Ben Hiura

Ben Hiura

Nascimento : 1943-01-25, Tokyo, Japan

História

Ben Hiura (born January 25, 1943) is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. He is the Official Japanese dub-over voice artist for Robin Williams.

Perfil

Ben Hiura

Filmes

Crazy Samurai Musashi
Em 1604, Miyamoto Musashi atacou a família Yoshioka em seu dojo e derrotou o mestre Seijūrō e seu irmão mais novo Denshichirō em dois duelos. Para salvar sua reputação, a família Yoshioka decide revidar com todos os 100 membros da família e contratar mais 300 samurais. Agora Musashi se propõe a derrotar todos os 400 inimigos em sua batalha mais famosa.
Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
Ichizo
Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.
Alien vs. Ninja
Iga Master
A comet crashes into a Japanese forest and a group of mighty ninjas must fight a group of killer Aliens before they reach their village and kill everyone.
red letters
A mysterious thriller developed by secret love-hate play around women captured in ruins.
Submarine 707 Revolution
Youhei Hayami
A high-tech terrorist plagues the ocean... To counter the subversive activities of the USR, a shadowy terrorist group menacing the seas, the leading nations of the world join forces to form the Peace Keeping Navy (PKN). Its inauguration ceremony, however, quickly turns into disaster as Admiral Red, charismatic leader of the USR, launches a surprise attack on the PKN. With fi erce fi repower, Red lets his intentions be known that he will destroy anything that gets in the way of his twisted vision of an ideal future... Dive into this exciting deep-sea military action-adventure thriller, as Captain Hayami and the crew of the 707 try to outwit Admiral Red's gargantuan nuclear submarine!
Death Trance - O Samurai do Apocalipse
Archbishop
Um filme de extrema ação e fantasia que retrata batalhas sem fim entre armas e espadas, mortal e imortal, mito e realidade. Em um local e em um tempo desconhecido, o mestre samurai Grave procura por sua batalha final. Sem temer nenhuma luta, Grave é o único guerreiro capaz de roubar o lendário e misterioso caixão do Templo Sagrado de Tougan. Nesse mundo sem razão, uma garota do templo segue Grave e o caixão por onde eles forem. É então que se inicia uma corrida mortal para recapturar o caixão e seu poder secreto das mãos de Grave. No final, irá vencer a destruição ou prevalecerá a esperança?
Zatoichi
Tavern Gramps
Japão, século 19. Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano) é um andarilho cego que sobrevive como massagista e jogador de cartas, mas por trás de sua aparência humilde esconde-se um espadachim de raro talento. Numa de suas andanças ele chega a uma aldeia dominada pelo sanguinário bandoleiro Ginzo (Ittoku Kishibe), que, com a ajuda do samurai Hattori (Tadanobu Assano), seu capanga, elimina quem se oponha a seus objetivos. O embate entre Zatoichi e a quadrilha de Ginzo torna-se inevitável quando o cego conhece duas gueixas que desejam vingar a morte dos pais.
Riot in Gujo
Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his father is played by Go Kato and Ryuzo Hayashi plays a leader of the Riot. The Riot in Gujo is called one of the biggest three riots in the Edo Period as it took almost 5 years to settle and also involved the Edo government. This movie is a period film about the riot and Gujo farmers fighting for their tenacity of purpose. The farmers had suffered enough from heavy taxes and decided to rise up in riot when the domain lord, Yorikane, issued a new act, which practically forced tax increases. Asking the lord to retract the act, they pour down to the Hachiman Castle. For once they attain the repeal deed signed by the chief retainer. However the promise is broken. Now the farmers decide to make a direct plea to the Edo Residence…This film is full tension and breathless moments.
Dr. Fígado
Na véspera da rendição japonesa, em 1945, Akagi, o médico local de uma povoação costeira de uma das ilhas japonesas, decide tomar uma posição firme para preservar a sua integridade profissional. Está preocupado com o crescente número de casos de hepatite e junta-se aos seus antigos companheiros, um monge dissoluto e um cirurgião niilista viciado em morfina, todos à margem da sociedade militar japonesa. Sonoko, uma rapariga selvagem, adere ao grupo como enfermeira. Tornou-se responsável pelos irmãos desde a morte dos pais e, por vezes, ganha dinheiro como prostituta. Mas ao trabalhar com Akagi o seu destino muda: apaixona-se pelo estranho médico e quer passar com ele o resto da sua vida.
Thousand Cranes
April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the American Base Victory Hospital, where the diagnosis is lymphatic leukemia. And she has no more than a year left to live. Her parents agree with the doctor that Sadako should not be told, but will she find out anyway ?
The Forest of the Little Bear
Hunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo decides to raise the cub, but the bear later becomes a troublemaker.
Have You Seen the Barefoot God?
Ryozo Yoshimura
2 almost inseparable friends. The talented painter recognized by all decided to leave the town where they live and become an artist and the shy poet who only sees his future in his mother's business.
Blue Jeans Memory
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The three decide to help her.
Nurse's Husband
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on the first night after her marriage. Ten years later, the married couple is still at it. Yauso tends to the house and their children, while Keiko sacrifices family life for life as an overworked nurse. One day, after Keiko comes home utterly exhausted and dejected from her work, Yasuo makes up his mind and writes a letter of resignation in her place. Upon learning of this, Keiko angrily declares that nursing is what she lives for and she will keep on working. Realising that that is one battle he will never win, Yasuo sends a letter to a newspaper -- “Nurses’ husbands, aren’t you having a hard time? Get together nurses’ husbands. Contact me.” There is a tremendous response. This leads to the formation of many unions of nurses’ husbands throughout the country.
Utamaro's World
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.
Which Is Stronger, Karate or the Tiger?
Yasuaki Kurata plays a masked ring brawler who is out for revenge against an evil, megalomaniac entrepreneur played by Japan's most reliable bad guy of the '70's, Masashi Ishibashi.
The Black Battlefront Kidnappers
Kyô Kazama
A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.
Tirania
Rokuzo
Um grupo de samurais mata todos os moradores de uma vila de pescadores. O samurai Magobei (Tatsuya Nakadai), indignado, abandona o clã, a esposa e a cidade onde morava. Três anos depois, os samurais do clã planejam um massacre semelhante e decidem matar Magobei para silenciá-lo. A partir daí começa o acerto de contas entre o clã e o ex-samurai.
The Deserted Archipelago
A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.
When Twilight Draws Near
Bored by the emptiness of everyday life, four students gather to play dangerous games in an apartment.
Kill!
Busuke
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
The Age of Assassins
Hide
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.
Fort Graveyard
Yoshino
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.