Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 27, 1974
Place of Birth
Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Credits
56 titles
Takehiro Hira
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Karoshi
Anima
Paul
Rental Family
Shinji Tada
Tornado
Fujin
Captain America: Brave New World
Prime Minister Ozaki
Crosspoint
Shigeru Watanabe
Rumours
Tatsuro Iwasaki
Shōgun
Ishido Kazunari
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Hiroshi Randa
The Contestant
Nasubi's Diary (voice)
Gran Turismo
Kazunori Yamauchi
The Swarm
Riku Sato
We Couldn't Become Adults
Keiichiro Sanai
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Kenta
Yasuke
Oda Nobunaga (voice)
Tokyo Chiken no Otoko
Lost Girls & Love Hotels
Kazu
Giri/Haji
Kenzo Mori
Erica 38
Ikuo Hirasawa
Innocence, Fight Against False Charges
雲仙一彦（うんぜん かずひこ）
Koujin
Killing for the Prosecution
Kazuki Tanno
Sekigahara
Shima Sakon
War of Lies
Toru Kushima
IQ246: The Cases of a Royal Genius
99.9 Criminal Lawyer
Koichi Yamashiro
Fragile
Foujita
Lieutenant
Stone's Cocoon
Kadowaki Hitoshi
警視庁殺人分析班
門脇仁志
Kaze no Tōge: Ginkan no Fu
Shinigami-kun
Sleeping Forest
Yasunari Kajita
Bushido
Daihachiro Harada
Train Cruise
Self - Presenter
Ooka Echizen
Tokugawa Yoshimune
The Farthest Galaxy
Lesson of the Evil
Takeki Kume
The Floating Castle
Masaie Natsuka
Kekkon Houkoku
Kodawari Otoko to Marusa no Onna
Juzo Itami
Ace Attorney
Shin Mitsurugi (Gregory Edgeworth)
真珠湾からの帰還～軍神と捕虜第一号～
Tsukahara Bokuden
Samon Yamazaki
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Naotaka Ii
CSI: Crime Scene Talks
AIBOU: The Movie II
SP: The Motion Picture
Eiji Takigawa
桂ちづる診察日録
三国屋喜兵衛
Absolute Zero
Tomoki Sawada