Mitsuru Hirata
Popularity:0.372
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1953-11-02
Place of Birth:Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Homepage:https://alpha-agency.com/artist/hirata/
Also Known As:ひらた みつる

Quiet Don 9 (1996)
Shouldn't gangsters love stubborn people? To protect true love, the Shinsen-gumi gather at night in Tokyo!

The Buried Forest (2005)
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mountainous and bordered by an unkempt buried...

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

Fall Guy (1982)
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes...

Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess (2009)
A man arrives in the city upon news of a potential terrorist strike in Italy. He is Japanese foreign diplomat, Kosaku Kuroda, and he’s here...

First Love (2000)
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a...

Yurika-chan (1997)
An exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio Tamai. Police detectives searching for clues related to a...

Railroad Man (1999)
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line...

Whiteout (2000)
A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the...

Mr. Hacchaki's Tokyo Game (1987)
A movie starring Meijin Takahashi, the God of Famicom. Based on the Hacchaki Sensei manga.

Spectacle of Buds (1986)
A weak willed man teams up with a stripper after her stage show partner runs off with another dancer. He is obsessed with her unique inverted nipples...

The Deep Red (2005)
Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a...

Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2 (1982)
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...

New Hamlet ~Osamu Dazai takes over Shakespeare!?~ (2023)

Kaidan Horror Classics (2010)
Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

Gate of Youth 2 (1982)
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

Piano in a Storeroom (2014)
Two sisters living on a peach farm in Koori town, Fukushima Prefecture,are opposites. Haruka Miyamoto feels less beautiful than her sister Akiba...

Dreaming of the Meridian Arc (2022)
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka...

My Grandpa (2003)
Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose marriage is on the rocks. His 14-year-old...

Flowers (2010)
Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.

Miracle in Four Days (2005)
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a...

Moonlight Mask (2011)
The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who...

Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi (2013)
Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her hometown....

The Woodsman and the Rain (2012)
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for his help and increasingly starts to rely on him.

Pickpocket (2000)
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 Last Message (2012)
Police coroner Kuraishi Yoshio (Masaaki Uchino) and the crime lab team attempt to solve a serial murder case with a killer who seems to kill...

Where The Legend Lives (2008)
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted...

I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with...

Angel Home (2013)
The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga artist Itpon Aijo (Naoto Takenaka) begins to work at...

Our Tomorrow (2014)
At a pawn shop called "K" which is known for being a place where backroom deals are conducted, a professional burglar named Ryo Fudo puts together a...

Inochi (2002)
Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka,...

Fly Boys, Fly! (1995)
Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.

Romantic Prelude (2009)
An aspiring floral designer and the photographer next door become drawn to each other through the everyday sounds they hear through their shared...

Thriller CRT (1991)
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.

A Lone Scalpel (2010)
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer,...

Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a...

Year One in the North (2005)
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of...

Call Me Chihiro (2023)
An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.

Madadayo (1993)
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

The Women in the Lakes (2024)
A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him alive suddenly malfunction, or was he murdered? A...

The Man from Shimizu (1982)
On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a...

Love Letter (1998)
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.

Capone Cries a Lot (1985)
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Choji Snack Bar (1983)
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

Shabu-Shabu Spirit (2015)
A fiancé, Keita, goes to meet the family, the father, Shozo, begins his secret appraisal – a test to see whether this fiancé is...

Nuclear Gypsies (1985)
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon...

Princess Toyotomi (2011)
National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & Asahi Gainsbourg (Masaki Okada) travel from their...

KochiKame - The Movie: Save the Kachidoki Bridge! (2011)
Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than...

Pro Golfer Oribe 2: Par is Fine (1994)
The second film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.

Tales of the Bizarre: 2014 Fall Special (2014)
An omnibus special comprised of five segments.

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

Tora-san, the Go-Between (1985)
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...

Friendship (1998)
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when...

Surgical Designs in Flames (1986)
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.

Hold Me and Kiss Me (1992)
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...

The Man in White (2003)
After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.

Memoirs of a Murderer (2017)
The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how...

The Morning Set, Milk and Spring (2013)
Middle-aged salaryman Ichiro Sasaki (Mitsuru Hirata) hears of the death of his childhood friend Okabe (Takeshi Itoh). Okabe left a message for Ichiro...

The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion (2003)
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.

Shanghai Rhapsody (1984)
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...

Almost Coming, Almost Dying (2017)
To reward himself for his new teaching gig in Sapporo, 29-year-old Manabu decides to celebrate New Year's Eve with a little treat at a local sex...

And Then There Was Light (2017)
On Mihama, one of Tokyo's outlying islands, Shinji witnesses the rape of his girlfriend and middle-school classmate, Haruka, then commits an...

Traces of Sin (2017)
Tanaka is going through a tough time trying to support his younger sister Mitsuko, recently arrested and hold up in jail. As an investigative...

Oishinbo (1996)
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...

Love Bites Back (1988)
Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter....

