Hiroshi Mikami

Japanese actor

Hiroshi Mikami
三上博史
Born	(1962-07-23) 23 July 1962 (age 62)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–present

Hiroshi Mikami (三上博史, Mikami Hiroshi, born 23 July 1962) is a Japanese actor.

Early life and career

Mikami grew up in the 1960s with a family that was closely related to the entertainment industry with his mother being an actress and his uncle being a film producer.^[1] Mikami was in high school where he went for his first audition and earned the lead role in Grass Labyrinth directed by Shuji Terayama.^[1] The film won critical praise in France where it became part of the trilogy Collections privées.^[1]

Mikami went on to star in various projects, including the television comedy Kimi no Hitomi wo Taiho Suru and the film Desert Moon, which screened in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] He also has worked in stage, as in 2004, when he played the titular Hedwig in the Japanese version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.^[1]^[2]

Filmography

Film

Grass Labyrinth (1979)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Take Me Out to the Snowland (1987)
Peacock King (1988)
Tōki Rakujitsu (1992)
Swallowtail (1996)
Parasite Eve (1997)
Tokyo Decadence (1991)
Desert Moon (2001)
Premonition (2004)
Mori, The Artist's Habitat (2018)
Love Hotel ni okeru Jōji to Plan no Hate (2019)

Television

Chance (1993)
Operation Love (2007)
Taira no Kiyomori (2012), Emperor Toba
Trembling Cow (2013), Shin'ichi Tagawa^[3]
Everyone's Demoted (2019), Teruo Yokoyama
Okehazama (2021), Imagawa Yoshimoto^[4]
Tanabata no Kuni (2024), Masami Marukami^[5]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result	Ref.
1989	13th Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer of the Year	Himself	Won	^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cortina 2009.
^ Tanaka, Nobuko (26 May 2004). "A hard man-woman is good to find". The Japan Times.
^ "震える牛". TV drama database. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
^ "市川海老蔵主演「桶狭間」緊急放送決定映像作品で親子初共演も". Sankei Shimbun. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
^ "ドラマ「七夕の国」予告映像で人や街が●に抉られる、藤野涼子ら出演者10人を一挙発表". Natalie. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
^ "エランドール賞歴代受賞者一覧". All Nippon Producers Association. Retrieved 6 October 2021.

Sources

Cortina, Sarah (22 July 2009). "Actor Hiroshi Mikami surprises fans once again in new TV movie 'Yukai'". Japan Today. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)