
Acting
Feb 7, 1951
Ibaraki, Japan
Hirotaro Honda
Acting
Biography
Hirotarō Honda is a Japanese actor from MIto, Ibaraki Prefecture. He started his acting career at the Bungakuza Theatre Company's acting school. His first film appearance was in the Nikkatsu Roman Porno film Sei to Ai no Korider in 1977.
Feature Films (239)

When three drag queens, Virgin, Moririn, and Zubuko, learn that their mentor and former drag queen, Natchan, has died suddenly, they take it upon themselves to keep the secret of her sexuality from her bereaved family.
Natchan's Little Secret

At a movie studio in 1988, rookie director Hanako Hayashi is making her directorial debut, the erotic As Far as Love Will Take Us. She's under pressure from her producer and crew. When she is about to shoot the climax of the film, numerous problems arise. To make matters worse, the set is visited by a censor from the Film Certification Committee, and the key scenes end up being cut out to avoid an R rating. Can Hanako realise her dream?
Shrieking in the Rain

Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
Kamikaze Girls

A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by her once kind mother, Tome.
THE LAST GOZE

A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.
My Brother, The Android And Me

In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama, and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised together in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage. In the summer of 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl whose parents were accidentally shot and killed during a gang's shootout, joins them in the orphanage. Following a yakuza tradition, the honorable Kazama secretly raises orphans whose parents he has directly or indirectly killed. In return, the children love him as a father and he eventually inducts the teenage Kiryu and Nishikiyama into the Dojima Family, a Tojo Clan affiliate of which he is a senior officer.
Like a Dragon: Prologue

Akiko Sakata was a hikikomori during her school days. She was withdrawn from social life and isolated. She goes to Tokyo and becomes a scriptwriter.
Until I, Who Was Unable to Go to School, Wrote "anohana" and "The Anthem of the Heart"
Television & Series (44)

A story of Midori, a housewife, whose body is taken over by Natsume Soseki. The potrait Natsume Soseki, Japan's foremost writer during Meiji period is printed on Japan's old 1000 yen note.
I am a Housewife

The mini-series revolves around the harem of a shogun in the Edo Period in Japan. The women jostle and compete with one another and with their lord and on occasion even wield more power than their master.
Ooku

Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game with both the perpetrators and the police.
The Hovering Blade

Saburo Sugimura works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law Yoshichika Imada runs. One day, Yoshichika Imada tasks Saburo Sugimura with work regarding a man named Nobuo Kajita. A complicated story unfolds from the request.
Nameless Poison

Set in Nagasaki, an international city during the Edo period, the story depicts the verses who have supported the Dutch trade in the shadows. Main character is Sota Ijima.