Pro Golfer Oribe Kinjiro (1993)
Kinjiro Oribe, nicknamed Orikin, is a professional golfer who has not won a single tournament in his 17-year golf career. He arrives at the golf...

Theater Of Life (1983)
Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.

Rebirth (2011)
After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was having an affair with. Raising the child as her own,...

The City of Betrayal (2016)
Yuichi is a freeter who has lazy days. He receives an allowance from a woman that he lives with. Tomoko is a housewife. Yuichi and Tomoko meet...

Nogare no machi (1983)
Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.

Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)
The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on....

Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 37 - Mystery of Double Homicides from Tokyo to Hamamatsu (2015)

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: Murder of the Killer (1998)

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman (1998)

Room Leader (2017)
Detective Nobuhiko Kamamoto is a detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, armed with keen interviewing skills and the ability to read...

Number One (2001)
Kubozuka plays Araki Ryunosuke who starts working at a host club called "club NO.1" to pay his debt.

Love & Pop (1998)
Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends engage in a practice known as enjo kosai, or "compensated dating", where older men pay young girls for dates....

One Who Died in Vain (1986)
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

Zutaboro (2015)
When friends graduate from junior high school and are enrolled in high school Koichi and Yakko join a motorcycle gang. They make new friends, have...

Tokyo Boy (2008)
Minato is a young girl who was traumatized at a young age by being abandoned by her parents and left with her senile grandmother. She frequently...

Soul Flower Train (2013)
Amamoto travels from his small village to Osaka to find his estranged daughter. When he meets a friendly young woman, she gives him a unique guide of...

Fukushima 50 (2020)
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region...

Wasao (2011)
Wasao, an Akita dog in Aomori Prefecture that became famous as an ugly-yet-cute dog from a traveller's blog. Heartwarming drama starring Wasao...

Actress (1987)
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Translucent Tree (2004)
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father...

The Asadas! (2020)
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take...

The Audition (1984)
Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

Music Box (1989)
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.

We Are (2018)
Seven friends part ways after their last day at school. Some seek their fortune in Tokyo, others remain in their hometown Maebashi. Over the course...

Listen to the Universe (2019)
Four pianists take part in the preliminary round of an international piano playing competition. Each has a story that is different and unique. One is...

Double Face: gisō keisatsu-hen (2012)
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...

Double Face: Sen'nyû sôsa hen (2012)
Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.

Happy People (1997)
Japanese anthology follows the depressing lives of several people just trying to keep going in a nihilistic world. Movie version of Kosuke...

Tales of Terror: The Curse of Nobuhiro-san (2006)
Nobuhiro is convinced that, in order to honor his mother's death by suicide, he needs to find the reincarnation of his mother and die with her,...

Tokyo: Level One (2004)
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo.

Go Find a Psychic! (2009)
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while...

Under Ninja (2025)
The once-proud Japanese Ninja disappeared after the war when GHQ disbanded their organization.However, in reality ninjas still exist secretly and it...

Watch Me (2007)
10-year-old Shigeki, owns his own room for the first time. From his room, he sees a girl living in a big hill top house. Shigeki instantly fell in...

Time and Tide (1983)
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

The Politicians (1983)
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love...

Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke (2005)
The two most famous Japanese mystery characters have come together to solve a crime. A year ago, a man was trying to commit suicide by jumping off a...

Little Subculture Wars: The Village Vanguard Strikes Back (2020)

Miyazawa Kenji no Shokutaku (2017)
In 1921, Miyazawa Kenji left a wealthy family and went to Tokyo. Standing on his own two feet, he lived there for 8 months. Late summer, Kenji...

Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke (2005)
The two most famous Japanese mystery characters have come together to solve a crime. A year ago, a man was trying to commit suicide by jumping off a...

生存 愛する娘のために (2002)
A human suspense drama in which a man who was told that he had three months to live searches for the truth about his daughter who disappeared 14...

Kaiki Daisakusen: Mystery File (2013)
Second modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen tv show.

A Younger Man (2003)
Thirty-something office lady Chikako Yamaguchi falls for a man at her gym - Shun Izaki. She proposes but he rejects her. That same Izaki saw...

Into the White Night (2006)
What happens with two children commit two different muders in order to protect each other? Does salvation exist for them? In order to walk beneath...

Absolute Zero (2010)
Izumi Sakuragi is a new police sergeant with the Special Investigations Office, which was set up within the Metropolitan Police in November last...

Nameless Poison (2013)
Saburo Sugimura works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada tasks Saburo...

After the Rains and Dreams (2005)
Ame is in Junior high and lives with her father, who is a butterfly collector in search of the Troides Magellunus. One fateful day, he decided to...

Barefoot Gen (2007)
Hadashi no Gen is a Japanese television special drama. The drama come from the one of the popular manga "Barefoot Gen" written by Keiji Nakazawa,...

The Holy Monsters (2012)
The drama has Okada playing the part of Shiba Kengo, a pure-hearted young surgeon who is dedicated to his work. He gets transferred from a...

