Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#9407
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Takehiro Hira works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Takehiro Hira appears in 10 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Takehiro. Rental Family is the clearest case: a film rated 7.7 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, thriller, science fiction. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Takashi Doscher, Julius Onah, Hikari and others, Takehiro Hira helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Rental Family (2025) as Shinji Tada · Gran Turismo (2023) as Kazunori Yamauchi · Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021) as Kenta
Career snapshot
Ranked #9407 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
10
2020–2027
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.7
Rental Family
Average Nutevio score
5.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.7
Rental Family
Most frequent director
Takashi Doscher
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Takashi Doscher
Most common genre
Drama
6 titles
Average runtime
1h 39m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
5.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Karoshi, Anima, Captain America: Brave New World — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
5.1
Across 10 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
5.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Karoshi, Anima, Captain America: Brave New World.
Most productive era
2020s
10 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 5.56 films |
| Action | 5.35 films |
| Thriller | 3.12 films |
| Comedy | 4.23 films |
| Romance | 6.41 film |
| Horror | 4.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Kazu.
Highest rated performance
2023Gran Turismo
7.7 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
2025Rental Family
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Karoshi
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
10 of 10 films
as Shinji Tada
Directed by Hikari
as Kazunori Yamauchi
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Shinji Tada
Rental Family (2025)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Shinji Tada gives Takehiro Hira a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Kazunori Yamauchi
Gran Turismo (2023)
Performance score7.5
Gran Turismo asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kazunori Yamauchi is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kenta
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)
Performance score6.6
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kenta is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Karoshi
Karoshi (2027)
Performance score6.5
Karoshi asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Shinji Tada
Start here. Rental Family is the clearest statement of what Takehiro Hira does — accessible, 110 minutes, and rated 7.7 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Takehiro at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (2021)
A deliberate change of key after Rental Family — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Gran Turismo (2023)
Keeps the action register of Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins but asks for a colder reading of it.
Anima (2026)
Same director as Gran Turismo, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Karoshi (2027)
A deliberate change of key after Anima — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Guy Maddin
Director
1 film together
Notably Rumours
Hikari
Director
1 film together
Notably Rental Family
Julius Onah
Director
1 film together
Notably Captain America: Brave New World
Takashi Doscher
Director
1 film together
Notably Karoshi
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Hikari
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Rental FamilyRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe OriginsJulius Onah
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Captain America: Brave New WorldGuy Maddin
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RumoursTakashi Doscher
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
KaroshiSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Gran Turismo
as Kazunori Yamauchi
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
We Couldn't Become Adults
as Keiichiro Sanai
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Gran Turismo
as Kazunori Yamauchi
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Gran Turismo
as Kazunori Yamauchi
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Rental Family
as Shinji Tada
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Takehiro Hira has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
6 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Gran Turismo
as Kazunori Yamauchi
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Gran Turismo
as Kazunori Yamauchi
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
We Couldn't Become Adults
as Keiichiro Sanai
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Gran Turismo
as Kazunori Yamauchi
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Gran Turismo
as Kazunori Yamauchi
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Tornado
as Fujin
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Rental Family
as Shinji Tada
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Captain America: Brave New World
as Prime Minister Ozaki
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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