Kaoru Hirata

Acting

Kaoru Hirata

Born

1989-12-15 (36)

Place of birth

Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Known for

Kamen Rider poster
6.4

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

Kamen Rider

1971

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger poster
7.7

A group of young pirates from space come to Earth to obtain the "Greatest Treasure in the Universe", which can only be acquired after obtaining the Ultimate Powers of the 34 Super Sentai. However, they end up running afoul of the Space Empire Zangyack, whose earlier invasion forces were wiped out by the 34 Super Sentai long ago. As a result, the space pirates use "pirate copies" of the powers of the older teams and fight the Zangyack forces as the Gokaigers.

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

2011

Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger poster
8.6

When the Cosmic Invading Grand Racing Crew, Hashiriyan intends to expand their territory with Earth being their next target to take over, five genius mechanics join forces with an alien machine named Bundorio Bunderas to create their own supercars and special equipment to defend the planet as the Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger!

Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger

2024

Cold Case: Door of Truth poster
8.2

Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Cold Case: Door of Truth

2016

Mahou Sentai Magiranger poster
8.1

Out of the blue, monsters usually living beneath the Earth’s surface began to attack the terrestrial world. They were called the Underground Hades Empire Infershia. The Ozu Siblings of Makito, Houka, Urara, Tsubasa, and Kai hear from their mother, Miyuki, that they are the Magicians of Justice to stand against the Infershia. The siblings are perplexed by such an unexpected event. However, without hesitation, Miyuki charges at the Infershia, and the Ozu Siblings are forced to come together to fight as one.

Mahou Sentai Magiranger

2005

Midnight Diner poster
8.2

Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.

Midnight Diner

2009

Film credits

2010s · 19 titles

Our Little Sister poster
7.6

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

Our Little Sister

2015

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins poster
7.5

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

2012

Fullmetal Alchemist poster
5.4

Two alchemist brothers go on a quest for the Philosopher's Stone after an attempt to revive their dead mother goes horribly wrong.

Fullmetal Alchemist

2017

Midnight Diner 2 poster
7.6

The Master's late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and a noodle delivery man struggling with love.

Midnight Diner 2

2016

High & Low The Movie poster
6.5

Chiku is a devastated and dangerous town with 5 gangs fighting fiercely. Mugen and the Amamiya Brothers clashed, leading to Mugen disbanding.

High & Low The Movie

2016

Midnight Diner poster
7.7

A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series of flawed patrons including Tamako, whose boyfriend has passed away, live-in worker Michiru, and ruckus-raising Kenzo.

Midnight Diner

2014

Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL: The New Hope poster
5.8

Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case...

Bayside Shakedown THE FINAL: The New Hope

2012

Beyond the Memories poster
7.3

Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a car accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Kanna then meets Roku Akazawa, who also carries a painful experience from his past. When Roku was an elementary school student, a girl who was with him got into an accident and died. Because of that incident, Roku carries a heavy sense of guilt. When they meet, time, frozen since that day, begins to tick again.

Beyond the Memories

2013

All to the Sea poster
NR

Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common, they have one thing they can share: books.

All to the Sea

2010

Memories of a Dead End poster
7.1

A woman travels to Nagoya to meet her boyfriend who works there. She is disheartened to learn that he is seeing a new girl. However, she decides to stay a few more days, in a guesthouse at a dead end.

Memories of a Dead End

2019

Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze poster
6.7

An omnibus featuring four stories about the four seasons.

Summer Night Sky, Autumn Sunset, Winter Morning and Spring Breeze

2019

Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope poster
1.0

Yuria discovered the pleasure of tying herself up in her university days, and resumes the pursuit in order to relieve work stress. She starts a blog to describe the sensation of rope on her skin, and becomes acquainted with a cross-dressing bondage aficionado. Eventually, she grows bolder in practicing her hobby, and begins to wear bindings under her suit while at work.

Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope

2013

One Thousand Trillion Yen Randsom poster
NR

Based on the mystery novel by Yagi Keiichi, the former Deputy Prime Minister was investigated after leaving a national debt of 1,085 trillion yen, but charges were mysteriously dropped. Now, his granddaughter has been kidnapped. The ransom? Either 1,085 trillion yen- the same as Japan's national debt- or a formal apology and financial reconstruction plan from the former Deputy Prime Minister are to be prepared within the next seven days. Can the police save the young girl before the deadline?

One Thousand Trillion Yen Randsom

2015

Kaze no Tayori poster
6.0

Kurumi suddenly gave up opening a cafe with her friend. She hears that her grandfather Takeshi collapsed and goes to visit him in her hometown of Sendai. Takeshi entrusts Kurumi to open a cafe which closed temporarily due to the earthquake, but Kurumi doesn't know what to do. Takeshi hopes Kurumi finds her own way to live. There's not much time left for Takeshi and Kurumi.

