Shinobu Terajima
Shinobu Terajima is a renowned Japanese actress known for her versatile performances in both film and television. She gained recognition for her roles in acclaimed films such as 'Caterpillar' and 'The Mourner'. With a career spanning over two decades, she is celebrated for her emotional... Read More
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| Year | Title | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |
Shadow WorkA battered wife who's lost her sense of self after years of domestic abuse finds hope when she escapes to... |
Akie | |
| 2025 |
Hokusai's DaughterThe life of Katsushika Oi, daughter of Hokusai and a trailblazing female artist in Japan. |
Unknown character | |
| 2025 |
KokuhoNagasaki, 1964: Following the death of his Yakuza father, 15-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wings of a famous Kabuki... |
Sachiko Ogaki | |
| 2025 |
I'm a D-list HandlerA former child star, working under a false name, is tasked with managing a team of troubled talents in a... |
Shino Asaskura | |
| 2024 |
HakkendenTakizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of his friend,... |
Ohaku | |
| 2024 |
The ParadesA mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is... |
Kaori | |
| 2022 | Unknown character | ||
| 2022 |
2 WomenModeled on Setouchi Jakucho, Inoue Mitsuharu, and his wife, 2 women depicts the special relationship between a man and two... |
Miharu (Jakkou) Osanai | |
| 2022 |
The Three Sisters of Tenmasou InnTenmasou is a long-established inn atop a mountain overlooking the sea, in a town called Mitsuse that exists between heaven... |
Tenma Keiko | |
| 2022 |
Modern Love TokyoThis seven-episode anthology features a cast of leading actors and depicts various forms of "love," such as love almost forgotten,... |
Unknown character | |
| 2022 |
The Travel NurseNasuda Ayumi is a young travel nurse who gives a bad first impression. In fact, he had been an excellent... |
Aikawa Toko | |
| 2022 | Satoko Honjo | ||
| 2022 |
The JournalistA journalist known as the maverick of news media defiantly chases the truth in this series adaptation of the hit... |
Mayumi Suzuki | |
| 2021 |
Matrilineal Family~~ Adapted from the novel of the same title by Yamasaki Toyoko (山崎豊子) |
矢島藤代 | |
| 2021 |
IntoleranceA teenage girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his rage against those... |
Asako Kusakabe | |
| 2021 | Unknown character | ||
| 2021 |
ArcRina is living a nomadic existence when at age 19 she meets her mentor Ema and gets a job doing... |
Ema | |
| 2021 |
It's a Flickering LifeThe story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams,... |
Ayumu | |
| 2021 |
The Supporting Actors in ByplaywoodIn a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog... |
Unknown character | |
| 2021 |
Earwig and the WitchA headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch. |
Bella Yaga (voice) | |
| 2021 |
A FamilyTaken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to... |
Aiko Kimura | |
| 2021 |
Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting ActorsSet in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of... |
Unknown character | |
| 2020 |
SakuraThree siblings share a home with their parents living a happy life. The oldest one is good-looking guy, which is... |
Tsubomi Hasegawa | |
| 2019 | Unknown character | ||
| 2019 |
Poison Daughter, Holy MotherYumika is an actress. Since she was a child, she has had to endure her mother Yoshika (Shinobu Terajima) controlling... |
Unknown character | |
| 2018 |
Dare to Stop UsIn Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film... |
Maeda's mama | |
| 2018 |
Nomitori SamuraiHironoshin is a samurai of the Echigo-Nagaoka clan. One day, Hironoshin attends a party at a mansion in Edo where... |
Omine | |
| 2018 |
Oh Lucy!A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her... |
Setsuko Kawashima / Lucy | |
| 2018 |
都庁爆破!TBS broadcasts "New Year Drama Special" Metropolitan Bombing! "" From 9 o'clock on Tuesday, January 2, 2018. This is a... |
Unknown character | |
| 2017 |
Dear EtrangerMakoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior... |
Yuka | |
| 2017 |
Star SandIn the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and... |
Gima | |
| 2016 |
The City of BetrayalYuichi is a freeter who has lazy days. He receives an allowance from a woman that he lives with. Tomoko... |