Emergency Room 24 Hours (1999)
Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see...

Shotenin Michiru no Mi no Uebanashi (2013)
The drama is based on a novel by Sato Shogo called ‘Minoue Banashi‘. Its story revolves around a bookstore clerk named Michiru who...

Graduation Song (2010)
March is graduation season. Parting with the one you love, becoming disheartened from a broken dream, bereavement from your loved one… In...

Saving My Stupid Youth (2014)
Heisuke teaches at his alma mater, an all-boy’s Buddhist high school and leads a very ordinary life, except for the fact that he is still...

Denshichi Torimonocho (2016)
Denshichi of Kuromon-cho hates crime and hates people. He is a stylish and kind Okakitori. Denchichi is a chivalrous and gentle okabiki, and he will...

Scum of Lawyers (2006)
Bengoshi no Kuzu is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hideo Iura about Takeda Masami, a new lawyer and fellow lawyer Kuzu Motohito, who...

Dear Patient (2020)
Sasai Memorial Hospital has a good reputation for its sincere care for patients. However, holding up a strong policy of 'customer first' has put...

Border (2014)
Ishikawa Ango is a very capable detective that lives only for his job. One day, while investigating a crime scene, he gets shot in the head by the...

Lucky Seven (2012)
Lucky Seven Rakkīsebun is a 2012 Japanese television drama broadcast by Fuji Television from January 16 to March 19, 2012. It stars Jun Matsumoto...

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon (2012)
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from...

99.9 Criminal Lawyer (2016)
Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in...

Divorce Lawyer (2004)
Takako Mamiya is a lawyer who quits her job at a prestigious law firm and establishes her own office. She confidently sets out to build her business,...

Segodon (2018)
Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima...

Waga Machi (1992)
Based on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" series. The drama series is set in Tsukishima, a popular town near downtown Tokyo, and is composed of content...

CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team....

Hello, Detective Hedgehog (2017)
Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take on a...

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2002)
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the...

Taro no Tō (2011)
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...

Pandora (2008)
Suzuki is an eccentric at university hospital who has been conducting a research to come up with a miracle drug for cancer on his own. One day,...

Kimi no na wa (1991)
A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.

Last Friends (2008)
The series follow the life of Michiru Aida, a beauty parlor assistant who returns to Tokyo after 4 years. Bullied by her seniors at work and abused...

Tales of the Bizarre (1990)
Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and...

Signal (2018)
Two detectives communicate through a walkie-talkie to solve a cold case. One detective exists in the present day, and the other detective exists 15...

Innocent Love (2008)
An arson took it all away from Akiyama Kanon seven years ago. Her parents died in that fire, her brother was arrested as the prime suspect and her...

Made in Japan (2013)
With the strong yen, global financial crisis and competition from developing nations, the Japanese manufacturing industry is in a precarious...

The Last Hope (2013)
A medical drama that follows a team of doctors at the Advanced Medical Center of Teito University Hospital. They tackle severe cases that other...

Kokosei Restaurant (2011)
Muraki Shingo has top notch skills as a chef, but as a culinary arts teacher, he is a novice and inexperienced. A former chef, Muraki has turned...

Alive: Dr. Kokoro, The Medical Oncologist (2020)
Onda Kokoro is an oncologist called Dr Onkoro for short by the people around her and teased that she was born for this path. She got married to...

Yell (2020)
NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome...

Humanoid Monster Bem (2011)
Bem, Bela, and Belo are not "monsters," nor "humans," but "humanoid monsters." They usually disguise themselves as a human family living together,...

Love Generation (1997)
Katagiri Teppei (Takuya Kimura) is an advertisement designer, but he's forced to be transferred to the Sales Department because of his egocentric...

Shin Onna Kenji Kasumi Yuko (1994)
Onna Kenji Kasumi Yuko is a TV drama series that aired on Nippon Television's "Tuesday Suspense Theater" and "Tuesday Drama Gold".

Nihon Boro Yado Kiko (2019)
After her father suddenly passes away 27 year old Hanuka Shinomiya finds herself the inexperienced owner of her late fathers talent management...

Reversal Orchestra (2023)
10 years ago, Tanioka Hatsune was a famous young violinist. She won many international music competitions and performed with prestigious orchestras....

The Way Of The Hot & Spicy (2021)
Sarukawa Kenta, a marketer for a mid-range drinks company based in Osaka, is transferred to the Tokyo office for a good job. But in the new place,...

The Tailor-Made Shirt (1986)
Shukichi, the owner of a shirt shop in Tsukuda, Tokyo, is a stubborn craftsman devoted to his work. Through clumsy in his expressions of affection,...

Kura (1995)
Set in a sake brewery in Niigata, from the Taisho to the Showa period, Retsu is a visually impaired girl with a strong will to make her own way in...

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016)
In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is...

Solitary Gourmet (2012)
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments...

Yips (2024)
A detective drama produced by Fuji TV.