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, better known by his stage name , is a Japanese actor. He is 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 has 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 ''Jyunanasai no Gyakushu: Boryoku o Buttsubuse'' 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 Ichikawa Raizo VIII, starring in many films. On 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), ''The 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.〔 His television credits include ''Ōedo Sōsamō'' (1979 to 1984), the title role in ''Meibugyō Tōyama no Kin-san'' (1988–1998), the lead character Yaguchi Mansaku in ''Hadaka no Deka'', and one of the central characters in ''Hotel''. He played Ōishi Kuranosuke in the 1994 TBS ''Daichūshingura''. Matsukata also appeared as a guest voice actor in the NHK anime series ''Agasa Kuristii no Mei Tantei Powaro to Maapuru'' ("Agatha Christie's Famous Detectives Poirot and Marple"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hiroki Matsukata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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