Mitsuru Hirata

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	(1953-11-02) November 2, 1953 (age 71) Aichi, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981–present

Filmography

Film

• Fall Guy (1982) as Yasu
• The Gate of Youth: Part 2 (1982) as Masakazu Kawachi
• Theater of Life (1983) as Yasuta Yokoi
• 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) as Bitō^[7]
• The Women in the Lakes (2024)^[8]
• Traveling Alone (2025)^[9]
• Under Ninja (2025) as Principal^[10]
• Showtime 7 (2025)^[11]

Television

• Bakumatsu Seishun Graffiti: Fukuzawa Yukichi (1985) - John Manjirō
• Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) - Suzuki Motonobu^[12]
• 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^[13]
• Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2018) - Yūrakutei Yakumo VII
• Yell (2020) - Kinsuke Uchikoshi
• Reach Beyond the Blue Sky (2021) - Kawaji Toshiakira^[14]
• The Tiger and Her Wings (2024) - Tomohiko Hoshi^[15]

Japanese dub

• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2024) - Ken^[16]