Hiroaki Murakami
Hiroaki Murakami is a Japanese actor. He specializes in jidaigeki roles, and has also taken parts in tokusatsu and modern productions.
Career
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 the Hissatsu series drama 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, Kōsaka Masanobu in Takeda Shingen, Fujiwara no Kiyohira in Homura Tatsu, Akechi Mitsuhide in Hideyoshi, and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu in Genroku Ryōran. In the annual TV Tokyo New Year's spectacular, he portrayed Sasaki Kojirō in Miyamoto Musashi, Kira no Nikichi in Jirōchō Sangokushi, Yagyū Jūbei in Tokugawa Bugeichō Yagyū Sandai no Ken, and Araki Mataemon in Tenka Sōran Tokugawa Sandai no Inbō. Among the jidaigeki series he has starred in are Hatchōbori no Shichinin, Zenigata Heiji, Yagyū Jūbei Nanaban Shōbu, and Shikaku Ukeoinin. Additionally, he portrayed Oda Nobunaga in Taikōki Tenka o Neratta Otoko: Hideyoshi
He has appeared in more than fifteen films, including several in the Kamen Rider and Hissatsu franchises. Further films to his credit include Gokudō no Onnatachi 2, Juliet Game, and Iron Maze''.
Filmography
Film
- No More Easy Life
- 8 Kamen Riders vs. Galaxy King as Sky Rider
- Jerashî gêmu as Eiji Haga
- P.P. Rider as Kinta
- Hissatsu! Buraun-kan no kaibutsutachi as Masa the florist
- Hissatsu! III Ura ka Omote ka
- Purushian burû no shôzô
- Let's Gôtoku-ji!
- Sure Death 4: Revenge as Masa
- Gokudo no onna-tachi 2 as Ryoji Kimoto
- Ikidomari no Banka: Brake out as Koji Nishimura
- Juliet Game as Masahiko
- Iron Maze as Sugita
- Hissatsu!5 Ōgon no Chi
- Hissatsu! Mondo Shisu
- 17sai tabidachi no futari
- Shibuya monogatari as Noboru Ando
- Tannka as M
- Daichi no uta
- Love for Beginners as Keita Tsubaki
- Kyôryû wo horô!
- Idainaru, Shurarabon
- Bannou kanteishi Q: Mona Riza no hitomi
- Usogui: Lie Eater as Hikoichi Yakō
- Kamaishi Ramen Monogatari
- Seppuku: The Sun Goes Down
- ''Shasen Henkō''
Television
- Kamen Rider Skyrider as Hiroshi Tsukuba / Sky Rider
- On'yado Kawasemi
- Hissatsu Shigotonin V as Hanaya no Masa
- Hissatsu Shigotonin V Gekitouhen as Kajiya no Masa
- Hissatsu Shigotonin V Senpuhen as Masa
- Hissatsu Shigotonin V Fuunryūkohen as Masa
- Takeda Shingen as Kōsaka Masanobu
- Homura Tatsu as Fujiwara no Kiyohira
- Hideyoshi as Akechi Mitsuhide
- Shinsengumi Keppūroku as Toshizo Hijikata
- Genroku Ryoran as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
- Nene: Onna Taikōki
- Yae's Sakura
- 24 Japan as Heisuke Satonaka
- Miss Kuroitsu from the Monster Development Department as Narrator