

Acting
Akira Terao
- Career
Active from 1970 to 2025, busiest in 2001 and 2013 with 3 main titles each.
- Leading roles
- 31top three billing
- Average score
71/100
- Highest rated
Ran90/100
Characters
7The characters Akira Terao played, best-known titles first.
Character images: TheTVDB
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 18 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
Rarely in their work
- Pop Culture0.3, average 2.2
- Mystery2.5, average 3.9
- Situational Comedy1.3, average 2.7
- Coming of Age1.9, average 3.0
Main genres
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Japanese Cinema 6
- Character-Driven 5
- Emotional Complexity 2
- Melancholic Tone 2
- Urban Realism 2
- Post-War Japan 2
- Psychological Thriller 2
- Family Under Siege 2
- Psychological Drama 2
- Crime 2
- Historical Drama 2
- Atmospheric 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Hisashi IgawaActorRan, Dreams, After the Rain, Madadayo, The Professor and His Beloved Equation, +1 more- SShoji UedaCinematographerRan, Dreams, After the Rain, Madadayo, The Professor and His Beloved Equation, +1 more
Hidetaka YoshiokaActorAfter the Rain, Madadayo, The Professor and His Beloved Equation, Letter from the Mountain, Half a Confession
Mieko HaradaActorRan, Dreams, After the Rain, Half a Confession
Akira KurosawaWriterRan, Dreams, After the Rain, Madadayo
Tetsuya WatariActorSeibu Keisatsu, Big City: Days of Struggle, The Earth is Born Again
Yūjirō IshiharaActorSeibu Keisatsu, Big City: Days of Struggle, The Earth is Born Again
Kasumi ArimuraActorWelcome to Our Home, Chicken Race, Welcome to Our Home
Erika SawajiriActorThe Great White Tower, Welcome to Our Home, Welcome to Our Home- HHideto AgaEditorAfter the Rain, The Professor and His Beloved Equation, Letter from the Mountain
- TTakao SaitōCinematographerRan, Dreams, Madadayo
Yoshikazu OkadaWriterGreatest Gift of Life, Chicken Race, Kohaku
Movies and TV shows
63Upcoming
1 title
TV show
2020s
7 titles · average score 70
TV show · as Yoneda Denji
as Tetta Mamiya / Tetsuta Mamiya

GoodWatch score 75as Old Dog (voice)

GoodWatch score 65as Naofumi Ogyu
TV show · as Seiji Godou
as Nomiyama Gyouji
as Ryosuke Sasai
2010s
16 titles · average score 79
TV show · as Teizo Azuma
TV show · as Sakutaro Munakata

GoodWatch score 74TV show · as Haruyuki Iiyama
TV show · as Hikuma Koichi
TV show · as Takada Soichiro
TV show · as Taichi Kurata
as Taichi Kurata
TV show

GoodWatch score 84TV show · as Ieyasu Tokugawa
as Jiro Yamazaki
as Tobita Joe
TV show · as Fukamachi Jotaro
2000s
18 titles · average score 66

GoodWatch score 71as Shigeki Nagamine
as Takayuki Sekiguchi

GoodWatch score 70as Professor
TV show · as Wakui Yukichi

GoodWatch score 55as Hirotaka Miyazu

GoodWatch score 66as Dr. Kotaro Azuma
as Soichiro Kaji

GoodWatch score 76as Takao Ueda
as Toshio Kanbe

GoodWatch score 66as Takayuki Azuma

GoodWatch score 64as Kunio

GoodWatch score 77as Ihei Misawa
1990s
8 titles · average score 64
as Matsushita

GoodWatch score 64as Kinugawa

GoodWatch score 49as Ryutaro Kuroda
TV show · as Gendayu Hosoya

GoodWatch score 57as Doctor

GoodWatch score 79as Sawamura

GoodWatch score 74as I
1980s
3 titles · average score 90
1970s
9 titles
TV show · as Matsuda Takeshi
as 观光工作人员
as Hirosawa
as Takashi Saito
as Tsuchiya
as Tamio
TV show · as Kainuma (teacher)
1960s
1 title
as Kenichi










































