Hiroki Matsukata

, better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Jūshirō Konoe and actress Yaeko Mizukawa and has a younger brother, Yūki Meguro, who is also an actor. With ex-wife actress Akiko Nishina he had two children; son Masaki Nishina and daughter Hitomi Nishina are both in the entertainment industry.

Career As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut while still in high school. His first film was 1960's for Tōei, where his father worked. He specialized in romantic leads in jidaigeki and yakuza films. But he soon switched to modern yakuza for films such as Bakuto (1964) and Showa Zankyoden (1965), and starred in Kinji Fukasaku's Blackmail Is My Life (1968).

In 1969 he switched to Daiei as a replacement for the recently deceased Raizo Ichikawa, starring in nine films including two in the Nemuri Kyōshirō series and Mission: Iron Castle, the final entry in the Shinobi no Mono series. After returning to Tōei he would appear in many more films by Fukasaku in the following decade, including three installments in the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series, Cops vs. Thugs (1975), Hokuriku Proxy War (1977), Doberman Cop (1977), Shogun's Samurai (1978) and The Fall of Ako Castle (1978). Starring opposite Bunta Sugawara in the first four and opposite Sonny Chiba in the last four.

He starred in both the original 1984 Shura no Mure and the 2002 remake. In addition, he has appeared in numerous V-Cinema titles, including what was advertised as Toei's "last yakuza movie", The Man Who Shot the Don (1994). In the 1990s he was a regular on Takeshi Kitano's Genki Ga Deru TV comedy show. On January 21, 2017, Hiroki Matsukata died due to complications from his lymphoma at 11:26 a.m., at the age of 74.

Selected filmography Film Jūnanasai no Gyakushū: Bōryoku o Buttsubuse (1960) Akō Rōshi (1961) - Ōishi Chikara The Magic Serpent (1966) - Ikazuchi-Maru Blackmail Is My Life (1968) - Shun Broken Swords (1969) - Tange Tenzen Nemuri Kyōshirō Manji Giri (1969) - Nemuri Kyōshirō Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) - Tetsuya Sakai Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) - Shoichi Fujita Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974) - Terukichi Ichioka The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) - Masayuki Ueda New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974) Cops vs. Thugs (1975) - Kenji Hirotani Gambling Den Heist (1975) Hokuriku Proxy War (1977) Doberman Cop (1977) - Kaiji Hidemori Shogun's Samurai (1978) - Tokugawa Iemitsu The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) - Denhachiro Tamon Sanada Yukimura no Bōryaku (1979) - Sanada Yukimura Nichiren (1979) - Hōjō Tokimune Theater of Life (1983) - Hishakaku Shogun's Shadow (1989) The Yagyu Code: Secret Scroll (1990) The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades (1990) The Yagyu Code 3: Conspiracy in Kyoto (1991) The Yagyu Code 4: A Duel of Conviction (1991) Edo Jō Tairan (1991) The Man Who Shot the Don (1994) - Horai Agitator (2001) Thirteen Assassins (2010) - Kuranaga Saheita Koitanibashi (2011) Ninja Kids!!! (2011) - Happōsai Hieta Gal Basara: Sengoku Jidai wa Kengai Desu (2011) - Oda Nobunaga Unsung Hero (2014) - Himself

Television Katsu Kaishū (1974) - Katsu Kaishū Akō Rōshi (1979) - Tsuchiya Chikara Ōoku (1983) Meibugyō Tōyama no Kin-san (1988–98) - Kin-san Tokugawa Fūunroku Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune (2008) - Tokugawa Mitsusada Tenchijin (2009) - Tokugawa Ieyasu Yae's Sakura (2013)

Video games Matsukata Hiroki no Super Trawling (Himself) (Super Famicom) (1995) Matsukata Hiroki no World Fishing (Himself) (PlayStation, Sega Saturn) (1996) Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! (柳生 石舟斎 Yagyū Sekishūsai) (PlayStation 3) (2008)