Takehiro Hira

Known for ActingBorn 1974-07-27 (age 51)Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takehiro Hira, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

稲垣吾郎の金田一耕助シリーズ

Shōgun

Tsukahara Bokuden

Stone's Cocoon

Absolute Zero

Rental Family

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Fragile

Gran Turismo

Bushido

IQ246: The Cases of a Royal Genius

Ooka Echizen

Giri/Haji

Yasuke

The Floating Castle

AIBOU: The Movie II

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

Sleeping Forest

SP: The Motion Picture

War of Lies

The Contestant

Sekigahara

Innocence, Fight Against False Charges

99.9 Criminal Lawyer

Shinigami-kun

Lesson of the Evil

The Swarm

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins

We Couldn't Become Adults

Killing for the Prosecution

Tornado

Captain America: Brave New World

Ace Attorney

Lost Girls & Love Hotels

Goodbye, Someday

Foujita

Rumours

Kodawari Otoko to Marusa no Onna

Karoshi

Anima

Crosspoint

Tokyo Chiken no Otoko

Erica 38

Koujin

Kaze no Tōge: Ginkan no Fu

警視庁殺人分析班

Train Cruise