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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as Prime Minister Ozaki
as Kazunori Yamauchi
as Kenta
as Naotaka Ii
as Fujin
as Masaie Natsuka
as Kazuki Tanno
as Takeki Kume
as Shin Mitsurugi (Gregory Edgeworth)
as Kasai
as Yasunari Kajita
as Daihachiro Harada
as Eiji Takigawa
as Kazu
as Tatsuro Iwasaki
as Shima Sakon
as Ishido Kazunari
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as Hiroshi Randa
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as Tomoki Sawada
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as Koichi Yamashiro
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as Riku Sato
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as Oda Nobunaga (voice)
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as Kenzo Mori
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as 雲仙一彦（うんぜん かずひこ）
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as Suketake Inugami
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as Tokugawa Yoshimune
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as Self - Presenter
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as Kadowaki Hitoshi
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as 三国屋喜兵衛
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as Samon Yamazaki
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as Toru Kushima
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