos segmentos mostra um menino espionando a cerimônia de um casamento de raposas, enquanto que em outra história, um jovem é testemunha de um momento mágico no jardim. Muitos dos filmes estão interligados através de um tema ambiental.
Take It Easy
Coming of age film about rock musicians.
Ran
Taro Takatora Ichimonji
No Japão medieval, um velho senhor da guerra se aposenta, entregando seu império a seus três filhos. No entanto, ele subestima amplamente como o novo poder irá corrompê-los. O senhor de guerra japonês Hidetori Ichimonji decide que chegou o momento de se aposentar e dividir seu feudo entre seus três filhos. Seus filhos mai velho e do meio, Taro e Jiro, concordam com sua decisão e prometem apoiá-lo nos dias restantes de aposentadoria. O filho mais novo, Saburo, discorda de todos eles argumentando que há pouca probabilidade dos três irmãos permanecerem unidos. Insultado pela impaciência de seu filho caçula, o senhor da guerra o expulsa. Quando o senhor da guerra começa sua aposentadoria, ele rapidamente percebe que seus dois filhos mais velhos são egoístas e não têm intenção de cumprir suas promessas. Isso leva à guerra e só o banido Saburo pode salvá-lo.
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.
Sachiko no sachi
Hirosawa
Based on the manga of the same name by Kazuo Kamimura.
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 family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
The Village
Takashi Saito
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, being that they are farmers and always busy and not rich, question the wisdom and feasibility of such an idea. A spokesperson for the acting troupe Ms. Kono lays out the whole thing and they must decide. You get little slices of rural life in Japan far, at least in sentiment, from Tokyo. The best thing about this film is that it has heart. The acting is good, but it is really about the simple storyline of outing on a show. Films rarely get made with such simplistic plots these days. Enjoy this little slice of what city people call “the simple life”.
Batalha no Abismo
Kenichi
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.