Mitsuru Hirata — Actor (23)
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TV

Taro no Tō (2011)
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Fukui Mitsuhiro / Nagikawa Yoshirou actor: Suzuki Matsuo / Takako Tokiwa …
other title: TAROの塔 / Tower of TARO
A life story of Taro Okamoto, one of the most prominent Japanese avant-garde artists of the 20th Century. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2011, the drama depicts his struggle for the completion of his emblematic work "The Tower of Taro," known as the symbol of the Osaka Expo in 1970, and his eccentric relationships with his family.
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Movie

Pickpocket (2000)
スリ IMDb TMDB
Kazuo Kuroki actor: Yoshio Harada / Jun Fubuki …
other title: スリ
Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally lets Kaido go free. Rei is unsettled when Kaido takes on a young street punk, Kazuki, as an apprentice -- with instructions to make Kaido stop drinking. Kazuki, however, would like to go into business with Rei.
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Movie

Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2 (1982)
風車の浜吉捕物綴　秘剣 IMDb TMDB
Akira Inoue actor: Kazuyo Asari / Mikijiro Hira …
other title: 風車の浜吉捕物綴　秘剣
Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against the Yakuza family, which leads to the murder of a policeman in Edo. This places Hamakichi between the rock and a hard place.
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Movie

Thriller CRT (1991)
スリラーブラウン管 TMDB
Yukihiko Tsutsumi actor: Midori Kiuchi / Bengal …
other title: スリラーブラウン管
A creepy anthology about a homicidal little girl, a woman being stalked, a dentist and a man struggling to keep his eyes open on the road.
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Movie

Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen (2012)
ダブルフェイス 偽装警察編 TMDB
Eiichiro Hasumi actor: Fumiyo Kohinata / Teruyuki Kagawa …
other title: ダブルフェイス 偽装警察編
This is the continuation and final part of Double Face SP, the Japanese remake of the highly successful 2002 Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. This special focuses on Police Inspector Takayama Ryosuke (Kagawa Teruyuki) who had been secretly supplying police information to the organized crime group, the Oda-gumi. Once a young street thug, Takayama was taken under the wing of Oda Hironari (Kohinata Fumiyo), the leader of Oda-gumi. Dressed, fed, and educated, Takayama was instructed to become a police officer and work as a mole for the group. Now, he is tasked to get close to Suenaga Mari (Aoi Yu), a daughter of an influential politician.
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Movie

Translucent Tree (2004)
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Kichitaro Negishi actor: Kumiko Akiyoshi / Toshiyuki Nagashima …
other title: 透光の樹
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
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Shanghai Rhapsody (1984)
上海バンスキング IMDb TMDB
Kinji Fukasaku actor: Keiko Matsuzaka / Morio Kazama …
other title: Rhapsodie de Shanghai / 上海バンスキング
Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Oishinbo (1996)
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Azuma Morisaki actor: Koichi Sato / Michiko Hada …
other title: 美味しんぼ
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".