Susumu Terajima films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 9 films on Boxlist

Known for Ran, Nobody Knows and Fireworks.

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Starring Susumu Terajima

Ran
1985 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the...
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Nobody Knows
2004 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
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Fireworks
1997 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her home. During his visit, a suspect shoots one detective dead and leaves Nishi's partner...
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Sonatine
1993 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between...
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When Marnie Was There
2014 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
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Kubi
2023 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Steamboy
2004 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
After receiving a package from his grandfather, Ray, a young inventor who lives in England during the mid-19th century, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict related to a revolutionary advance in steam power.
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Ichi the Killer
2001 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
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Brother
2000 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang.
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