Mikijiro Hira — Actor (39)
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The Goblin of Mt. Kurama (2001) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
鞍馬天狗
director: Kōsei Saitō actor: Ken Matsudaira / Atsuo Nakamura …
other title: 鞍馬天狗
The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of resistance, slaughtering the samurai who sought to bring down the shogunate and restore Japan’s emperor to power. By chance, Murao Mayumi and his sister Shiho, meet samurai Kurata. Murao, seeking his fortune with his sword-arm, will join Shinsengumi, never suspecting his friend Kurata is secretly Kurama Tengu, who hides his face in a black hood, and who will tear a bloody swath through Shinsengumi’s massed blades, to aid the samurai who had taken up the emperor’s cause. Will friend kill friend in a time of war?
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown (1993) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
仕掛人　藤枝梅安スペシャル　対決
director: Haruhiko Mimura actor: Ken Watanabe / Isao Hashizume …
other title: 仕掛人　藤枝梅安スペシャル　対決
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a highly skilled assassin, taking on contracts to quietly eliminate those whose existence is deemed toxic to society. Baian's latest target, assigned by his boss Otowa, is Shirakoya Kikuemon, the head of a powerful organization in Osaka.
In the past, Baian had been indebted to Shirakoya, but due to a conflict involving the swordsman Kosugi Jūgorō, their relationship has turned adversarial. After his lover is abducted, Shirakoya storms into Edo. With his life now targeted, Baian resolves to confront Shirakoya in a desperate final showdown.
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Private Detective DOBU 1 (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
岡っ引どぶ
director: Yūsuke Watanabe actor: Kunie Tanaka / Kirin Kiki …
other title: 岡っ引どぶ
Dobu (Kunie Tanaka) used to be a soldier but now is a private detective. Three vagrants were killed in a shrine, and Dobu found out that those three had a grudge on a timber whole seller, Hinokiya. He reunited with Zirokichi (Takeo Chii), one of his friends and Nezumi Kozo (a thief) , and he infiltrates Hinokiya together.
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Shogunate Secret Ninja (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Oniwaban Himon Ansatsusha
director: Masahiro Takase actor: Ayumi Tachieda / Katsuhiko Watabiki …
other title: Oniwaban Himon Ansatsusha
Lord Tokugawa Tsunatoyo, bound for Edo to be sworn in as the next shogun, is the target of merciless ninja assassins hired by corrupt officials hoping to put their own candidate in his place. His only hope is the “Oniwaban,” the shogunate’s secret ninja force, sworn to throw their lives down recklessly to prevent this coup. But will they stand a chance of getting the lord to his ceremony in time? A perilous chase, betrayal after betrayal, and a final bloodbath await them as ninja battle ninja in one last, desperate struggle.
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Messengers to Satsuma (1982) [Movie] TMDB
薩摩飛脚
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Mikijiro Hira / Kiwako Taichi …
other title: 薩摩飛脚
By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...
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Undercover Ninja: Secret Assassins (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
お庭番秘聞　暗殺者
director: Masahiro Takase actor: Mikijiro Hira / Shigeru Kōyama …
other title: お庭番秘聞　暗殺者
The federal lord of Kofu, Tunatoyo (Tsutomu Isobe), was elected to be the next General. On his way on a trip to Edo for the ceremony, his scapegoat was shot. Oometsuke ordered an Oniwaban, Shinnosuke Takusyoku (Mikijiro Hira) to take Tsunatoyo to Edo safely. However, the enemy turned out to be his younger brother and the federal lord of Tatebayashi Kiyotake (Yoshihiro Kobayashi). On top of that, the Oniwaban sent by Kiyotake to assassinate Tsunatoyo was Shinsuke's father-in-law, Genshin Uno (Shigeru Kamiyuama).
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Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2 (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
風車の浜吉捕物綴　秘剣
director: 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.