Akira Terao
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: May 18, 1947
Place of Birth: Kanagawa, Japan
Known For
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.
CHANGE
CHANGE is a Japanese television drama which aired on Fuji TV starting May 12, 2008.
Brass Dreams
Hikuma Koichi was a saxophone player, but he suffers from the after-effects of an accident. Due to that, he turned his back on music. Hikuma Koichi finds hope in the high school brass band. The band consists of problem students. Koichi struggles to instruct the brass band and to give them hope.
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.
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.
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 becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game with both the perpetrators and the police.
Ran
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
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 interviews with cast and crew.
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 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.
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 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.
Filmography
as Tetsuta Mamiya
as Old Dog (voice)
as Naofumi Ogyu
as Seiji Godou
as Nomiyama Gyouji
as Ryosuke Sasai
as Teizo Azuma
as Sakutaro Munakata
as Gomi Jinsuke
as Haruyuki Iiyama
as Arai Toshio
as Takada Soichiro
as Hikuma Koichi
as Taichi Kurata
as Taichi Kurata
as Jiro Yamazaki
as Tobita Joe
as Fukamachi Jotaro
as 熊代繁
as Shigeki Nagamine
as Shoichi Kanbayashi
as Takayuki Sekiguchi
as Professor
as Matsuda
as Hirotaka Miyazu
as Wakui Yukichi
as Dr. Kotaro Azuma
as Soichiro Kaji
as Keisaku Mita
as Suenaga Takuro
as Takao Ueda
as Kunio
as Takayuki Azuma
as Toshio Kanbe
as Ihei Misawa
as Matsushita
as Ryutaro Kuroda
as Gendayu Hosoya
as Kinugawa
as Doctor
as Sawamura
as Kazuo
as Self
as I
as Taro Takatora Ichimonji
as Hideo Tanase
as Nobuyuki Doi
as Hirosawa
as Takashi Saito
as Tsuchiya
as Kainuma (teacher)
as Tamio
as Kenichi