Takehiro Hira

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 HaraKiri Death of a Samurai Ace Attorney and Aku no Kyoten He plays Natsuka Masaie in the bigbudget film Nobous 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 threemonth tour was received well at many places in the UK Hira played the lead role in the 2019 British TV series GiriHaji 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 FXs adaptation of Shōgun Description above from the Wikipedia article Takehiro Hira licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia