--- name: "Hiroshi Abe" canonical: "https://film.one/person/hiroshi-abe" fi1m_id: "hiroshi-abe" imdb_id: "nm0008346" tmdb_id: 66155 wikidata_id: "Q940531" roles: ["Actor"] born: "22 June 1964" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-28T21:00:51.513746+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Hiroshi Abe ## Identity Hiroshi Abe - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hiroshi-abe - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** hiroshi-abe - **IMDb ID:** nm0008346 - **TMDB ID:** 66155 - **Wikidata ID:** Q940531 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Abe_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0008346/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66155 Actor. Born 22 June 1964 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 22 June 1964, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan - **Also known as:** هیروشی آبه - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Abe_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0008346/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66155 ## Coming up - *The Potentials* (2026-10-30), as Akira Baba - *Sukiyaki* (2026-12-25), as Producer Nabeyama - *Happy List* (2027-02-05), as Taro Egawa ## Fi1m on Hiroshi Abe > Hiroshi Abe is the tall man standing straight-backed, and what he is worth depends on who is directing him. Left alone he glowers; put in one of Kore-eda's family rooms or Takeuchi's bathhouses, he turns the same stiffness into something worth watching. He stands straight. He is a tall man, and in a good suit with his shoulders back and his face set he looks like the man at the table who has already decided. In *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999) that is the whole of Mitsuo Katagiri: he runs the government's crisis agency from a boardroom, wants the creature dead, and says so in every scene he shares with Takehiro Murata's rumpled scientist. We spent 107 minutes waiting for him to do anything but glower, and he never did, and we came out irritated with the film for thinking the glower was a character. It is not. It is where Abe starts. The stillness came with the job. He began as a model in the mid-1980s and made his film debut in 1987, and the height and the face that got him cast then got him stuck; by the early 1990s the work had thinned. A stage part in 1993 and film work in 1994 turned it round, and *TRICK* (2000), the long-running television series, made him. He played Jirō Ueda, a sceptical physicist, and the programme used his old modelling photographs against him for laughs. That is the trick, if you like: the same rigid, upright man, and somebody has finally noticed he is funny. Hirokazu Kore-eda noticed something else. In *Still Walking* (2008) Abe is Ryota Yokoyama, the estranged son back with his family for a reunion, and he plays the resentment and its slow thaw through small gestures and silences rather than speeches. Kore-eda has used him four times, in a supporting part in *I Wish* (2011) and as another Ryota, Shinoda this time, in *After the Storm* (2016), and the method is always the same: put him in a room with people who know him and let him not say the thing. The man who stood there saying nothing in a Toho boardroom is standing there saying nothing in a family drama, and this time it means something, because Kore-eda has built a room in which not saying it costs him. Hideki Takeuchi found the comedy in the same posture. In *Thermae Romae* (2012) Abe is Lucius, an ancient Roman bath architect who keeps time-travelling out of his own century, and he carries the whole joke by refusing to react to any of it as a normal person would. The sequel repeats the premise without deepening it, which nobody has blamed on him. Physicists, architects, detectives, family men: he is nearly always the rigid one, and the good films are the ones that give him something to soften towards. He is still working, with *Last Samurai Standing* (2025) among the recent credits, and he still talks about building a character as the part of the job he enjoys. Preparing for *Offbeat Cops* (2022) he had about three months to learn the drums; "The first time I tried was a disaster", he said. Start with *Still Walking*, not with Godzilla. The suit is the same in both. The difference is what the director asked the man inside it to do. ## Biography Hiroshi Abe is a Japanese actor and model. Born on 22 June 1964 in Yokohama, he graduated from Chuo University in 1988 with a degree in electrical engineering. He began his career as a model in the mid-1980s before transitioning to acting. Abe made his film debut in *Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern* (1987). He is known for roles including Mitsuo Katagiri in *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), Ryota Yokoyama in *Still Walking* (2008), and Ryota Shinoda in *After the Storm* (2016). He has also appeared in *Thermae Romae* (2012) and the *TRICK* television series. Abe has received several acting awards, including the Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Actor for *Thermae Romae*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), Fi1m 63, as Mitsuo Katagiri — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md) ## Complete filmography (180) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Happy List* (2027), as Taro Egawa - *Sukiyaki* (2026), as Producer Nabeyama - *The Potentials* (2026), as Akira Baba - *Last Samurai Standing* (2025), series, as Okabe Gentosai - *Not Me That Went Viral* (2025), as Taisuke Yamagata - *Candlestick* (2025), as Kentaro Nohara - *News Anchor* (2025), series, as Soichi Shindo - *Eternal Harmony* (2025), series, as Kenji Obayashi - *SHOWTIME 7* (2025), as Orimoto Shinnosuke - *Vivant* (2023), series, as Mamoru Nozaki - *What Will You Do, Ieyasu?* (2023), series, as Takeda Shingen - *The Call of a Faraway Mountain* (2022), Actor - *Because We Forget Everything* (2022), series, as M - *Offbeat Cops* (2022), as Tsukasa Naruse - *Tonbi* (2022), as Yasuo Ichikawa - *DCU* (2022), series, as Masayoshi Nina - *In the Wake* (2021), as Seiichiro Tomashino - *HOKUSAI* (2021), as Juzaburo Tsutaya - *The Garden of Evening Mists* (2019), as Nakamura Aritomo - *新春ドラマ特別編 下町ロケット* (2019), series, Actor - *A Distant Cry from Spring* (2018), as Kōsaku Tajima - *The Crimes That Bind* (2018), as Kyoichiro Kaga - *Nomitori Samurai* (2018), as Hironoshin Kobayashi - *Sakura Guardian in the North* (2018), as Tokujiro Ezure, Theme Song Performance - *Legend of the Demon Cat* (2017), as Abe Nakamaro - *Lear on the Shore* (2017), as Yukio - *Shippu Rondo* (2016), as Kazuyuki Kuribayashi - *The Sniffer* (2016), series, as Hanaoka Shinichiro - *A Loving Husband* (2016), as Yohei Miyamoto - *After the Storm* (2016), as Ryota Shinoda - *Everest: The Summit of the Gods* (2016), as Hanyu - *Shitamachi Rocket* (2015), series, as Kohei Tsukuda - *The First Train Runs in Hiroshima* (2015), as Akitaka Matsuura - *Tales of the Bizarre 25th Anniversary Spring Special: Popular Manga Artist Competition* (2015), Actor - *Julius Caesar* (2014), Actor - *Snow on The Blades* (2014), as Jyubei Sahashi - *Cape Nostalgia* (2014), as Koji Kashiwagi - *Thermae Romae II* (2014), as Lucius - *Trick Shinsaku Special 3* (2014), Actor - *Trick the Movie: Last Stage* (2014), as Jiro Ueda - *Sleeping Forest* (2014), as Kaga Kyoichiro - *Trick Haha no Izumi Hen Cho Kanzen Ban* (2013), Actor - *Before the Vigil* (2013), as Matsuoi - *By Rule of Crow's Thumb* (2012), as Take - *Going My Home* (2012), series, as Ryota Tsuboi - *Thermae Romae* (2012), as Lucius - *Cymbeline* (2012), Actor - *The Wings of the Kirin* (2012), as Kyoichirou Kaga - *Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet* (2011), as Yamaguchi Tamon - *A Flawless Concierge* (2011), as Ministry of Foreign Affairs Employee - *A Ghost of a Chance* (2011), as Hayami - *The Yellow Handkerchief* (2011), as Shima Yusaku - *Memories Corner* (2011), as Kenji - *Cheers From Heaven* (2011), as Hikaru Ohshiro - *We Can't Change the World, But We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia* (2011), as Prof. Kondo - *I Wish* (2011), as Mr. Sakagami - *Red Finger* (2011), as Kyoichiro Kaga - *Ekeb of Dekye* (2010), as Tokito Takahiko - *Trick Shinsaku Special 2* (2010), as Jiro Ueda - *Trick the Movie: Psychic