Hiroaki Murakami
Born in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, he enrolled in Hosei University but withdrew when he successfully auditioned for a part in Kamen Rider. He made his debut as Hiroshi Tsukuba in Skyrider. Hiroaki appeared in a lot of jidaigeki television dramas. He appeared the NHK jidaigeki On'yado Kawasemi in 1980–81, and in a new series Shin On'yado Kawasemi in 1997. He appeared in Hissatsu series Hissatsu Shigotonin V as the florist-turned-blacksmith named Masa, and as a repeating character in Series and popularity. Five Taiga drama roles are among his credits. They are in Haru no Hatō (1985), Kōsaka Masanobu in Takeda Shingen (1988), Fujiwara no Kiyohira in Homura Tatsu (1993), Akechi Mitsuhide in Hideyoshi (1996), and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu in Genroku Ryōran (1999). In the annual TV Tokyo New Year's spectacular, he portrayed Sasaki Kojirō in Miyamoto Musashi (1990), Kira no Nikichi in Jirōchō Sangokushi (1991), Yagyū Jūbei in Tokugawa Bugeichō Yagyū Sandai no Ken (1993), and Araki Mataemon in Tenka Sōran Tokugawa Sandai no Inbō (2006). Among the jidaigeki series he has starred in are Hatchōbori no Shichinin (2000-06), Zenigata Heiji (2004-05), Yagyū Jūbei Nanaban Shōbu (2005–07), and Shikaku Ukeoinin (2007). Additionally, he portrayed Oda Nobunaga in Taikōki Tenka o Neratta Otoko: Hideyoshi" (2006). He has appeared in more than fifteen films, including several in the Kamen Rider and " franchises. Further films to his credit include Gokudō no Onnatachi 2", Juliet Game" and Iron Maze" (In a Grove).
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Credits
- 2022 · HOTEL -NEXT DOOR- as Todo Katsuo
- 2022 · Usogui as Hokoichi Yako
- 2022 · 嘘喰い -鞍馬蘭子篇/梶隆臣篇- as
- 2021 · Love is Phantom as Hara Gonta
- 2020 · 24 JAPAN as Heisuke Satonaka
- 2020 · 堂場瞬一サスペンス ラストライン 刑事 岩倉剛 as
- 2018 · Double Fantasy as Shizawa
- 2017 · FACE - Cyber Hanzai Tokusouhan as
- 2017 · Error as
- 2016 · Gold Woman as Yusuke Kikuta
- 2016 · The Rite of Loss as
- 2015 · Kuroi Gashu: Kusa as 沼田一郎
- 2015 · Zanka: Beautiful Snares as
- 2014 · All-Round Appraiser Q: The Eyes of Mona Lisa as Hisayuki Asahina
- 2014 · The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom as Yoshiharu Hayase
- 2013 · Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill as Larry Inoue
- 2012 · Love for Beginners as Keita Tsubaki
- 2012 · ATARU as Larry Inoue
- 2011 · Villain - Felony investigation team - as Ryuzo Maejima(前島 隆造)
- 2010 · GeishaCop: Fearsome Geisha Corps - Go to Hell as
- 2010 · Solanin as Policeman
- 2010 · My Husband is a Cartoonist as
- 2010 · 黒澤明生誕100年企画 悪い奴ほどよく眠る as
- 2009 · 警視庁南平班〜七人の刑事〜 as
- 2008 · Gu Gu, the Cat as
- 2008 · 刑事の証明 as
- 2007 · 刺客請負人 as
- 2006 · TANNKA as M
- 2006 · 新聞記者・鶴巻吾郎 as
- 2005 · Legendary Swordfights of Yagyu Jubei as Yagyu Jubei
- 2005 · Shibuya Story as Noboru Ando
- 2004 · Onna no naka no futatsu no kao as
- 2004 · Zenigata Heiji as Zenigata Heiji
- 2003 · 警察庁 特別広域捜査官 宮之原警部シリーズ(村上弘明版) as
- 2003 · Seventeen as
- 2002 · Wonderland in the Negative as
- 2001 · 西村京太郎サスペンス 天使の傷痕 as 田島伸治
- 2000 · Hachobori Seven as
- 1999 · Genroku Ryoran as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu / Yasuakira
- 1998 · Bloody Journal of the Shinsengumi as Hijikata Toshizo
- 1997 · Omigasa Juubee as
- 1996 · Hideyoshi as Akechi Mitsuhide
- 1995 · Assassin's Target: Iemitsu as
- 1994 · Dark hunter as Yataro Tanigawa
- 1993 · The Fire Still Burns as
- 1993 · The Fire Still Burns as FUJIWARA no Kiyohira
- 1993 · Three Generations of the Yagyu Sword as Yagyu Jubei Sangen
- 1991 · Sure Death 5 as Masa
- 1991 · Iron Maze as Sugita
- 1990 · Miyamoto Musashi as Sasaki Kojiro
- 1988 · Kamen Rider 1 through RX: Big Gathering as Hiroshi Tsukuba / Kamen Rider (Skyrider) (archival)
- 1988 · Break Out as Koji Nishimura
- 1987 · Yakuza Ladies 2 as Ryoji Kimoto
- 1987 · Sure Death 4 as Masa
- 1986 · Miyako no kaze as 吉野雄一郎
- 1983 · P. P. Rider as Kinta
- 1982 · Jealousy Game as Eiji Haga
- 1980 · Kamen Rider: Eight Riders vs. Galaxy King as Hiroshi Tsukuba / Skyrider
- 1979 · No More Easy Life as
- Future · 新・御宿かわせみ as
- 2002 · 金融腐蝕列島 再生 as 竹中治夫
- 1992 · Shadow Hunters as
- 1989 · The Juliet Game as
- 1988 · Igai to Single Girl as
- 1987 · Mayonaka no tsuma-tachi as
- 1987 · Let's Gotokuji as
- 1986 · Portrait in Prussian Blue as
- 1986 · Sure Death! 3 as Kajiya no Masa
- 1985 · Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder! as Hanaya no Masa
- 1971 · Kamen Rider as Hiroshi Tsukuba / Skyrider