
Akira Nagoya
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 8, 1930
- Died
- June 24, 2003 (aged 72)
- Birthplace
- Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Filmography
Destination Station Series - Homicide Assignment
Movie · as Chief Sakamoto

Round About Midnight
Movie · as Homeless Man

Yakuza Ladies: Red Murder
Movie

Love Letter
Movie

Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Movie

Princess Mononoke
Movie · as Cowherd (voice)

Woman in Witness Protection
Movie · as Director Hatano
The Notorious Bored Samurai 9
Movie · as Kii Koya Bunzaemon

Bokyo
Movie

Tale of the Crane Princess
Movie

Basara: The Princess Goh
Movie

Kwaidan
Movie

Succession
Movie

Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

The Murder on the Nanki Shirahama Pendulum Train - The Beautiful Office Lady Detective and the Backseat Detective II
Movie
Sakyou Komatsu's Animation Theater
TV · as (voice) · 24 eps

Kaito Ruby
Movie · as Forensic Examiner

Free and Easy
Movie
津軽海峡殺しの双曲線 最後の青函連絡船殺人事件
TV · 1 ep
The School Cop
TV · as Daigoro Sagami · 15 eps

The Great Department Store Robbery
Movie

Ellie My Love
Movie

A Tale of Young Elopement
Movie · as Ryuukichi

An Early Autumn
TV · 1 ep

Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
Movie · as Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)

Stepsisters
TV · as Pastor Wakayama · 28 eps

Kokugo Gannen
TV · 5 eps

Ponytail Won't Look Back
TV · as Tamba · 24 eps

Mahjong Horoki
Movie · as Jyoushuu Tora
Eve in a Summer Dress
Movie

They Called Me a Bad Girl
TV · as Shusuke Tamba · 24 eps

Time and Tide
Movie

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
TV · as Kameyama, Ryōzen · 1 ep

Lovers Lost
Movie · as Katsu-san

Lullaby of Death
Movie · as Furuya

Suspicion
Movie · as Iwasaki

Stray Wolf
Movie

Murder Case: Lover Swap
TV · 1 ep

Station
Movie · as Takada

Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Movie · as Sakio Hanamori
松本清張の聞かなかった場所
TV · 1 ep
A Young Female Instructor
Movie

Prime Minister of Yuhigaoka
TV · 40 eps

A Portrait of Shunkin
Movie · as Zensuke(善助)

Human Revolution II
Movie

Love Is a Hunter
Movie · as Takano

Invitation of Lust
Movie · as Matsuoka

Oretachi no Tabi
TV · 2 eps

Kandagawa
Movie

Aoba shigereru
Movie

Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters
Movie · as Section Chief Akazawa

Ultraman Taro: Like the Sun, Mother of Ultra
Movie · as 朝日奈勇太郎

A Woman Who Warns of Death
Movie

Kōkōsei burai hikae: Kanjirū Muramasa
Movie

Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa
Movie

Ultraman Taro
TV · as Captain Yutaro Asahina · 53 eps

The Lucky Status Symbol
Movie

Hajimete no Tabi
Movie

Return of Ultraman
Movie · as Narrator

Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters
Movie · as Narrator

Follow the Girls
Movie · as Ichiro

First-Decade Boss vs. Second-Decade Staff: Mon-Fri-Fri
Movie · as Takahashi, Club Min Manager

Return of Ultraman
TV · as Narrator · 51 eps

Ônna himitsu chosain-kuchibiru ni kakerô
Movie

I Want to Sleep
Movie

Nihon Kaidan Gekijō: The Peony Lantern — Onibi no Maki / Hotarubi no Maki
Movie · as Shijō / Yamamoto Shijō

Woman
Movie

A Thousand and One Nights
Movie · as Sailor (voice)

The Tempters: Smile After Tears
Movie

Flying Phantom Ship
Movie · as Hayato's Father (voice)

Young Challengers
Movie

The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
Movie · as Shanghai Dragon

Birth of a Fighter
Movie

Monsieur Zivaco
Movie · as Narrator

Dreams Come True at Night
Movie · as Gen Kudo

Tabiji
TV · as 駅手・伊東栄吉 · 309 eps

Chivalry Broken from All Sides
Movie · as Totsuka

Fort Graveyard
Movie · as Nezu

Retirement of a Train Engineer
Movie

We Will Remember
Movie

In Tears
Movie

Taikouki
TV · as Ichikawa Daisuke · 52 eps

Sweet Sweat
Movie · as Jiro

Could I But Live
Movie · as Staff Member at Health Ministry

Sunset Hill
Movie

High and Low
Movie · as Detective Yamamoto

The Symbol of a Man
Movie · as Saiga

The Dragon Crest
Movie

Miren
Movie · as Aoshima

A Wanderer's Notebook
Movie

Akitsu Hot Springs
Movie · as Shimamura

The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
Movie

The Twilight Story
Movie

Dotanba
Movie

Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
Movie · as Driver

