Akira Nagoya
Born: 1930-12-08 in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2003-06-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
Akira Nagoya was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator who specialized in playing comical roles. He's well know for playing Yūtarō Asahina in the Tokusatsu superhero series Ultraman Taro. After graduating from junior high school in 1949, he entered the Tokyo Broadcasting Company (NHK) training school as a third-year student. His classmates included Hisashi Katsuta and Kazue Takahashi, who later became active as voice actors. In 1959, he joined the Bungakuza theatre company; in 1963, he participated in the founding of the theatre company Kumo. When Kumo disbanded in 1975, he moved on to work as a freelance theatre artist, appearing on stages such as Jijinkai and Komatsuza.
Filmography
2001
- Destination Station Series - Homicide Assignment as Chief Sakamoto
1999
- Round About Midnight as Homeless Man
- Yakuza Ladies: Red Murder
1997
- Princess Mononoke as Cowherd (voice)
- Woman in Witness Protection as Director Hatano
1994
- The Notorious Bored Samurai 9 as Kii Koya Bunzaemon
1989
1988
- Kaito Ruby as Forensic Examiner
- The School Cop as Daigoro Sagami
- Free and Easy
- 津軽海峡殺しの双曲線 最後の青函連絡船殺人事件
- ザ・スクールコップ
1987
1986
- Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth as Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)
1985
- Ponytail Won't Look Back as Tamba
- Stepsisters as Pastor Wakayama
- Kokugo Gannen
1984
- They Called Me a Bad Girl as Shusuke Tamba
- Mahjong Horoki as Jyoushuu Tora
- Eve in a Summer Dress
1983
1982
- Lovers Lost as Katsu-san
- Suspicion as Iwasaki
- Murder Case: Lover Swap
- Lullaby of Death as Furuya
- Stray Wolf
1981
- Station as Takada
1980
- Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely as Sakio Hanamori
1979
1976
- Human Revolution II
- A Portrait of Shunkin as Zensuke(善助)
- Love Is a Hunter as Takano
1975
- Oretachi no Tabi
- Invitation of Lust as Matsuoka
1974
- Aoba shigereru
- Kandagawa
- Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters as Section Chief Akazawa
1973
- Ultraman Taro as Captain Yutaro Asahina
- Kōkōsei burai hikae: Kanjirū Muramasa
- Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa
- Ultraman Taro: Like the Sun, Mother of Ultra as 朝日奈勇太郎
- A Woman Who Warns of Death
1971
- Return of Ultraman as Narrator
- Return of Ultraman as Narrator
- Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters as Narrator
- First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri as Takahashi, Club Min Manager
- Hajimete no Tabi
- Follow the Girls as Ichiro
1969
- A Thousand and One Nights as Sailor (voice)
- Flying Phantom Ship as Hayato's Father (voice)
- Woman
- The Tempters: Smile After Tears
1968
1967
- Tabiji as 駅手・伊東栄吉
- Dreams Come True at Night as Gen Kudo
- Birth of a Fighter
- Monsieur Zivaco as Narrator
- The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding as Shanghai Dragon
1966
- Chivalry Broken from All Sides as Totsuka
1965
- Taikouki as Ichikawa Daisuke
- Fort Graveyard as Nezu
- We Will Remember
- Retirement of a Train Engineer
- In Tears
1964
- Sweet Sweat as Jiro
- Sunset Hill
- Could I But Live
1963
- High and Low as Detective Yamamoto
- The Dragon Crest
- The Symbol of a Man as Saiga
1962
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Shimamura
- A Wanderer's Notebook
1960
1956
1955
- Nobuko Rides on a Cloud as Driver