Shōhei Hino

{{Short description|Japanese actor and singer (1949–2024)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Shōhei Hino

| birthname = Kōichi Nihei

| birth_date = {{birth date|1949|5|30}}

| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|11|14|1949|5|30}}

| death_place = Tokyo, Japan

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1960–2024

| spouse =

| domesticpartner =

| website =

}}

{{nihongo|Shōhei Hino|火野 正平|Hino Shōhei|May 30, 1949 – November 14, 2024}} was a Japanese actor and singer. Hino was born in Tokyo and raised in Osaka.{{cite web|URL= https://www.zakzak.co.jp/people/news/20160218/peo1602180830001-n3.htm |title= 【火野正平】3歳で父親と死別、継父との確執、華麗な女性遍歴…赤裸々な自伝が人気|publisher= ぴいぷろ|accessdate= 26 October 2018}} Hino appeared in many jidaigeki television dramas. He is best known for his roles in the Hissatsu series.Hissatsu DVD magazine File5 Nenbutsu no tetsu Koudansha Last page Hino`s interview すべての道は役者に通ず 火野正平インタビュー p. 265

Life and career

Hino began his acting career at the age of 13. In 1966, he made his film debut with Izukoe. In 1973, he was given the stage name Shōhei Hino by novelist Shōtarō Ikenami. In the same year, he won popularity through his role Hashiba Hideyoshi in Kunitori Monogatari.{{cite web| url=https://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/47941 |title= モテの天才・火野正平が語る男の色気 プレイボーイ"に年齢は関係ない!|publisher= 週刊現代|accessdate= 26 October 2018}} In 1974, Hino made film appearance for the first time in eight years and played lead role for the first time in My Blood is the Blood of Others directed by Toshio Masuda. He was one of the candidates for the role of main character Genji in Shohei Imamura's film Eijanaika but eventually he played a smaller role.若くなるには時間がかかる publisher 講談社 2016 {{ISBN|978-4-06-219857-8}} P.51 As a singer Hino debuted in 1977 with the single "Sonomamani".

From 2011, Hino has been hosting a travel program Nippon Judan Kokorotabi on NHK-BS which he travelled around Japan by bicycle.{{cite web|URL=https://www2.nhk.or.jp/hensei/program/p.cgi?area=001&date=2019-11-17&ch=10&eid=05074&f=1782 |title=にっぽん縦断こころ旅|publisher=NHK|accessdate= 26 October 2018}}

In 2012, Hino played General Hideki Tojo in the film Emperor.{{cite web |url= https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0042144|title= 片岡孝太郎が昭和天皇役!ハリウッド映画『エンペラー』に西田敏行・桃井かおりら出演!|access-date= August 1, 2023|work= Cinematoday}}

Hino died in Tokyo on November 14, 2024, at the age of 75.[https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20241120/k10014643781000.html 俳優 火野正平さん死去 75歳 全国を自転車で回る番組でも活躍] {{in lang|ja}}

Selected filmography

=Films=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! class="unsortable"| Notes

! class="unsortable"| Ref

1966

| Izukoe

| Kinsuke

| Kozo Saeki

|

|

1974

| My Blood is the Blood of Others

| Ryosuke Kinugawa

| Toshio Masuda

| Lead role

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/35386/|title= 俺の血は他人の血|access-date= January 25, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

rowspan=2|1979

| Sanada Yukimura no Bōryaku

| Anayama Kosuke

| Sadao Nakajima

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/36710/|title= 真田幸村の謀略|access-date= January 31, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

Vengeance Is Mine

| Jun'ichirō Yoshitake

| Shōhei Imamura

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/39168/|title= 復讐するは我にあり|access-date= January 26, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

1980

| Shogun's Ninja

| Gosuke

| Norifumi Suzuki

|

| {{cite web |url= https://www.toei-video.co.jp/catalog/dutd02888/|title= 忍者武芸帖 百地三太夫|access-date= January 30, 2024|work= Toei}}

1981

| Eijanaika

| Magohichi

| Shōhei Imamura

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/35006/|title= ええじゃないか|access-date= January 24, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

