Shinobu Terajima
1972 (53 года)Fuyu no Undoukai
Nobuo Suiden
Kyoko Hasegawa, Jun Kunimura
Story about the relationship between 3 generations of one family. A son and a young woman, father and his dead friend's wife, grandfather and his new love interest who looks like his granddaughter. It may seem that all of them already found their real happiness outside of their family. But, is it the true happiness?
Winter Game
Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel
Akira Inoue
Makoto Fujita, Shinobu Terajima
The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their quest they uncover a plot by one of the clan officials that could change the course of history.
Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Zhang Yimou
Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima
Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought unexpectedly closer to both an understanding of himself and of his son.
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
Yôichi Sai
Kaoru Kobayashi, Kippei Shiina
A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then the canine is paired with a blind man who is initially reluctant to rely on his new partner.
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog
日本の悲劇
Masahiro Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Kazuki Kitamura
In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s family tragedy contains instances of both; diagnosed with lung cancer, Fujio refuses surgery and returns home with his son Yoshio.
Japan's Tragedy
幼な子われらに生まれ
Yukiko Mishima
Tadanobu Asano, Rena Tanaka
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.
Dear Etranger
やわらかい生活
Ryuichi Hiroki
Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35 year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
It's Only Talk
ヴァイブレータ
Ryuichi Hiroki
Shinobu Terajima, Nao Ōmori
Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets truck driver Takatoshi. She joins him on a journey in his bumpy and shaky truck - which vibrates in tune with her uneasy soul.
Vibrator
STAR SAND — 星砂物語 —
Roger Pulvers
Lisa Oda, Riho Yoshioka
In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi, living together in a cave on a small island in Okinawa. The two men are deserters from their armies; yet both vow never to harm another human being again. Hiromi looks after the deserters until another soldier appears and the peace of the cave is shattered. It leads to the death of three of them and a fascinating mystery that isn't solved until the present day.
Star Sand
約束 名張毒ぶどう酒事件 死刑囚の生涯
Jun'ichi Saito
Shinobu Terajima, Tatsuya Nakadai
Masaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died from drinking poisoned wine in a small village gathering in Nabari City in Mie Prefecture. After his arrest, he appealed his innocence on the grounds that the police coerced his confession. He was found not guilty in the first trial. However, it was overturned and he received a death sentence in the second trial, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1972. Since then, Okunishi has continuously appealed for retrial, fighting against the horror of capital punishment. This TV dramatization of the Nabari Poisoned Wine Case depicts Okunishi in an isolated cell, his mother’s unwavering belief in his innocence, and the effort of people who have rallied to Okunishi’s defense.
Promise: The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, The Life of a Death-row Inmate
