Actor Hirotaro Shiga died 71 years old Popular as a supporting role April 30 11:25

Hirotaro Shiga, an actor who has performed a wide variety of roles in numerous dramas and movies and has become popular as a supporting role, died on the 20th of this month due to false pneumonia. I was 71 years old.

Mr. Shiga is from Hyogo prefecture, and after he was 40 years old, he joined the theater group "Seinendan" led by Oriza Hirata and acted as an actor mainly on the stage.

After that, the individual acting that he showed in the commercials and dramas that he appeared in became a topic, and he was active in numerous dramas and movies as a supporting role that plays a wide range of roles.

He has also appeared in NHK's serial TV novels and taiga dramas, such as "Toto-neechan" that was broadcast in 2016, and recently played a leading role in supporting the president of Tabi-kuya in the commercial drama "Rikuo." It was

In addition, I have been making efforts to cultivate the junior high school, such as being a part-time lecturer at Toho Gakuen College of Arts for a long time since 1978.

Shiga developed a cerebral infarction last April and was hospitalized urgently, and then continued rehabilitation, but according to his office, on the 20th of this month, due to false aspiration pneumonia at a nursing facility in Kawasaki City. It means that he died. I was 71 years old.