Tag: Takehiro Hira

Takehiro Hira was born on July 27, 1974 in Tokyo. His father is actor Mikijiro Hira, and his mother is actress Yoshiko Sakuma. He went on to graduate school at Brown University and Columbia University. After working for a foreign-affiliated company, he turned to acting at the age of 27 and has been active in stage and drama. In 2008 he starred in the stage play Genghis Khan, and in the same year he played the role of Yoshinobu Tokugawa in the NHK Taiga drama Atsuhime.

Rental Family

If you want to read my review of Rental Family, read this post. In レンタル・ファミリー, Phillip is an American actor who lives in Tokyo and receives a job offer. He just didn’t know it would involve acting in people’s real lives and the impact those relationships would have on his own.

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Japanese serie songs

I just watched the anime Yasuke on Netflix. Despite being a work of fiction, I thought it was a beautiful tribute to Japan’s first black Samurai.

In the 2023 carnival, a Brazilian samba school, Mocidade Alegre, won that year’s competition with a plot in honor of the African warrior, who fought alongside Oda Nobunaga (Takehiro Hira), around 1579.

I loved the opening song. Engaging hip-hop with beautiful, blunt and proud lyrics about Yasuke’s loyalty.

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