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Acting

Mitsuru Hirata

Career: Active from 1982 to 2025, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 20
top three billing

Average score: 70/100

Highest rated: Love Generation
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 31 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Mitsuru Hirata Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
3.3, average 4.1
Pop Culture
1.4, average 2.2
Scare
1.9, average 2.6
Adrenaline
4.1, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 9
Japanese Cinema 7
Medical Drama 3
Ethical Dilemmas 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Emotional Depth 3
Coming-of-Age 3
Social Commentary 3
Nostalgic 3
Intricate Plot 2
Contemporary Realism 2
Japanese Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

131

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

14 titles · average score 70

Under Ninja

61

as Principal

SHOWTIME 7

as Jo Daisaku

Yips

TV show

Call Me Chihiro

75

as Bito

Angel Flight

TV show · as Isao Tadokoro

Reversal Orchestra

TV show · as Hokari Yoshiaki [Oboist]

When I Was Born Next Time

TV show

The Way Of The Hot & Spicy

TV show · as Kazuhiko Tanioka

Fukushima 50

65

as Shigeru Hirayama

The Asadas!

79

as Akira Asada

Yell

TV show

Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist

TV show

2010s

50 titles · average score 71

Almost Coming, Almost Dying

as Le père de Manabu

And Then There Was Light

as Yoichi

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

81

TV show · as Kenta

99.9 Criminal Lawyer

71

TV show · as Naohiko Saegusa（三枝尚彦）

Soul Flower Train

as Amamoto

The Last Hope

TV show · as 하타노 쿠니오

Made in Japan

TV show · as Uzaki Eisaku

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

75

TV show · as Satoshi Mikami

Rebirth

72

as Yuzo Sawada

Kokosei Restaurant

TV show · as Kouichi Iwase

A Lone Scalpel

as Koji Shimada

Absolute Zero

TV show · as Kaoru Tamura

2000s

33 titles · average score 67

Pandora

TV show · as Tomota Shogo

Last Friends

72

TV show · as Shuji Kishimoto

Barefoot Gen

TV show

Into the White Night

74

TV show · as Yosuke Kirihara

The Buried Forest

67

as Machi's father

Tokyo: Level One

as Director of Kasaoka Industrial Labor Bureau

My Grandpa

as Keiichi

The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion

as Tokisada Asakura

Inochi

as Yamamuro

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

TV show

Whiteout

59

as Yoshimitsu Iwazaki

First Love

70

as Yasuhito Aida

1990s

18 titles · average score 77

Emergency Room 24 Hours

TV show · as Sadao Kono（河野定雄）

Railroad Man

72

as Kawaguchi

Love & Pop

77

as Kakegawa

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: Murder of the Killer

as Captain Kamiya

Love Generation

80

TV show · as Takeshi Kurosaki

Kura

TV show

Madadayo

78

as Tada

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

as Daisuke Morioka

Pro Golfer Oribe Kinjiro

as Shinzaburo

Kimi no na wa

TV show · as 水沢謙吾

Tales of the Bizarre

TV show

The Great White Tower

TV show · as Shuji Satomi

1980s

16 titles · average score 73

Love Bites Back

as Kotaro Yamazaki

Twilight of the Cockroaches

68

as Yasuo (voice)

Actress

as Nakama

Spectacle of Buds

as Ajisawa

Tora-san, the Go-Between

as 酒田民夫

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

82

as Thug

Shanghai Rhapsody

as Shinzou Hirota

The Audition

as Hidemaru Mamiya

The Politicians

as Ogushi

Choji Snack Bar

as Ochi

Fall Guy

69

as Yasu

Gate of Youth 2

as Masakazu Kawachi