Battle Royale* (2010), as Jiro Ueda - *Shinzanmono* (2010), series, as Kyoichiro Kaga - *Clouds Over the Hill* (2009), series, as 秋山好古 - *White Spring* (2009), series, as Sakura Haruo - *The Triumphant Return of General Rouge* (2009), as Keisuke Shiratori - *Heart of a Samurai* (2009), series, as Kenshin Uesugi - *What the War Meant* (2008), as Akiho Ishii - *The Blue Bird* (2008), as Mr. Murachi - *Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Kenshiro* (2008), as Kenshirô (voice) - *Tales from the Dead* (2008), as Jiro - *Still Walking* (2008), as Ryota Yokoyama - *CHANGE* (2008), series, as Katsutoshi Nirasawa - *The Last Princess* (2008), as Rokurota - *Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki* (2008), as Kenshirô (voice) - *The Glorious Team Batista* (2008), as Keisuke Shiratori - *Chocolate* (2008), as Masashi - *The Shadow Spirit* (2007), as enokizu reijirou - *Happily Ever After* (2007), as Isao Hayama - *Hero* (2007), as Mitsugu Shibayama - *High and Low* (2007), as 戸倉碧警視 - *The Suicide Song* (2007), as Jake - *Fist of the North Star: Legend of Raoh - Chapter of Fierce Fighting* (2007), as Kenshiro (voice) - *The Sword of Alexander* (2007), as Genkurou - *Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria* (2007), as Kenshirô (voice) - *Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust* (2007), as Isao Shimokawaji - *Haruka naru Yakusoku* (2006), as Hachiya Yasaburo - *Adiantum Blue* (2006), as Ryuji Yamazaki - *He Who Can't Marry* (2006), series, as Shinsuke Kuwano - *HERO SP* (2006), as Mitsugu Shibayama - *The Ode to Joy* (2006), as Iko - *Trick: The Movie 2* (2006), as Jiro Ueda - *Fist of the North Star: The Legend of the True Savior: Legend of Raoh-Chapter of Death in Love* (2006), as Kenshirô (voice) - *Forbidden Siren* (2006), as Kei Tsuchida - *父が来た道* (2005), series, Actor - *Inferno* (2005), Actor - *Trick Shinsaku Special* (2005), Actor - *Summer of Ubume* (2005), as Reijiro Enokizu - *Dragon Sakura* (2005), series, as Kenji Sakuragi - *Welcome to Irabu's Office* (2005), as Ichiro Irabu - *The Man Behind the Scissors* (2005), as Horinouchi - *Tetsujin 28: The Movie* (2005), as Shoichiro Kaneda - *Yoshitsune* (2005), series, as Taira no Tomomori (Kiyomori's 4th son) - *River of First Love* (2004), as Shiro Takakura - *Survive Style 5+* (2004), as Aoyama, the Hypnotist - *RUNAWAY* (2004), series, Actor - *At-Home Dad* (2004), series, as Kazuyuki Yamamura - *Hana & Alice* (2004), as Alice's Mother's Companion - *Rika* (2003), Actor - *Always Smiling* (2003), series, as Reijiro Sakurai - *最後の弁护人* (2003), series, Actor - *The Last Lawyer* (2003), series, Actor - *Musashi* (2003), series, as Touji Gion - *Trick: The Movie* (2002), as Jiro Ueda - *Midnight Rain* (2002), series, Actor - *My Little Chef* (2002), series, as Kensaku Tachibana - *Wedding Planner SWEET Delivery* (2002), series, as Koyurugi Jun - *The Scarlet Camellia* (2001), series, Actor - *Platonic Sex* (2001), as Hideyuki Ishikawa - *Antique: Western Antique Cake Shop* (2001), series, as Chikage Kobayakawa - *Shotgun Marriage* (2001), series, as Eitaro Kawaguchi - *Shotgun Marriage Special* (2001), Actor - *Rush!* (2001), as Andô - *Ex Lover* (2001), series, as Hayato Kitazawa - *Ex−Lover* (2001), series, as Kitazawa Hayato 北沢迅人 - *Hero* (2001), series, as Mitsugu Shibayama / 芝山贡 - *Gore from Outer Space* (2001), as FBI Agent - *Shin Gonin 2* (2000), as Yanming - *Shin Gonin* (2000), as Ryu - *Trick* (2000), series, as Jiro Ueda - *Yasha* (2000), series, Actor - *Crazy Lips* (2000), as Narimoto - *Tokyo Raiders* (2000), as Takeshi Ito - *Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen* (2000), Actor - *Godzilla 2000: Millennium* (1999), as Mitsuo Katagiri — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-2000-millennium.md) - *V no Arashi* (1999), series, as Coach - *恋愛結婚の法則* (1999), series, Actor - *The Rules of Marrying for Love* (1999), series, Actor - *Weekend Marriage* (1999), series, as Omori jun - *必殺! 