Actor: Mikijiro Hira

Mikijirō Hira played the lead in Sword of the Beast, a ronin fleeing his own clan after an assassination he was ordered to commit, and appeared in Three Outlaw Samurai.

He had a major Japanese stage career, playing Hamlet and Macbeth, and worked into his eighties. He also appeared in Kurosawa’s Ran as one of the treacherous sons.