1982

| The Gate of Youth: Part 2

| Takuji

|Koreyoshi Kurahara

|

| {{cite web |title=Gate of Youth: Independence (1982) |url=https://www-allcinema-net.translate.goog/cinema/147966?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en |website=www.allcinema.net |access-date=8 March 2025}}

1986

| Gonza the Spearman

| Hannojo

| Masahiro Shinoda

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/39860/|title= 鑓の権三|access-date= January 27, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

1994

| Crest of Betrayal

| Kampei

| Kinji Fukasaku

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/37833/|title= 忠臣蔵外伝 四谷怪談|access-date= January 26, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

rowspan=2|1999

| Hissatsu! Shamisenya no Yuji

| Karasuma no Kengyō

| Shigeru Ishihara

| Hissatsu series

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/39007/|title= 必殺! 三味線屋勇次|access-date= February 1, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

Owls' Castle

| Kuroami

| Masahiro Shinoda

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/39173/|title= 梟の城|access-date= February 3, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

2002

| Aiki

| Tokoname

| Daisuke Tengan

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/76036/|title= AIKI|access-date= January 29, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

2012

| Emperor

| Hideki Tojo

| Peter Webber

| American-Japanese film

|

rowspan=2|2014

| The Light Shines Only There

| Matsumoto

| Mipo O

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/78908/|title= そこのみにて光輝く|access-date= February 3, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

Last Love: My One and Only

| Iwata

| Hitoshi Ishikawa

| Lead role

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/80701/|title= LAST LOVE 愛人|access-date= February 4, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

rowspan=2|2017

| Alley Cat

| Yasuo Hashiba

| Hideo Sakaki

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/86181/|title= アリーキャット|access-date= February 4, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

Legend of the Demon Cat

| Kūkai's Teacher

| Chen Kaige

| Chinese film

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/85836/|title= 空海 KU-KAI 美しき王妃の謎|access-date= August 1, 2023|work= eiga.com}}

rowspan=2|2022

| Life in the Fast Lane

| Kaitō

| Taichi Suzuki

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/96503/|title= 生きててよかった|access-date= May 13, 2022|work= eiga.com}}

The Zen Diary

| Carpenter

| Yuji Nakae

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/95676/|title= 土を喰らう十二ヵ月|access-date= February 17, 2022|work= eiga.com}}

rowspan=2|2023

| As Long as We Both Shall Live

| Yoshirō Tsurugi

| Ayuko Tsukahara

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/97075/|title= わたしの幸せな結婚|access-date= November 25, 2022|work= eiga.com}}

The Boy and the Heron

| Great Uncle (voice)

| Hayao Miyazaki

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/98573/|title= 君たちはどう生きるか|access-date= July 14, 2023|work= eiga.com}}

rowspan=2|2024

| Samurai Detective Onihei: Blood for Blood

| Hikojū

| Tomohiko Yamashita

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/94567/|title= 鬼平犯科帳 血闘|access-date= July 31, 2023|work= eiga.com}}

Last Mile

| Akira Sano

| Ayuko Tsukahara

|

| {{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/100881/|title= ラストマイル|access-date= April 5, 2024|work= eiga.com}}

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable"|Notes

! class="unsortable"| Ref

rowspan=2|1972

| Taiyō ni Hoero!

| Kiyoshi

| Episode 5

| {{cite web |url= http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-13262|title= 太陽にほえろ!(第5回) 48時間の青春|access-date= February 2, 2024|work= TV drama database}}

Nantatte 18 sai!

| Hiroshi

| Episodes 37 and 39

| {{cite web |url= http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-12850|title= なんたって18歳!|access-date= January 30, 2024|work= TV drama database}}

1973

| Kunitori Monogatari

| Hashiba Hideyoshi

| Taiga drama

|

1975

| Nagasaki Hankachō

| Sanji

|

| {{cite web |url= http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-14748|title= 長崎犯科帳|access-date= January 26, 2024|work= TV drama database}}

1975–1976

| Tsūkai! Kōchiyama Sōshun

| Ushimatsu

|

| {{cite web |url= https://thetv.jp/program/0000008895/|title= 痛快!河内山宗俊|access-date= January 29, 2024|work= The Television}}

