Hiroaki Murakami
Born
December 22, 1956 (68 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
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).
Seppuku: The Sun Goes Down
2024
Hotel: Next Door
Todo Katsuo · (6 episodes)
2022
Usogui
Hokoichi Yako
2022
嘘喰い -鞍馬蘭子篇／梶隆臣篇-
(4 episodes)
2022
Love is Phantom
Hara Gonta · (12 episodes)
2021
24 JAPAN
Heisuke Satonaka · (24 episodes)
2020
Last Line Detective Tsuyoshi Iwakura
2020
ラストライン 刑事 岩倉剛
(1 episode)
2020
Double Fantasy
Shizawa · (5 episodes)
2018
FACE - Cyber Hanzai Tokusouhan
(10 episodes)
2017
Error
2017
Gold Woman
Yusuke Kikuta
2016
The Rite of Loss
2016
Kuroi Gashu: Kusa
沼田一郎
2015
Zanka: Beautiful Snares
(10 episodes)
2015
All-Round Appraiser Q: The Eyes of Mona Lisa
Hisayuki Asahina
2014
The Great Shu Ra Ra Boom
Yoshiharu Hayase
2014
Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill
Larry Inoue
2013
Love for Beginners
Keita Tsubaki
2012
ATARU
Larry Inoue · (11 episodes)
2012
Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead
2012
悪党 重犯罪捜査班
Ryuzo Maejima（前島 隆造） · (8 episodes)
2011
GeishaCop: Fearsome Geisha Corps - Go to Hell
2010
Solanin
Policeman
2010
My Husband is a Cartoonist
(156 episodes)
2010
黒澤明生誕100年企画 悪い奴ほどよく眠る
(1 episode)
2010
警視庁南平班〜七人の刑事〜
(1 episode)
2009
63 Minutes Later
2009
Gu Gu, the Cat
2008
刑事の証明
(1 episode)
2008
刺客請負人
(1 episode)
2007
TANNKA
M
2006
新聞記者・鶴巻吾郎
(1 episode)
2006
Legendary Swordfights of Yagyu Jubei
Yagyu Jubei · (19 episodes)
2005
Shibuya Story
Noboru Ando
2005
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
Zenigata Heiji
Zenigata Heiji · (20 episodes)
2004
警察庁 特別広域捜査官 宮之原警部シリーズ（村上弘明版）
(1 episode)
2003
Seventeen
2003
Wonderland in the Negative
2002
金融腐蝕列島 再生
竹中治夫
2002
西村京太郎サスペンス 天使の傷痕
田島伸治 · (1 episode)
2001
Hachobori Seven
(66 episodes)
2000
Genroku Ryoran
Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu / Yasuakira · (49 episodes)
1999
Bloody Journal of the Shinsengumi
Hijikata Toshizo · (10 episodes)
1998
Omigasa Juubee
(1 episode)
1997
Hideyoshi
Akechi Mitsuhide · (49 episodes)
1996
Assassin's Target: Iemitsu
1995
Dark hunter
Yataro Tanigawa
1994
The Fire Still Burns
(15 episodes)
1993
The Fire Still Burns
FUJIWARA no Kiyohira · (35 episodes)
1993
Three Generations of the Yagyu Sword
Yagyu Jubei Sangen · (13 episodes)
1993
Shadow Hunters
1992
Sure Death 5
Masa
1991
Iron Maze
Sugita
1991
源氏九郎颯爽記 秘剣揚羽の蝶
1991
Miyamoto Musashi
Sasaki Kojiro · (13 episodes)
1990
The Juliet Game
1989
Kamen Rider 1 through RX: Big Gathering
Hiroshi Tsukuba / Kamen Rider (Skyrider) (archival)
1988
Igai to Single Girl
(6 episodes)
1988
Break Out
Koji Nishimura
1988
Yakuza Ladies 2
Ryoji Kimoto
1987
Mayonaka no tsuma-tachi
1987
Sure Death 4
Masa
1987
Let's Gotokuji
1987
Kamen Rider
Hiroshi Tsukuba / Skyrider · (54 episodes)
1971
新・御宿かわせみ
(1 episode)
Miyako no kaze
吉野雄一郎 · (150 episodes)
1986
Portrait in Prussian Blue
1986
Sure Death! 3
Kajiya no Masa
1986
Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
Hanaya no Masa
1985
P. P. Rider
Kinta
1983
Jealousy Game
Eiji Haga
1982
Kamen Rider: Eight Riders vs. Galaxy King
Hiroshi Tsukuba / Skyrider
1980
No More Easy Life
1979