Tomoko Hashimoto | |
| 2016 |
My UncleYukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle... |
Setsuko Haruyama | |
| 2016 |
AutumnMamoru Miyamoto is a book editor and his friend Masao Muraoka is a writer. Muraoka hasn't released a novel since... |
Unknown character | |
| 2016 | Unknown character | ||
| 2016 | Unknown character | ||
| 2016 |
The Shell CollectorThe latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc... |
Painter Izumi | |
| 2015 |
Asa ga KitaTowards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name... |
Imai Rie | |
| 2014 |
Women Does Not Allow That31-year-old Urara Iwasaki (Kyoko Fukada) makes an error during her first trial as an attorney which hurts her client. Urara... |
Rinka Ebisawa | |
| 2014 |
A Samurai ChronicleA retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life. |
Unknown character | |
| 2013 |
Sotoba KomachiMishima reset the story in a 1950s urban park. At the beginning of the story, five couples are sitting on... |
Old woman | |
| 2013 |
R100Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club. |
Whipping Queen | |
| 2013 |
Apple of SodomAfter her ex-boyfriend dies, an editor becomes obsessed with his fiancée, a woman accused of swindling multiple men out of... |
Miyamura Megumi | |
| 2013 |
Sue, Mai & Sawa: Righting the Girl ShipSu-chan, Mai-chan, Sawako-san follows the lives of three women who are former co-workers. 34-year-old Su-chan works at a coffee shop... |
Sawako-san | |
| 2013 |
Promise: The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, The Life of a Death-row InmateMasaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died from... |
Narrator | |
| 2012 |
Japan's TragedyIn 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed... |
Tomoko | |
| 2012 |
The Millennial RaptureSennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in... |
Oryuunooba | |
| 2012 |
Helter SkelterTop model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to... |
Michiko Hata | |
| 2012 |
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own FateOn November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving... |
Yoko Hiraoka | |
| 2012 | Unknown character | ||
| 2011 |
Shita-Machi Rocket -Engineer vs. Elite-Kohei’s company holds the patent of an engine valve system required to develop a space rocket. Will he finally be... |
神谷涼子 | |
| 2011 |
Taro no TōA life story of Taro Okamoto, one of the most prominent Japanese avant-garde artists of the 20th Century. Celebrating the... |
Unknown character | |
| 2011 |
Onihei Gaiden: Kumagoro’s FaceIn pursuit of the notorious thief “Subashiri no Kumagoro,” the Arson and Theft Investigation Squad corners him. Seizo, who has... |
Oen | |
| 2010 |
The Assistant DoctorStory of the last assistant doctor in Okinawa. |
Unknown character | |
| 2010 |
CaterpillarThe story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her... |
Shigeko Kurokawa | |
| 2010 |
The Fallen AngelThe story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time... |
Tsuneko | |
| 2010 |
RyōmadenRyōmaden is the 49th NHK Taiga drama. It was shown on NHK from January 3 to November 28, 2010 spanning... |
Sakamoto Otome | |
| 2009 |
Guardian AngelA low paid company slave, a cheap hoodlum, and a stay-at-home man. These three neer-do-well guys get together to save... |
Katsuko Suga | |
| 2009 |
A Lush LifeThe story involves an aloof thief, a young man who turns to God after his father’s suicide, a manipulative marriage... |
Kyoko | |
| 2008 |
Happy FlightA variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol... |
Reiko Yamazaki | |
| 2008 |
Four LiesThis renzoku follows four women in the "around 40" generation. Shifumi is an attractive woman who stole her classmate's boyfriend... |
Unknown character | |
| 2008 |
Kitaro and the Millennium CurseYoung women disappear one after another in drizzling rain. They all hear the “cursed song” of the Cage Song before... |
Nami/Mermaid | |
| 2007 |
Chacha: The Princess of HeavenChacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa. |
Ogou | |
| 2007 |
Love Never to EndHe is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry spell that has reduced... |
Fuyuka Irie | |
| 2006 |
Akihabara@DEEPSet in Tokyo's otaku mecca Akihabara, "Akihabara@DEEP" tells the story of five otaku who drop out of society and end... |
Fujiko Watarai | |
| 2006 |
It's Only TalkBased on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She... |
