Mikijirō Hira

Mikijirō Hira
in Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)
Born	November 21, 1933 Hiroshima, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–present
Spouse(s)	Yoshiko Sakuma (m. 1970–84)
Children	Takehiro Hira

Mikijirō Hira (平 幹二朗 Hira Mikijirō, born November 21, 1933 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese actor.^[1]

Personal life

Mikijirō's only marriage was to actress Yoshiko Sakuma from 1970 to 1984. Their son Takehiro is an actor.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1964	Adventures of Zatoichi	Gounosuke	Kimiyoshi Yasuda
1964	Three Outlaw Samurai	Einosuke Kikyo	Hideo Gosha
1965	Sword of the Beast	Gen'nosuke	Hideo Gosha
1966	The Face of Another	Psychiatrist	Hiroshi Teshigahara
1968	The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun	Grunwald the Demon of Ice	Isao Takahata	Voice
1982	Willful Murder	Superintendent General Okuno	Kei Kumai
1982	To Trap a Kidnapper	Detective Kenmochi	Shunya Itō
1985	Early Spring Story	Takenaka	Shinichiro Sawai
1988	Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis	Yasumasa Hirai	Akio Jissoji
1994	Rampo	Marquis Ōgawara	Rintarō Mayuzumi
1997	Sharan Q no enka no hanamichi	Daisuke Naruto	Yōjirō Takita
2001	Pistol Opera	Gorō Hanada	Seijun Suzuki
2005	Azumi 2: Death or Love	Sanada Masayuki	Shusuke Kaneko
2005	Princess Raccoon	Azuchi Momoyama	Seijun Suzuki
2008	Aibō the Movie	Kimihiko Mikuriya	Seiji Izumi
2009	Goemon	Sen no Rikyū	Kazuaki Kiriya
2010	13 Assassins	Doi Toshitsura	Takashi Miike
2011	Ninja Kids!!!	Headmaster Ōkawa	Takashi Miike
2012	The Tibetan Dog	Tenzing (Adult)	Masayuki Kojima	Voice
2013	The Eternal Zero	Hasegawa	Takashi Yamazaki

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
1963–1969	Three Outlaw Samurai	Einosuke Kikyo	CX
1970	Mominoki wa Nokotta	Kai Harada	NHK	Taiga drama
1973	Kunitori Monogatari	Saitō Dōsan	NHK	Taiga drama
1979	Fumō Chitai	Tadashi Iki	TBS
1988	Takeda Shingen	Takeda Nobutora	NHK	Taiga drama
1992	Nobunaga	Zuiten	NHK	Taiga drama
2001	Hōjō Tokimune	Hōjō Shigetoki	NHK	Taiga drama
2005	Yoshitsune	Emperor Go-Shirakawa	NHK	Taiga drama
2007	Mito Kōmon	Tokugawa Mitsusada	TBS
2008	Atsuhime	Zusho Hirosato	NHK	Taiga drama
2014	Team Medical Dragon	Shuzō Sakurai	CX
2016	Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit		NHK

Theater

• Antony and Cleopatra
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Faust
• Hamlet
• Iliad
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Medea
• The Merchant of Venice
• NINAGAWA Macbeth
• Oedipus the King
• Othello
• Richard III
• Rokumeikan
• The Tempest
• The Threepenny Opera
• Twelfth Night
• The Winter's Tale

Dubbing roles

• Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) – King Kashekim Nedakh

Honours

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (1998)
• Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2005)

References

1. "Hira Mikijirō". Kotobanku (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun.

External links

• Official profile
• Mikijirō Hira at the Internet Movie Database