Mitsuru Hirata (平田満, Hirata Mitsuru) is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award[1] and the award for best supporting actor at the 4th Yokohama Film Festival[2] for Fall Guy.
Mitsuru Hirata | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 2, 1953 Aichi, Japan |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Filmography
Film
- Fall Guy (1982), Yasu
- Theater of Life (1983)
- Time and Tide (1984)
- Shanghai Rhapsody (1984)
- Final Take (1986)[3]
- Rex: A Dinosaur's Story (1993)[4]
- Love & Pop (1998)
- First Love (2000)
- The Man In White (2003)
- The Ode to Joy (2006)[5]
- Southbound (2007)
- The Lone Scalpel (2010)
- Rebirth (2011)
- The Woodsman and the Rain (2011)
- Angel Home (2013)
- The Mourner (2015)
- Gukoroku: Traces of Sin (2017)
- And Then There Was Light (2017)
- Memoirs of a Murderer (2017)
- We Are (2018)
- 5 Million Dollar Life (2019)
- Listen to the Universe (2019)
- Fukushima 50 (2020)
- The Asadas (2020)
- Dreaming of the Meridian Arc (2022)[6]
- Call Me Chihiro (2023), Bitō[7]
- The Women in the Lakes (2024)[8]
Television
- Bakumatsu Seishun Graffiti: Fukuzawa Yukichi (1985) - John Manjirō
- Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) - Suzuki Motonobu
- Journey Under the Midnight Sun (2006)
- Barefoot Gen (2007)
- SP (2007–2008)
- Last Friends (2008)
- Mori no Asagao (2010)
- Hana Moyu (2015) - Dr. Yamane Bunki
- Shingari (2015)
- Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016)
- Kenji Miyazawa's Table (2017) - Masajirō Miyazawa
- Segodon (2018) - Ōkubo Jiemon
- Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2018) - Yūrakutei Yakumo VII
- Yell (2020) - Kinsuke Uchikoshi
- Reach Beyond the Blue Sky (2021) - Kawaji Toshiakira[9]
- The Tiger and Her Wings (2024) - Tomohiko Hoshi[10]
Japanese dub
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2024) - Ken[11]