The Face of Another
1967
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Mikijirō Hira (平 幹二朗, Hira Mikijirō, 21 November 1933 – 23 October 2016) was a Japanese actor. Starting as a stage actor in the 1950s, he also worked in film and television and was active until the time of his death.
- Actor
- 21 November 1933, Hiroshima, Japan
- 1956–2016
- 23 October 2016 (aged 82), Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Mikijirō Hira (平 幹二朗 Hira Mikijirō) was a Japanese actor. Starting as a stage actor in the 1950s, he also worked in film and television and was active until the time of his death. From the 1970s he starred in several of Yukio Ninagawa's productions, including an acclaimed role as Macbeth.
13 Assassins ( Japanese: 十三人の刺客, Hepburn: Jūsannin no Shikaku) is a 2010 samurai film directed by Takashi Miike, and starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Sōsuke Takaoka, Hiroki Matsukata, Kazuki Namioka and Gorō Inagaki.
- $17.5 million
- Kōji Endō
- $6 million
Starting as a stage actor in the 1950s, he also worked in film and television and was active until the time of his death. From the 1970s he starred in several of Yukio Ninagawa's productions, including an acclaimed role as Macbeth. Described as "Japan's best Shakespearean actor", Hira received seve...
The film is an origin-story offshoot of Gosha's 1963 Japanese television series of the same name, with the same lead actors, Tetsuro Tamba, Isamu Nagato, and Mikijirō Hira.
- Toshiaki Tsushima
- Shochiku
- Ginichi Kishimoto, Tetsuro Tamba
Businessman Tatsuya Nakadai (star of Kurosawa’s KAGEMUSHA and RAN), facially disfigured in an industrial fire, consents to psychiatrist Mikijirō Hira’s experimental surgery, fitting him with an amazingly lifelike mask. Then estranged wife Machiko Kyō (RASHOMON) falls for the handsome stranger.
Mikijirō Hira (平 幹二朗, Hira Mikijirō, 21 November 1933 – 23 October 2016) was a Japanese actor. Starting as a stage actor in the 1950s, he also worked in film and television and was active until the time of his death.
