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name: "Akira Terao"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/akira-terao"
fi1m_id: "akira-terao"
imdb_id: "nm0855417"
tmdb_id: 70132
wikidata_id: "Q633278"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 May 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:25:31.176387+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Akira Terao

## Identity

Akira Terao

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/akira-terao
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** akira-terao
- **IMDb ID:** nm0855417
- **TMDB ID:** 70132
- **Wikidata ID:** Q633278
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Terao, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633278, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855417/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70132

Actor. Born 18 May 1947 in Kanagawa, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 May 1947, Kanagawa, Japan
- **Also known as:** 寺尾聰, Акира Тэрао, 寺尾聪
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Terao, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633278, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855417/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70132

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Ran*](https://film.one/film/ran.md) (92)

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## Biography

Akira Terao (寺尾聰) is a Japanese actor and musician. Born on 18 May 1947 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, he is the son of actor and director Jūkichi Uno. He graduated from Bunka Gakuin and began his career as a musician in the mid-1960s before debuting as an actor in Kei Kumai’s *The Sands of Kurobe* (1968).

Terao is best known for his roles in Akira Kurosawa’s *Ran* (1985), in which he played Taro Takatora Ichimonji, and *Dreams* (1990). Other notable film appearances include *Madadayo* (1993), *After the Rain* (1999) and *Casshern* (2004). As a singer, he achieved major success with the 1981 hit “Ruby no Yubiwa”. He is the only male actor to have received both the Japan Record Award and the Japan Academy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ran* (1985), Fi1m 92, as Taro Takatora Ichimonji — [page](https://film.one/film/ran.md)

## Complete filmography (73)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *One in a Million: Tax Squad* (2026), series, as Yoneda Denji
- *Our Eternal Song* (2025), as Tetsuta Mamiya, Tetta Mamiya
- *Kaneko's Commissary* (2025), Actor
- *The Imaginary* (2023), as Old Dog (voice)
- *Mom, Is That You?!* (2023), as Naofumi Ogyu
- *Last Man: The Blind Profiler* (2023), series, as Seiji Godou
- *Fragments of the Last Will* (2022), Actor
- *Mugonkan* (2022), as Nomiyama Gyouji
- *Greatest Gift of Life* (2021), as Ryosuke Sasai
- *The Great White Tower* (2019), series, as Teizo Azuma
- *Special Investigation Nine* (2018), series, as Sakutaro Munakata
- *The Crow In Broad Daylight* (2018), as Gomi Jinsuke
- *Rikuoh* (2017), series, as Haruyuki Iiyama
- *Kohaku* (2017), as Arai Toshio
- *Cain and Abel* (2016), series, as Takada Soichiro
- *Brass Dreams* (2016), series, as Hikuma Koichi
- *Welcome to Our Home* (2015), series, as Taichi Kurata
- *Welcome to Our Home* (2015), as Taichi Kurata
- *The World Heritage* (2014), series, Actor
- *Delivery of Death* (2014), as Jiro Yamazaki
- *球形の荒野* (2014), Actor
- *Strategist KANBE* (2014), series, as Ieyasu Tokugawa
- *Chicken Race* (2013), as Tobita Joe
- *Jikenya Kagyou* (2013), series, as Fukamachi Jotaro
- *Jikenya Kagyou 事件屋稼業* (2013), Actor
- *留守宅の事件* (2013), series, Actor
- *The Eternal Fountain* (2012), as Akio Yamauchi
- *Hi to Shio* (2009), as 熊代繁
- *The Hovering Blade* (2009), as Shigeki Nagamine
- *CHANGE* (2008), series, as Shoichi Kanbayashi
- *Keiji no Genba* (2008), series, Actor
- *Awakening* (2007), as Takayuki Sekiguchi
- *The Professor and His Beloved Equation* (2006), as Professor
- *Into the Sun* (2005), as Matsuda
- *Aegis* (2005), as Hirotaka Miyazu
- *Affectionate Time* (2005), series, as Wakui Yukichi
- *Casshern* (2004), as Dr. Kotaro Azuma
- *Half a Confession* (2004), as Soichiro Kaji
- *Love Letters - Men We Have Loved* (2003), series, as Keisaku Mita
- *Kokoro* (2003), series, as Suenaga Takuro
- *Letter from the Mountain* (2002), as Takao Ueda
- *Tokyo Marigold* (2001), as Kunio
- *Darkness in the Light* (2001), as Toshio Kanbe
- *Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius* (2001), as Takayuki Azuma
- *After the Rain* (2000), as Ihei Misawa
- *Junji Inagawa's the Story of Terror III* (1998), as Matsushita
- *Cat's Eye* (1997), as Ryutaro Kuroda
- *The Story of Bodyguard Shuhei Fujisawa* (1997), series, as Gendayu Hosoya
- *Lost Paradise* (1997), as Kinugawa
- *Rebirth of Mothra* (1996), as Doctor
- *History of Jirocho Shimizu* (1995), Actor
- *Free and Easy 7* (1994), Actor
- *The Hungry Shinjuku Detective* (1994), Actor
- *Madadayo* (1993), as Sawamura
- *Tora-san Takes a Vacation* (1990), as 一男
- *Dreams* (1990), as I
- *Rock Requiem* (1988), Actor
- *Star Ranch* (1987), Actor
- *Take It Easy* (1986), Actor
- *Ran* (1985), as Taro Takatora Ichimonji — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/ran.md)
- *Dangerous Women* (1985), as Hideo Tanase
- *The Politicians* (1983), as Nobuyuki Doi
- *Seibu Keisatsu* (1979), series, as Matsuda Takeshi
- *Tora-san Meets His Lordship* (1977), Actor
- *Sachiko no sachi* (1976), as Hirosawa
- *Big City: Days of Struggle* (1976), series, Actor
- *Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset* (1976), Actor
- *The Village* (1975), as Takashi Saito
- *The Earth is Born Again* (1971), as Tsuchiya
- *おくさまは18歳* (1970), series, as Kainuma (teacher)
- *Charming Men* (1970), as Tamio
- *The Sands of Kurobe* (1968), as Kenichi
- *刑事部屋～六本木おかしな捜査班*, series, Actor

## Awards

### Other awards — 4 won

- Medal with Purple Ribbon 2008: Medal with Purple Ribbon (won)
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor 2005: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor (won)
- Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role 2001: Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (won)
- 23rd Japan Record Awards 1981: 23rd Japan Record Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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