Takehiro Hira
Acting
Born: Jul 27, 1974
From: Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anima | Paul | 2026 | — |
| Tornado | Fujin | 2025 | 6.219 |
| Rental Family | Shinji Tada | 2025 | 7.734 |
| Captain America: Brave New World | Prime Minister Ozaki | 2025 | 5.979 |
| Rumours | Tatsuro Iwasaki | 2024 | 4.921 |
| Crosspoint | Shigeru Watanabe | 2024 | — |
| Gran Turismo | Kazunori Yamauchi | 2023 | 7.705 |
| The Contestant | Nasubi's Diary (voice) | 2023 | 6.889 |
| We Couldn't Become Adults | Keiichiro Sanai | 2021 | 6.4 |
| Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins | Kenta | 2021 | 6.5 |
| Tokyo Chiken no Otoko | 2021 | — | |
| Yasuke TV | Oda Nobunaga (voice) | 2021 | 7.344 |
| Lost Girls & Love Hotels | Kazu | 2020 | 5.4 |
| Erica 38 | Ikuo Hirasawa | 2019 | — |
| Koujin | 2018 | — | |
| Killing for the Prosecution | Kazuki Tanno | 2018 | 6.3 |
| Sekigahara | Shima Sakon | 2017 | 7.0 |
| Foujita | Lieutenant | 2015 | 5.2 |
| Sleeping Forest | Yasunari Kajita | 2014 | 7.0 |
| Bushido | Daihachiro Harada | 2013 | 7.556 |
| Ace Attorney | Shin Mitsurugi (Gregory Edgeworth) | 2012 | 6.102 |
| Lesson of the Evil | Takeki Kume | 2012 | 6.7 |
| The Floating Castle | Masaie Natsuka | 2012 | 7.403 |
| Kekkon Houkoku | 2012 | — | |
| Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai | Naotaka Ii | 2011 | 7.178 |
| SP: The Motion Picture | Eiji Takigawa | 2010 | 7.071 |
| AIBOU: The Movie II | 2010 | 7.3 | |
| Goodbye, Someday | Kasai | 2010 | 5.4 |
| ワルシャワの秋 | 2003 | — | |
| Karoshi | — | ||
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1974 |
| From | Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan |