Akira Terao - Movie Mafia

Movies

Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

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Casshern

Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have ta...

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Into the Sun

After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherto...

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Dreams

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a...

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Madadayo

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by ...

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After the Rain

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

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Lost Paradise

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and find...

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The Village

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a m...

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The Crow In Broad Daylight

One day, Tomonaga Takashi, a medical representative of pharmaceutical company Tenei Seiyaku, is sudd...

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Making of 'Dreams'

This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, fe...

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Cat's Eye

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order t...

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The Professor and His Beloved Equation

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

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Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius

A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hid...

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Letter from the Mountain

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural f...

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Mom, Is That You?!

Akio, an HR worker, visits his transformed mother Fukue in Tokyo. Baffled by her new lively self, he...

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The Sands of Kurobe

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...

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Aegis

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to...

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The Eternal Fountain

The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes...

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Darkness in the Light

A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagan...

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Tokyo Marigold

Eriko – lonely, aimless and self-absorbed – falls for Tamura. Despite knowing that he is waiting for...

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The Imaginary

Amanda and her imaginary friend Rudger go on thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger find...

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The Hungry Shinjuku Detective

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

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History of Jirocho Shimizu

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

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The Hovering Blade

Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against ...

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Awakening

After the unexpected death of her husband a new life begins for Toshiko. 30 years of a happy marriag...

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Half a Confession

Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a ta...

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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 wi...

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Mugonkan

A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum...

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Welcome to Our Home

Kenta Kurata (Masaki Aiba) lives with his father, Taichi (Akira Terao), his mother, Keiko (Kaho Mina...

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Delivery of Death

Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells ...

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Hi to Shio

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Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror III

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

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Charming Men

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tun...

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Tora-san Takes a Vacation

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another ...

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Rebirth of Mothra

A new Mothra takes to the air and battles against Desghidorah to save all of humanity....

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Sachiko no sachi

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

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Take It Easy

Coming of age film about rock musicians....

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Chicken Race

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

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Kohaku

Yoneda Katsumi (Nishida Toshiyuki) is a police sergeant who exudes little presence.One day, Yoneda h...

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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, Mits...

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Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's ...

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Greatest Gift of Life

Ryosuke lives in a small house in Toshima, Tokyo. Since his wife died, he has adjusted to living alo...

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Jikenya Kagyou 事件屋稼業

Jotaro Fukamachi (Akira Terao) is a poor middle-aged detective who separated with wife and children....

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Kaneko's Commissary

Kaneko, imprisoned for violence, was a man who would get angry even at his wife if she came to visit...

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Dangerous Women

Shuhei, a mystery writer, is invited to a dinner party at a country house. The guests include Tanase...

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The Earth is Born Again

A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work ...

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The Politicians

Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal m...

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Our Eternal Song

Based on the true story of this miracle that delivered smiles and hope to the world, the love and co...

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球形の荒野

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Free and Easy 7

Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later...

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