Teruyuki KagawaFilmography

Tokyo Sonata

Actors: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Yu Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki, Haruka Igawa

Synopsis: A typical household secretly teeters on the verge of collapse in this stark drama from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Businessman Ryuhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa) is the principal breadwinner of a seemingly happy family in Tokyo, with Ryuhei looking after his teenage sons, Takashi (Yu Koyanagi) and Read More

Tokyo!

Actors: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: Directors Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-ho, and Leos Carax each direct a segment of this triptych feature about life in 21st century Tokyo. The saga begins with Gondry's segment, entitled "Interior Design," about a young couple who moves in with an old friend while attempting to establish themselves in Read More

20th Century Boys

Actors: Toshiaki Karasawa, Arata, Etsushi Toyokawa, Takako Tokiwa, Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis: A burned-out rocker discovers his doom-struck adolescent fantasies are coming true in this futuristic thriller from Japan. Ever since his career as a musician crashed and burned, Kenji (Toshiaki Karasawa) has been making a living working at a quick-stop store and living with his family. One day Read More

Sukiyaki Western Django

Actors: Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Yusuke Iseya, Masanobu Ando, Takaaki Ishibashi

Synopsis: Maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike re-teams with longtime writing partner Masa Nakamura (Andromedia, The Bird People of China) for this Western inspired by Sergio Corbucci's violent 1966 classic Django. It's been hundreds of years since the Battle of Dannoura, yet the Genji and Heiki clans Read More

Hero

Actors: Takuya Kimura, Takako Matsu, Nene Otsuka, Hiroshi Abe, Fumiyo Kohinata

Synopsis: Bayside Shakedown producer Chihiro Kameyama returns with this crowd-pleasing comedy drama spawned by the hit television series detailing a renegade district attorney's efforts to target political corruption in the bustling metropolis of Tokyo. Kohei Kuryu (popular singer Takuya Kimura) is a Read More

Tales From Earthsea

Actors: Junichi Okada, Aoi Teshima, Yuko Tanaka, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jun Fubuki

Synopsis: Animator Goro Miyazaki, son of the infamous Hayao Miyazaki ("The Walt Disney of Japan,") makes his directorial debut with the animated feature Tales from Earthsea (aka Gedo Senki). Miyazaki loosely adapted the work from the third and fourth volumes in bestselling sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin's Read More

Yureru

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jô Odagiri, Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis: A murder investigation reveals a deep-rooted sibling rivalry in director Miwa Nishikawa's brooding family drama. On the one-year anniversary of his mother's death, Tokyo art and fashion photographer Takeru (Joe Odagiri) returns to his small hometown in order to pay his respects. But all is not Read More

Hana

Actors: Junichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta, Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis: Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community. The year is 1702, and young Read More

Sea Without Exit

Actors: Juri Ueno, Shinosuke Ichikawa, Shun Shioya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis: Director/screenwriter Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai) teams with emerging filmmaking talent Kyoshi Sasabe (Half a Confession) for this screen adaptation of author Hideo Yokoyama's somber novel. Koji Namiki is a young pitcher who has shown great promise on the diamond by winning the National Read More

Memories of Tomorrow

Actors: Ken Watanabe, Kanako Higuchi, Kenji Sakaguchi, Kazue Fukiishi, Mitsuhiro Oikawa

Synopsis: After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family in director Yukihiko Tstusumi's poignant family drama. Saeki (Ken Watanabe) is about to launch what promises to be the most successful advertising Read More

Taga tameni

Bashing

Actors: Fusako Urabe, Ryuzo Tanaka, Takayuki Kato, Kikujiro Honda, Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis: Masahiro Kobayashi draws on true life tragedy to craft this heart wrenching drama about a Japanese aid worker who finds that being kidnapped in war-torn Iraq was only the beginning of her lifelong nightmare. A compassionate woman who longed to make a difference by helping the people of Iraq, Yuko Read More

Milkwoman

Actors: Yuko Tanaka, Ittoku Kishibe, Akiko Nishina, Misako Watanabe, Koichi Ueda

Devils on the Doorstep

Actors: Jiang Wen, Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis: Renowned actor Jiang Wen directs this sweeping look at a small Chinese village located near the Great Wall during the closing days of WWII. As Japanese soldiers march up and down the village's main thoroughfare, Ma Dasan (Wen) is making love with his widowed lover Yu'er (Jiang Hongbo). Suddenly Read More

Kimusho No Naka

Actors: Yozaburo Ito, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yosuke Kubozuka, Yutaka Matsushige, Toshifumi Muramatsu

Synopsis: Yoichi Sai's prison film Doing Time stars Tsutomu Yamazaki as Hanawa, a man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of Hanawa's cellmates to abandon their individuality. Hanawa lasts longer than the others, but a stint in Read More

KT

Actors: Koichi Sato, Kim Kab-soo, Kim Byong-se, Yoshio Harada, Choi Il-hwa

Synopsis: Junji Sakamoto directs this taut spy thriller about the real-life abduction of Kim Dae Jung -- who would later be elected president of South Korea -- from a Tokyo hotel in 1973. Major Tomita (Koichi Sato) is a Japanese intelligence officer specializing in Korean matters. While tailing a North Read More

The Bleep Brothers

Actors: Kentaro Seagal, Zenjiro, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ittoku Kishibe, Yuko Tanaka

Synopsis: Two brothers learn about the ups and downs of talking dirty and influencing people in this offbeat comedy from Japan. Ikuo (Zenjiro) and his good-looking but dim-witted brother Tatsuo (Kentaro Seagal) were raised by their parents to take over the family business, which happens to be a funeral Read More

Aruku-Hito

Actors: Ken Ogata, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yasufumi Hayashi

Synopsis: An aging man in a dying town tries to sort out the loose ends of his life, with tragic results, in this drama. Nobuo (Ken Ogata) is an elderly man living in a remote village on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, known for its punishing winters. While the community was once prosperous thanks to the Read More

Boy's Choir

Actors: Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryoko Takizawa, Ken Mitsuishi

Synopsis: Former assistant director to Sogo Ishii, Akira Ogata makes his debut with this complex coming of age drama about a pair of orphans obsessed with choir singing. Set during the political tumult of the 1970s, the film focuses on Michio (Atsushi Ito), a stuttering, socially-inept 15-year-old. Michio's Read More

Suri

Actors: Jun Fubuki, Kirina Mano, Renji Ishibashi

Synopsis: Veteran director Kazuo Kuroki's quirky drama about a trinity of small-time crooks is set in Tokyo, where Kaido, a professional pickpocket advanced in years and in stages of alcoholism, works the subways with his foster daughter Rei. While Rei allows prospective suckers to grope her, Kaido relieves Read More

Hebi no Michi

Actors: Sho Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis: When oddball auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa received an eccentric offer to make two films in two weeks, on a low budget and using the same cast, the result was the cinematic equivalent of fraternal twins. Though both Spider's Gaze and Serpent's Path are gangster films about the desire for revenge, and Read More

The Mystery of Rampo

Actors: Masahiro Motoki, Naoto Takenaka, Michiko Hada, Teruyuki Kagawa, Mikijiro Hira

Synopsis: Edogawa Rampo -- a pen name that is also a homonym in Japanese for Edgar Allen Poe -- amassed a major cult following after writing a series of short stories that masterly meld the erotic and the grotesque. Unlike previous films about of his work -- such as Noboru Tanaka's masterful Stroller in the Attic Read More