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name: "Minori Terada"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 November 1942"
died: "14 March 2024"
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updated: "2026-09-17T06:23:24.608734+00:00"
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# Minori Terada

Actor. Born 7 November 1942 in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. Died 14 March 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 November 1942, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan
- **Died:** 14 March 2024
- **Also known as:** 寺田農, מינורי טראדה, Terada Nori
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11458033, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855385/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65511

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- **HBO Max:** [*Castle in the Sky*](https://film.one/film/castle-in-the-sky.md) (82)

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## Biography

Minori Terada (寺田農) was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He began his career in 1961 and remained active for over six decades until his death. He was born on 7 November 1942 in Itabashi, Tokyo, and died on 14 March 2024.

Terada was known for villainous roles in film and television, including in *Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo* (1970), *Sailor Suit and Machine Gun* (1981), *Typhoon Club* (1985) and various *Kamen Rider* series. He voiced Colonel Muska in Hayao Miyazaki’s *Castle in the Sky* (1986). He won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor for his lead role in *The Human Bullet* (1968) and worked frequently as a narrator.

*Sources: ja.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, gigazine.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Castle in the Sky* (1986), Fi1m 82, as Muska (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/castle-in-the-sky.md)

## Also known for

- *Maborosi* (1995), Detective
- *Sunny* (2024), Himé's Father
- *Howling Village* (2020), Yamanobe
- *Kamen Rider* (1971), Ryubee Sonozaki
- *Liverleaf* (2018), Michio Nozaki
- *Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo* (1970)
- *Typhoon Club* (1985), Ken's Father
- *Kamen Rider Black Sun* (2022), Secretary-General

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