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Hiro Nakamura (中村広)

Hiro Nakamura (中村広) is a fictional Japanese office worker on NBC's Heroes, played by Masi Oka, whose space-time manipulation power covers teleportation, time travel, and time-stopping. Distinct from Big Hero 6's Hiro and from Heroes Reborn's Tommy Clark.

Hiro Shimono (下野 紘)

Hiro Shimono (下野 紘, Shimono Hiro), born 1980 in Tokyo, is a Japanese voice actor and singer with I'm Enterprise. Known for Zenitsu in Demon Slayer, Connie in Attack on Titan, Dabi, and RahXephon's Ayato; MVS Seiyu Award winner and solo artist since 2016.

Hirokazu Kore-eda (是枝裕和)

Hirokazu Kore-eda (是枝裕和), born 1962 in Tokyo, is a Japanese film director and former TV documentary maker whose films include Nobody Knows, Still Walking, and Shoplifters, which won the 2018 Cannes Palme d'Or; later works include Broker, Monster, Sheep in the Box, and Look Back.

Hiromi Tsuru (鶴 ひろみ)

Hiromi Tsuru (鶴 ひろみ, Tsuru Hiromi), 1960–2017, Japanese voice actress and narrator with Aoni Production; original voice of Bulma in Dragon Ball for over 31 years, also Dokin-chan, Madoka Ayukawa, Naomi Hunter; died of aortic dissection.

Hiros

Hiros is the fifth episode of the television series Heroes, which aired in 2006. Peter Petrelli receives a message from a future Hiro Nakamura to save the cheerleader.

Hiroshi Abe's home page

Hiroshi Abe's home page (阿部寛のホームページ), abehiroshi.la.coocan.jp, is the personal website of Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe (born 1964), listing his TV drama appearances from 坂の上の雲 to VIVANT.

Hiroshi Kamiya (神谷浩史)

Hiroshi Kamiya (神谷浩史, born 1975 in Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese voice actor and singer who voices Levi in Attack on Titan and Trafalgar Law in One Piece.

Hiroshima mon amour

Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is Alain Resnais's first feature, scripted by Marguerite Duras, about a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) in Hiroshima; a France-Japan New Wave landmark that won FIPRESCI at Cannes 1959.

Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石洋之)

Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石洋之), born 1971, Japanese anime director and animator; ex-Gainax, co-founder of TRIGGER; directed Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, known for high-speed Kanada-style action.

Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村博之)

Hiroyuki Nishimura (西村博之, ひろゆき), born 1976, Japanese entrepreneur who founded the anonymous board 2channel in 1999, helped launch Niconico, and has run 4chan from Paris since 2015; now a top Japanese news influencer and political-group founder.

Hiroyuki Sanada (真田 広之)

Hiroyuki Sanada (真田広之, born 1960, Tokyo; real name Shimozawa Hiroyuki) is a Japanese actor trained in Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club, star of The Twilight Samurai and The Last Samurai, and Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning lead and producer of Shōgun (2024).

His & Hers (2026 TV series)

His & Hers is a 2026 Netflix six-episode limited series adapting Alice Feeney's 2020 novel, starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal as estranged spouses investigating a Georgia murder; created by William Oldroyd, it hit 98.2 million views.

His Dark Materials (TV series)

His Dark Materials is a BBC One and HBO fantasy series adapted by Jack Thorne from Philip Pullman's trilogy, produced by Bad Wolf, starring Dafne Keen as Lyra, across three seasons ending with The Amber Spyglass.

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday: 1940 Howard Hawks screwball comedy for Columbia, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell; a gender-flipped remake of the 1928 play The Front Page, famous for overlapping dialogue and US public-domain status since 1967.

His House

His House (2020) is Remi Weekes's debut British horror film about a South Sudanese refugee couple, Bol and Rial Majur, haunted in an English asylum house; Sundance premiere, Netflix release, BAFTA-winning debut.

His Last Vow

The His Last Vow is the final episode of Sherlock's third series. Written by Steven Moffat and directed by Nick Hurran, it pits Sherlock Holmes against Magnussen.

His Man (남의연애)

His Man (남의연애) is South Korea's first gay dating reality series, premiering July 15, 2022 on Wavve; eight gay men share a house and date to find love, across four seasons (2022–2026).

Hisaab Barabar (हिसाब बराबर)

Hisaab Barabar (हिसाब बराबर) is a 2024 Hindi comedy thriller directed by Ashwni Dhir, starring R. Madhavan as a railway ticket checker exposing banker Micky Mehta's fraud; premiered at IFFI 2024, streamed on ZEE5 from 24 January 2025.

Hisss

Hisss (Nagin: The Snake Woman) is a 2010 fantasy-horror film directed by Jennifer Lynch, starring Mallika Sherawat as a shape-shifting naagin seeking revenge when an American captures her mate; Lynch disowned the edited release, which flopped.

Historias Extraordinarias

Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Stories) is a 2008 Argentine film by Mariano Llinás: 245 minutes, three never-crossing stories of men X, Z, and H, 18 chapters, BAFICI 2008 awards, El Pampero Cine, about 30,000-dollar budget.

Historias para ser contadas

Historias para ser contadas (Stories to Be Told) is a 1956 cycle of satirical short plays by Argentine dramatist Osvaldo Dragún, premiered in Buenos Aires.

HIStory (2017 TV series)

HIStory is a Taiwanese BL anthology streaming series produced by CHOCO TV (later LINE TV), first aired February 14, 2017. Nine stand-alone units across five seasons ran to 2023; season 1 drew 3.5 million views in three months and was the first Taiwanese web drama exported to Japan.

History of adult television networks

History of adult television networks: subscription and pay-per-view channels carrying sexually explicit programming, from HBO's 1972 launch and the 1982 Playboy Channel through Playboy's Spice and Vivid acquisitions, TEN, Section 505 litigation, and later decline as streaming displaced linear adult channels.

History of animation

History of animation: from pre-cinema optical toys (thaumatrope, phenakistoscope, zoetrope) and Reynaud's 1892 Pantomimes lumineuses through silent-era pioneers, cel studio era, national traditions, television, and CGI features like Toy Story (1995).

History of anime

The history of anime, also called anime history, traces Japanese commercial animation from 1917 through milestones like Astro Boy (1963) and Spirited Away to a record ¥3.84 trillion market in 2024.

History of ballet

History of ballet: from Renaissance court dance and the 1581 Balet comique de la Royne through Louis XIV's 1669 academy, Romantic pointe work, Petipa's Russian classics, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and Balanchine's New York City Ballet.

History of Broadway theatre

Broadway is professional commercial theater in Manhattan, distinguished by a minimum capacity of 500, reaching a peak production in the 1920s after consolidating its district around Times Square.

History of cinema of India

History of Indian cinema: begins with the 1896 Lumière screening in Bombay, Phalke's Raja Harishchandra (1913), Alam Ara (1931), the studio era, parallel and regional cinemas, and today's roughly 2,000-film multilingual industry.

History of dance

History of dance: the record of human structured movement as ritual, courtship, rite of passage, protest, and art. Covers ancient Greece, India's Natyashastra, Christian dance, modern figures, and dance historiography.

History of Doctor Who

History of Doctor Who: the BBC science fiction series first broadcast 23 November 1963, created under Sydney Newman, known for the Doctor's regenerations, missing 1960s episodes, the 1989 hiatus, and the 2005 Russell T Davies revival.