Hideo Takamatsu (高松英郎) was born on October 24, 1929 in Nagaoka-gun, Kochi, Japan as Tetsuro Takeichi (武市 哲郎). He was an actor, known for El último emperador (1987), Shogun (1980) and A Wife Confesses (1961). He died on February 26, 2007 in Kanagawa, Japan.