1977

| Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin

| Shōhachi

| Hissatsu series

|

1979

| Kusa Moeru

| Adachi Kagemori

| Taiga drama

| {{cite web |url= https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/79-taiga.html|title= 草燃える|access-date= January 24, 2024|work= Haiyaku Jiten}}

1979–1980

| The Unfettered Shogun

| Suzuhei (ep. 85), Munakata (ep. 123)

|

| {{cite web |url= http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-42204|title= 吉宗評判記 暴れん坊將軍(第85回) 富士が見ていたあばれ槍|access-date= February 3, 2024|work= TV drama database}}{{cite web |url= http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-42231|title= 吉宗評判記 暴れん坊將軍(第123回) 女親分!め組のおさい|access-date= February 3, 2024|work= TV drama database}}

1980

| Shadow Warriors

| Daihachi

|

| {{cite web|url=https://www.toei-video.co.jp/catalog/dstd07401/ |title=服部半蔵 影の軍団|date=2 May 2014 |publisher=Toei|access-date=15 December 2020}}

1982–1983

| Nemuri Kyōshirō: Engetsu Sappō

| Kinpachi

|

| {{cite web |url= https://thetv.jp/program/0000009314/|title= 眠狂四郎円月殺法|access-date= February 4, 2024|work= The Television}}

1983–1991

| Choshichiro Edo Nikki

| Tatsusaburō

|

|

1991

| Takeda Shingen

| Yamamoto Kansuke

| TV movie

| {{cite web |url= https://www.tbs.co.jp/tbs-ch/item/d1237/|title= TBS新春大型時代劇スペシャル「武田信玄」|access-date= May 9, 2020|work= TBS}}

1998–2001

| Gokenin Zankurō

| Kumezō (S3, ep. 10), Shinjurō (S5, ep. 1)

|

| {{cite web |url= http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-32356|title= 御家人斬九郎(3)|access-date= February 1, 2024|work= TV drama database}}{{cite web |url= http://www.tvdrama-db.com/drama_info/p/id-35449|title= 御家人斬九郎(5)|access-date= February 1, 2024|work= TV drama database}}

2005

| Ōoku

| Ryūkō

| Season 3

| {{cite web |url= https://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/oh-oku_hana/backnumber/505000005-7.html|title= 大奥~華の乱~|access-date= January 31, 2024|work= Fuji TV}}

2006

| Imo Tako Nankin

| Shōichi Tokunaga

| Asadora

| {{cite web |url= https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/VWL8QQPZWM/|title= 芋たこなんきん|access-date= January 26, 2024|work= NHK}}

2011

| AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

| Eda

| Season 9, episode 15

| {{cite web |url= https://thetv.jp/program/0000005812/15/|title= 第15話 相棒 Season9「もがり笛」|access-date= February 4, 2024|work= The Television}}

2018

| Anone

| Manpei Hanabusa

|

| {{cite web |url= https://thetv.jp/program/0000933394/|title= anone|access-date= February 3, 2024|work= The Television}}

2021

| Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses

| Ichirō Aoba

| Mini-series

| {{cite web |url= https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/431859|title= オダギリジョー脚本・演出のドラマ「オリバーな犬」NHKで放送、主演は池松壮亮|accessdate= June 26, 2021|work= Natalie}}

Discography

=Singles=

  • Sonomamani (1977)
  • Tazunetemo Iikai (1978)
  • Hitori (1978)
  • Ore (1980)
  • Fanny (1982)
  • Kitakaze no Naka (1982)
  • Akai Ito (1983)
  • Yume no Tsuzuki (1983)
  • Damatte Oreni Tsuitekoi (1986)
  • Gomenne (1991)
  • Omoideniserete tamaruka (1991)
  • Kotoshi no Bara (2009)
  • Akantare (2023)

=Albums=

  • Fuyuyo Koi (1977)
  • Yume Gokochi (1978)
  • Doryuzu (1981)
  • Furimuite (1983)
  • Shikōro (1983)
  • Gomenne (1991)
  • Womantachi eno Komoriuta (2009)

References

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