Akihiko Hirata (Actor)

Reviews of Akihiko Hirata Movies

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Movies starring Akihiko Hirata have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 58%.

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto - released in 1954 - is Akihiko Hirata's highest rated movie, with a score of 76% based on 121 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Akihiko Hirata is Fugitive Alien - released in 1987 - with a score of 23% based on 3 reviews.

Actor Biography

Akihiko Hirata ( Hirata Akihiko ) (26 December 1927-25 July 1984) was a Japanese film actor. While Hirata starred in many movies (including Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy), he is most well known for his work in the kaiju genre, including such films as King Kong vs. Godzilla, The Mysterians, and his most famous role of Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, the brilliant but disturbed young scientist in the original Godzilla, released in 1954. Hirata died after a long battle with lung cancer in 1984, at age 56.

Akihiko Hirata has acted in films with Haruo Nakajima, Kenji Sahara, Katsumi Tezuka and Shōichi Hirose.

Akihiko Hirata has worked with these film directors: Ishirō Honda, Jun Fukuda, Hiroshi Inagaki and Kihachi Okamoto.