Yuko | |
| 2006 |
Junjo KirariThe 74th NHK Asadora Drama is Junjo Kirari, which means something along the lines of "pure-hearted Kirari." The story is... |
Arimori Fueko | |
| 2006 |
Haru, Bânîzu deTsutsui, an office worker, marries Hitomi, who has a son from a previous marriage. However, one day, he realizes that... |
Unknown character | |
| 2006 |
Samurai Justice: The Female BodyguardA chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the granddaughter of... |
Unknown character | |
| 2006 |
Time Limit InvestigatorShūichirō Kiriyama works at the Limitation Task Force, the place where the cases which have reached the statute of limitations... |
Aoi Makuragi | |
| 2005 |
Riding Alone for Thousands of MilesTakada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with... |
Rie Takata | |
| 2005 |
YamatoDirected by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the... |
Unknown character | |
| 2005 |
Until the Lights Come BackA Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds... |
Reiko | |
| 2005 | Unknown character | ||
| 2005 |
Samurai Justice: A Duel at TakadanobaraEdo is rocked by the news that a duel to the death is to be held at Takadanobaba, the famed... |
Unknown character | |
| 2005 |
Tokyo TowerToru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to... |
Kimiko Kawano | |
| 2005 |
Samurai Justice 2: Mother & DaughterMaster swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing... |
Mifuyu | |
| 2005 |
Winter GameStory about the relationship between 3 generations of one family. A son and a young woman, father and his dead... |
Unknown character | |
| 2004 |
Samurai Justice: Assistance in a DuelThe samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his... |
Mifuyu | |
| 2004 |
Quill: The Life of a Guide DogA Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then the canine is... |
Mitsuko Nii | |
| 2004 |
10 Years - A Wife's BetrayalUrushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer. |
Yukiko Mizoguchi | |
| 2004 | Unknown character | ||
| 2003 |
VibratorRei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating... |
Rei Hayakawa | |
| 2003 |
Akame 48 WaterfallsA man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters.... |
Aya | |
| 2003 |
Get Up!A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison.... |
Kaori Fujisawa | |
| 2003 |
MusashiOrphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara,... |
Aya | |
| 2001 | Unknown character | ||
| 1998 |
Love and ErosWhen Kasumi's husband dies in a car wreck, Ryuichi vows to watch over her and her unborn son. Over the... |
Unknown character | |
| 1998 |
Feeling relief is easyHigashiyama Noriyuki stars as a playboy who is not about to be caught, and relative newcomer, Ryo, is the naive... |
Itou Wakako | |
| 1998 |
YukonTakayuki Iwabuchi, a former yakuza member with a tattoo of Kisshoten on his back. Although he has a criminal record,... |
Sawa Hatanaka | |
| 1998 |
Amagi PassA fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the... |
Unknown character | |
| TBA |
One Thousand Paper CranesTwo remarkable women unwittingly work together, across oceans and decades, to create a powerful symbol of peace, the paper crane. |
Unknown character |
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Got a question about Shinobu Terajima?
Shinobu Terajima is best known for her roles in 'Caterpillar', 'The Mourner', and 'Kisaragi', all of which have received critical acclaim and audience appreciation.
Yes, she won the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for her powerful performance in 'Caterpillar'.
Shinobu Terajima made her film debut in 1995 with 'The Harp of Burma', marking the beginning of her successful acting career.
Shinobu Terajima primarily works in drama films but has also explored various genres, including thriller and romance, showcasing her range as an actress.
Yes, she has appeared in several television dramas, further establishing her versatility and popularity in the Japanese entertainment industry.
Shinobu Terajima's estimated net worth is around $5 million, reflecting her successful career in film and television.
Shinobu Terajima's parents are Hiroshi Terajima and Yoshiko Terajima, who have supported her throughout her acting career.
Yes, she is also known for her work in theater, participating in various stage productions that highlight her acting skills.