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Aliases: 平 岳大 , تاکه‌هیرو هیرا , تاكاهيرو هيرا

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Homepage: https://www.ikushimakikaku.co.jp/hira-takehiro/

Movie Involvements: 15

TV Involvements: 11


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
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8

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

(2023) Hiroshi Randa
The Swarm
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7

The Swarm

(2023) Riku Sato
Gran Turismo
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8

Gran Turismo

(2023) Kazunori Yamauchi
Yasuke
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7

Yasuke

(2021) Oda Nobunaga (voice)
Absolute Zero
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8

Absolute Zero

(2010) Tomoki Sawada
Giri/Haji
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7

Giri/Haji

(2019) Kenzo Mori
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
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7
Train Cruise
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Train Cruise

(2013) Self - Presenter

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Professor
2023 Hiroshi Randa
Kazunori Yamauchi
Riku Sato
2021 Keiichiro Sanai
Kenta
Oda Nobunaga (voice)
2020 Kazu
2019 Kenzo Mori
Ikuo Hirasawa
2018 N/A
Tanno
2017 Shima Sakon
Toru Kushima
2016 N/A
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2015 Kadowaki Hitoshi
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2014 N/A
Yasunari Kajita
2013 Daihachiro Harada
Self - Presenter
Yoshimune Tokugawa
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2012 Takeki Kume
Masaie Natsuka
Juzo Itami
Shin Mitsurugi (Gregory Edgeworth)
2011 N/A
Naotaka Ii
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2010 N/A
Eiji Takigawa
三国屋喜兵衛
Tomoki Sawada
Kasai
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N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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