Akihiko Hirata
Birthday: 1927-12-26
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Biography: Akihiko Hirata ( Hirata Akihiko ) (26 December 1927–25 July 1984) was a Japanese film actor. While Hirata starred in many movies (including Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy), he is most well known for his work in the kaiju genre, including such films as King Kong vs. Godzilla, The Mysterians, and his most famous role of Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, the brilliant but disturbed young scientist in the original Godzilla, released in 1954. Hirata died after a long battle with lung cancer in 1984, at age 56. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akihiko Hirata, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
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Godzilla
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
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Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
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Atragon
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Sazae-san's Marriage
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The H-Man
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The Mysterians
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
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Travels of Lord Mito
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Operation Mad Dog
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Mothra
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Ultraman: Great Monster Decisive Battle
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Gorath
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Latitude Zero
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Terror of Mechagodzilla
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
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Rodan
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Attack Squadron
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Daitetsujin 17: Aerial Battleship
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Brain 17
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Adventure in Kigan Castle
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
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Fugitive Alien
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Ôban
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
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Samurai Assassin
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The Sea of Sparta
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Mission to Annihilate the Underworld
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
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The Secret of the Telegian
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Station
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
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Ironfinger
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At This Late Date, the Charleston
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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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Whirlwind
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Sayonara Jupiter
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Samurai Banners
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Battle of the Japan Sea
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The War in Space
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Last Days of the Samurai
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The Mad Atlantic
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A Man in the Storm
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Japan's Longest Day
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Underwater Murder
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The Imperial Navy
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Big Shots Die at Dawn
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
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Godzilla
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Son of Godzilla
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Sanjuro
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Varan the Unbelievable
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The Merciless Trap
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A Woman in Danger
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Daredevil in the Castle
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Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
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Saga of the Vagabonds
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Geisha in the Old City
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Imaginary Paradise
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Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor
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Ultraman: Monster Movie Feature
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Westward Desperado
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The Last Gunfight
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The Big Boss
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The Lost Alibi
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Dog of Fortune
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Operation Enemy Fort
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Varan
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The Last Embrace
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The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When...
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Farewell Rabaul
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und...
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Examination Hell
A student, running late on the day of the University of Tokyo entrance exams, calls in a fake bomb t...
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Blueprint of Murder
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is ...
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Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the ...
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Man Against Man
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of...
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Structure of Hate
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over ...
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The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
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Get 'em All
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks ...
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Challenge to Live
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The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanes...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Girls of the Night
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap...
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Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight the...
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The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie p...
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The Killing Bottle
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group...
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Port Arthur
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...
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Young Challengers
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the fi...
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Nomugi Pass
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him t...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that th...
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's ...
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Crazy Big Explosion
Chaos ensues when a secret agent gathers a group of criminals (The Crazy Cats) to steal gold from a ...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the sec...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for a...
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Itsuko to sono haha
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her....
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Operation Sewer Rats
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese ...
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Legend of the Cat Monster
A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter i...
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Girls in the Orchard
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all t...
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Rainy Night Duel
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Desp...
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Young Guy in Hawaii
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous scree...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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Revive! Ultraman
The film is composed of stock footage from the original Ultraman television series with additional n...
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Even The Mighty Shed Tears
After Ryusaku Nishikawa and his girlfriend Katsuko are attacked by a gang, he trains in karate to se...
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The Last Days of Planet Earth
In 1853, Gentetsu Nishiyama tells his students that the French prophet Nostaradamus foretells great ...
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Rodan! The Flying Monster
A mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a cr...
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Main Line to Terror
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a...
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Holiday in Tokyo
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The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation
A despicable boss uses a husband's “promotion” as bait to assault his subordinate's wife (Chieko Mat...
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The White Rose of Hong Kong
Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong ...
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The Family
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power...
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Girls Behind Bars
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths o...
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Kill the Killer!
JA woman is witness to a murder but flees the scene, leaving behind only a handkerchief with her nam...
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Three Dolls in College
The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University,...
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Devices Stronger Than Women
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics c...
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Ant Hell War
The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima...
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Eacape of Fear
The story follows a man haunted by debt and crime, who flees with his mistress on a tense journey ma...
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Wharf with the Weeping Girl
After a gang killing forces him to flee abroad, ex-yakuza Ryūji returns to Yokohama a year later to ...
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Showdown on Pier No.3
Crime thriller about the investigation of a man murdered at a Tokyo race track. Clues lead Detective...
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Summer in Eclipse
Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with hi...
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Onna tantei monogatari: josei SOS
A private detective and a colleague investigate a man for a wealthy young lady....
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Legend of the Irresponsible Hero
The members of Crazy Cats play employees of a trading company. Ueda Hitoshi of Awa Shoji, a lucky ma...
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