Kaze no Tayori

2016

原宿デニール poster
NR

There are many things happening in Harajuku. A policewoman is the local metre maid. She is consistently thinking about her relationship with her seniors. A man is Korean and works at a stockings' shop. He is an expert in the thickness and girth of the women's stockings. The two meet coincidentally one day. A teenager is walking around hoping to be scouted. The film focuses on the different people of different ages, genders and backgrounds in the area. One day the stories begin to merge into one,

原宿デニール

2015

TSY: Time Slip Yankee poster
NR

Two high-school yankees (comic duo «Peace») accidentally travels in high-school days of their parents

TSY: Time Slip Yankee

2012

Maria Watches Over Us poster
3.2

Yumi Fukuzawa is an ordinary first year student at Lillian Girls' Academy. By chance Yumi meets second year student Sachiko Ogasawara, who is a candidate to become a Red Rose. Sachiko later offers her rosary to Yumi Fukuzawa which signifies she will become an older sister to Yumi. Meanwhile, Yumi, who already looks up to popular Sachiko, is perplexed why she is picked. A festival named "Cinderella" then approaches, which is run by the Yamayuri Council. Conflicts between the older and younger sisters soon begins ...

Maria Watches Over Us

2010

Columbo of Shinano 5 - The 'Shinano Country' Murder Case poster
NR

The fifth in a series of Japanese TV movies about a police detective who has adopted the dress and mannerisms of famous American TV detective Columbo, based on a series of novels by popular mystery author Yasuo Uchida.

Columbo of Shinano 5 - The 'Shinano Country' Murder Case

2017

The World You Don't Know About ~Horror Edition~ poster
NR

A live-action drama adaptation of selected ghost stories posted on the horror site Midanai.com.

The World You Don't Know About ~Horror Edition~

2012

2000s · 6 titles

The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker poster
6.8

A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl who changed his life.

The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker

2007

Mahou Sentai Magiranger the Movie: Bride of Infershia poster
6.3

Kai and the Magiranger travel from the heights of Magitopia to the depths of Infershia in order to save Yamazaki from becoming the bride who releases a Hades Beastman's phantom army!

Mahou Sentai Magiranger the Movie: Bride of Infershia

2005

The Red Thread poster
5.0

Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.

The Red Thread

2008

Be a Man!! Samurai School poster
4.8

Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his revenge against his former school. Now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school he fully intends on taking over Otokojuku.

Be a Man!! Samurai School

2008

Un-Nan - The Legend of the Eight-headed Serpent poster
NR

This film is the second installment in a Shimane trilogy by director Yoshinari Nishikori, following White Ship. Tetsuro, a third-year high school student living in Unnan City, delivers milk produced at his father’s factory to his hospitalized mother every morning. As he approaches graduation, he finds himself troubled by his future path and his feelings for his classmate Takako. His friends Yuji and Kumiko try to help his romance succeed, but things don’t go as planned… Set in Unnan, a region dotted with sites tied to ancient mythology, the film portrays the everyday lives of the people who live there in a gentle human drama.

Un-Nan - The Legend of the Eight-headed Serpent

2008

H1O Heisei 1 Neno Onnanoko poster
NR

Weekly ASCII's first photobook and accompanying image DVD release, featuring eighteen talents born in the first year of the Heisei era.

H1O Heisei 1 Neno Onnanoko

2007

Series credits

Kamen Rider poster
6.4

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

Kamen Rider

1971

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger poster
7.7

A group of young pirates from space come to Earth to obtain the "Greatest Treasure in the Universe", which can only be acquired after obtaining the Ultimate Powers of the 34 Super Sentai. However, they end up running afoul of the Space Empire Zangyack, whose earlier invasion forces were wiped out by the 34 Super Sentai long ago. As a result, the space pirates use "pirate copies" of the powers of the older teams and fight the Zangyack forces as the Gokaigers.

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

2011

Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger poster
8.6

When the Cosmic Invading Grand Racing Crew, Hashiriyan intends to expand their territory with Earth being their next target to take over, five genius mechanics join forces with an alien machine named Bundorio Bunderas to create their own supercars and special equipment to defend the planet as the Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger!

Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger

2024

Cold Case: Door of Truth poster
8.2

Yuri Ishikawa and her team try to crack unresolved cold cases in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Cold Case: Door of Truth

2016

Mahou Sentai Magiranger poster
8.1

Out of the blue, monsters usually living beneath the Earth’s surface began to attack the terrestrial world. They were called the Underground Hades Empire Infershia. The Ozu Siblings of Makito, Houka, Urara, Tsubasa, and Kai hear from their mother, Miyuki, that they are the Magicians of Justice to stand against the Infershia. The siblings are perplexed by such an unexpected event. However, without hesitation, Miyuki charges at the Infershia, and the Ozu Siblings are forced to come together to fight as one.

Mahou Sentai Magiranger

2005

Midnight Diner poster
8.2

Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just a single choice. However, the customers still come for the amusing chatter and the proprietor's willingness to cook any dish that they request. This drama depicts the lives of the restaurant's patrons, including a yakuza, an unsuccessful actor, a group of office ladies, a newspaper delivery boy, and a stripper.