三味線屋・勇次* (1999), as Hairdresser Yasuke / Kamiyui no Yasuke - *Genroku Ryoran* (1999), series, as Horibe Yasubei - *Omizu no Hanamichi* (1999), series, Actor - *Nemuri Kyōshirō 4: The Woman Who Loved Kyoshiro* (1998), Actor - *French Dressing* (1998), as Mr. Murai - *Happy Mania* (1998), series, as Tohdo Hideki - *Sometimes Love is a Lie* (1998), series, as Terui Osamu - *Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 5: Beloved Lost Ball* (1998), Actor - *News no Onna* (1998), series, Actor - *Moon Over Tao: Makaraga* (1997), as Hayate - *Narita Divorce* (1997), series, as Kitamura Takuya - *Bancha mo Debana* (1997), series, Actor - *30 -thirty-* (1997), Actor - *Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 4: Shank Shank Shank* (1997), Actor - *After the Wind Has Gone* (1996), Actor - *橋の雨* (1996), series, Actor - *Hotel Rose* (1996), Actor - *Sanctuary - Part 3* (1996), as Chiaki Asami - *Sanctuary - Part 2* (1995), as Chiaki Asami - *Secret Liaisons* (1995), Actor - *Pro Golfer Kinjiro Oribe 3: Fly Birdie* (1995), Actor - *June Bride* (1995), series, Actor - *Sanctuary* (1995), as Chiaki Asami - *悪党図鑑* (1994), Actor - *Villain Encyclopedia 2* (1994), Actor - *Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon* (1994), as Tsukiyomi - *The Mystery of Rampo* (1994), as Singer - *Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare* (1994), as Tadao Shimamoto - *Pro Golfer Oribe 2: Par is Fine* (1994), Actor - *Kyouju Luger P08* (1994), as Shiro Doi - *Etorofu Harukanari* (1993), series, Actor - *Baian the Assassin: Showdown* (1993), Actor - *Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears* (1993), Actor - *Pro Golfer Oribe Kinjiro* (1993), as Sakurako's Brother - *Destiny Pass* (1993), series, Actor - *Rule of Revenge ROGUE COP* (1992), Actor - *Fist Demon* (1992), Actor - *Baian the Assassin* (1991), series, as Kosugi Juugoro - *A Magical Night for Two* (1991), Actor - *Saga of the Phoenix* (1989), as Kujaku - *Yawara!* (1989), as Kosaku matsuda - *There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl* (1987), Actor - *VIVANT劇場版*, Actor ## Gallery - ![第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/4096987/gallery-f72e559864b2.jpg) 第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2825332258907%29.jpg/1280px-Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2825332258907%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/4096987/gallery-fb14a17ff9d6.jpg) 第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2840203799711%29.jpg/1280px-Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2840203799711%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/4096987/gallery-3f71da1b8976.jpg) 第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2828424039139%29.jpg/1280px-Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2828424039139%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Hiroshi Abe](https://film.one/media/person/4096987/gallery-0c6156a55fb7.jpg) Hiroshi Abe — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2840203798571%29.jpg/1280px-Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2840203798571%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Hiroshi Abe](https://film.one/media/person/4096987/gallery-2661142ae718.jpg) Hiroshi Abe — Image via TMDB - ![Hiroshi Abe](https://film.one/media/person/4096987/gallery-003ad7d1f872.jpg) Hiroshi Abe — Image via TMDB - ![第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/4096987/gallery-d4a2c4f846cd.jpg) 第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2840170873322%29.jpg/1280px-Abe_Hiroshi_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2840170873322%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 染谷将太 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/4096987/gallery-2c92cf7037d4.jpg) 第30回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 阿部寛 染谷将太 (空海-KU-KAI-) (2017) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Abe_Hiroshi_%26_Sometani_Shota_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2839492571914%29.jpg/1280px-Abe_Hiroshi_%26_Sometani_Shota_from_%22Legend_of_the_Demon_Cat%22at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2017_%2839492571914%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor 2013: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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