Hiroki Hasegawa

Hiroki Hasegawa is my favourite kind of late bloomer. Born in Tokyo in 1977 and trained as a stage actor at the Bungaku-za after Chuo University, he did not start turning up on Japanese television until around 2008, and in films from 2011, past thirty by the time most actors have either broken through or quit. Then the range arrived all at once: the unsettling romantic lead of Second Virgin, the ineffectual father in the enormous hit Kaseifu no Mita, the fast-talking official trying to hold a country together in Shin Godzilla, and finally Akechi Mitsuhide carrying a year-long NHK historical drama. His 2012 Elan d'or newcomer prize looks almost comic in hindsight. What ties those parts together, for me, is his gift for playing men who are out of their depth and hiding it. That is not a face an actor who succeeded early ever learns.

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Name (English)

Hiroki Hasegawa

Name (Japanese)

長谷川博己

Reading

はせがわ ひろき

Born

March 7, 1977 (age 49)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

183 cm

Occupation

actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

Blood type

A

Agency

ヒラタオフィス

Active years

2001 -

High school

Hachioji Junior & Senior HIgh School

University

Chuo University

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year

Works summary

Appearances

120 (2002–2026)

By year

2002: 1, 2003: 2, 2004: 3, 2005: 3, 2006: 3, 2007: 2, 2008: 5, 2009: 6, 2010: 3, 2011: 5, 2012: 5, 2013: 11, 2014: 8, 2015: 7, 2016: 11, 2017: 6, 2018: 6, 2019: 4, 2020: 3, 2021: 5, 2022: 7, 2023: 3, 2024: 5, 2025: 1, 2026: 2

Debut work

BENT

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://hirata-office.jp/talent_profile/entertainment/hiroki_hasegawa.html
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroki%20Hasegawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E8%B0%B7%E5%B7%9D%E5%8D%9A%E5%B7%B1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11653757

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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