Hideo Takamatsu was born on October 24, 1929 in Nagaoka-gun, Kochi, Japan as Tetsuro Takeichi. He was an actor, known for The Last Emperor (1987), Kyojin Ôkuma Shigenobu (1963) and Shogun (1980). He died on February 26, 2007 in Kanagawa, Japan.