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Takehiro Hira
ActorBorn July 27, 1974 (50 years)
Takehiro Hira (平 岳大, Hira Takehiro, born July 27, 1974) is a Japanese theatre, film, and television actor.
Hira was born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, to actors Mikijirō Hira and Yoshiko Sakuma. He was raised in Japan until he was 15 years old. He went to high school at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, and then attended Brown University.
He made his theatrical debut in 2002 with Rokumeikan, which was written by Yukio Mishima. He worked closely with his father, Mikijirō Hira, who was also a Japanese actor. Takehiro played the role of Iago in the production of Othello with his father playing Othello. He received major recognition when he played the last shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, in the NHK taiga drama Atsuhime. He has appeared in several films of Takashi Miike, including Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Ace Attorney, and Aku no Kyoten. He plays Natsuka Masaie in the big-budget film Nobou's Castle.
He played the role of the Player Queen in the English stage production of Hamlet in 2005, in which the title role was played by Michael Maloney. This three-month tour was received well at many places in the UK.
Hira played the lead role in the 2019 British TV series Giri/Haji. He has also had notable parts in the American films Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020) and Snake Eyes (2021) and a minor role in Gran Turismo. In 2024, Hira starred in FX's adaptation of Shōgun.
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Hira was born in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, to actors Mikijirō Hira and Yoshiko Sakuma. He was raised in Japan until he was 15 years old. He went to high school at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, and then attended Brown University.
He made his theatrical debut in 2002 with Rokumeikan, which was written by Yukio Mishima. He worked closely with his father, Mikijirō Hira, who was also a Japanese actor. Takehiro played the role of Iago in the production of Othello with his father playing Othello. He received major recognition when he played the last shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, in the NHK taiga drama Atsuhime. He has appeared in several films of Takashi Miike, including Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Ace Attorney, and Aku no Kyoten. He plays Natsuka Masaie in the big-budget film Nobou's Castle.
He played the role of the Player Queen in the English stage production of Hamlet in 2005, in which the title role was played by Michael Maloney. This three-month tour was received well at many places in the UK.
Hira played the lead role in the 2019 British TV series Giri/Haji. He has also had notable parts in the American films Lost Girls & Love Hotels (2020) and Snake Eyes (2021) and a minor role in Gran Turismo. In 2024, Hira starred in FX's adaptation of Shōgun.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Takehiro Hira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| 2025 | Tornado · as Fujin |
| 2025 | Captain America: Brave New World · as Prime Minister Ozaki |
| 2024 | Rumours · as Tatsuro Iwasaki |
| 2024 | Crosspoint · as Shigeru Watanabe |
| 2024 | Shōgun (TV Series) · as Ishido Kazunari |
| 2023 | Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (TV Series) · as Hiroshi Randa |
| 2023 | The Contestant · as Nasubi's Diary (voice) |
| 2023 | Gran Turismo · as Kazunori Yamauchi |
| 2023 | The Swarm (TV Series) · as Riku Sato |
| 2021 | We Couldn't Become Adults · as Keiichiro Sanai |
| 2021 | Snake Eyes · as Kenta |
| 2021 | Yasuke (TV Series) · as Oda Nobunaga (voice) |
| 2020 | Lost Girls and Love Hotels · as Kazu |
| 2019 | Erica 38 · as Ikuo Hirasawa |
| 2019 | Innocence, Fight Against False Charges (TV Series) · as 雲仙一彦（うんぜん かずひこ） |
| 2019 | Giri/Haji (TV Series) · as Kenzo Mori |
| 2018 | Killing for the Prosecution · as 丹野和樹 |
| 2018 | Butler Saionji's Great Reasoning (TV Series) · as Shinichi Yamana |
| 2017 | Sekigahara · as Shima Sakon |
| 2017 | War of Lies (TV Series) · as Toru Kushima |
| 2016 | IQ246 (TV Series) |
| 2016 | 99.9 Criminal Lawyer (TV Series) |
| 2016 | Fragile (TV Series) |
| 2016 | Sanada Maru (TV Series) · as Katsuyori Takeda |
| 2015 | Foujita · as Lieutenant |
| 2015 | Stone's Cocoon (TV Series) · as Kadowaki Hitoshi |
| 2015 | 64 (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2014 | Shinigami Kun (TV Series) |
| 2014 | Sleeping Forest · as Yasunari Kajita |
| 2013 | The Fighter Pilot · as Cast |
| 2013 | Bushido · as Daihachiro Harada |
| 2012 | Lesson of the Evil · as Takeki Kume |
| 2012 | The Floating Castle · as Masaie Natsuka |
| 2012 | Keigo Higashino Mysteries (TV Series) · as Sakurai Yuji |
| 2012 | Naniwa Junior Detectives (TV Series) · as Toru Yokota |
| 2012 | Umechan Sensei (TV Series) · as Shinkichi Sanada |
| 2012 | Ace Attorney · as Shin Mitsurugi (gregory Edgeworth) |
| 2011 | Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai · as Naotaka Ii |
| 2011 | CSI: Crime Scene Talks (TV Series) |
| 2011 | Gou (TV Series) · as Kazunari Saji |
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | SP: The Motion Picture I · as Eiji Takigawa |
| 2010 | Absolute Zero: Special Investigation Unit (TV Series) · as Tomoki Sawada |
| 2010 | Goodbye, Someday · as Kasai |
| 2008 | Atsuhime (TV Series) · as Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu |
| 2007 | Chacha: The Princess of Heaven · as Cast |
| 2003 | Tokumei Kakarichou Tadano Hitoshi (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2002 | Lone Wolf and Cub (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 2000 | AIBOU (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1999 | The Woman of S.R.I. (TV Series) · as Cast |