Midnight Diner

2009

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories poster
7.9

In an otherwise mundane diner open from midnight to 7 a.m., there is no menu – but the chef cooks anything his customers want. Each episode is about different a different customer, as they find simple yet profound connections with one another based on their shared love of a particular dish.

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

2016

Unnatural poster
8.4

Mikoto, a forensic investigative examiner, and her partners trace down the evidence of crimes and unravel the puzzles behind mysterious deaths.

Unnatural

2018

Back of Father poster
8.0

A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.

Back of Father

2014

Ouroboros poster
7.0

"Ouroboros" is an ancient symbol that depicts a snake eating its own tail - meaning infinity. Based on a popular comic, a clumsy detective and a cool gang stand up to true evil. Ikuo and Tatsuya grew up in a children's orphanage together. When their favorite teacher, Yuiko, is murdered, a policeman wearing a gold watch covers up the incident. Ikuo and Tatsuya promise each other to avenge their teacher someday. Twenty years later, Ikuo is a detective in Shinjuku second police station investigating various cases with elite detective - Mizuki, while smart and handsome Tatsuya has become one of the top members of a gang group.

Ouroboros

2015

Ueno Juri and the Five Bags poster
NR

The series features Ueno taking on five roles in five episodes. As the title suggests, each episode involves a bag of some kind, such as a guitar case or a mysterious delivery package.

Ueno Juri and the Five Bags

2009

Saru Lock poster
7.2

Yataro Sarumaru, nicknamed "Saru" is an average high school boy who daydreams about idols but otherwise has no luck with girls. While working with his father, a locksmith in Asakusa, Tokyo, he has gained exceptional skills to pick just about any lock. Using his exceptional skills, Yataro then finds himself solving various mysterious cases, while also trying his luck with the girls.

Saru Lock

2009

Red Thread of Fate poster
5.0

Akai Ito is Japanese television drama series based on a popular mobile phone novel written by Mei about two soulmates - junior high school students Mei and Atsushi - who must overcome drugs, rape and attempted suicide in order to be together. The love story was an online hit in 2006 and later published as a series of five books which sold 1.8 million copies.

Red Thread of Fate

2008

The Last Cinderella poster
6.9

Sakura is a single 39-year-old woman who works as the assistant manager at a beauty salon. She spends her days making her customers look beautiful but doesn’t pay much attention to her own appearance. All of that changes when she goes to a party and meets Hiroto, a much younger man who is a biker. Will Sakura revel in the attention of the handsome but dangerous Hiroto or notice the constant interest of her hard-talking and hard-drinking salon manager, Rintaro?

The Last Cinderella

2013

Samurai Cat poster
7.4

Kyutaro is a swordsman who was feared by people at one time. Now, he is poor and lives alone quietly. Kyutaro doesn't know how to earn money without using his sword. By chance, Sakichi happens to see Kyutaro's swordsmanship and offers to hire him for a job.

Samurai Cat

2013

Tonsure poster
NR

Yabu is an unattractive and incompetent middle-aged publishing editor. Mika is a beautiful young author who debuted at 18 and has since written two best-sellers. When Yabu commissions some writing from Mika, she suddenly finds herself stricken with writer's block. Somehow, Yabu ends up being confined to Mika's home, resulting in a strange state of cohabitation for the mismatched pair.

Tonsure

2008

Tofu Sisters poster
NR

A tv drama that fused mockumentary, drama, and animation. It was originally planned to be an original DVD drama in 2008. Three sisters live together (all played by Yoshitaka Yuriko) who are like tofu. The eldest is a librarian suffering due to an affair, the second daughter is a cabaret club worker and the youngest is an actress. The eldest daughter is a drama. The second daughter was an animation. The youngest daughter is a documentary.

Tofu Sisters

2010

Let's play with KONNO-SAN! poster
NR

The story follows the daily - and strange - happenings of the sailor-suit-wearing high school student, Konno Miyuki.

Let's play with KONNO-SAN!

2008

SIGN poster
NR

It's been two years since Douji became deaf and lost the purpose in his life. One evening when he goes to the club where his big brother works, he meets a dancing boys team and finds out that even if he can't hear what people say he can still feel the music's vibrations and dance. Then he decides to join the dancing team and soon discovers a whole new world.

SIGN

2011

The End of the Wind poster
NR

A story about samurai from a clan in the Tohoku Region in the Edo Period. Matazaemon was born as a second son to humble parents and rises to a head retainer of the clan. At the age of 53, he suddenly feels the sign of aging and starts to consider his retirement. He looks back on his life in which he lost his four friends, including one who was killed by Matazaemon. Despite his success, he feels that his fame is vanity and finally finds the importance of human trust.

The End of the Wind

2007

週刊赤川次郎 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

週刊赤川次郎

2007