Akira Nagoya
Birthday: 1930-12-08
Place of Birth: 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.
Movies
Princess Mononoke
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must jou...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknam...
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Dotanba
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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Mahjong Horoki
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges a...
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Station
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po...
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Lovers Lost
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mis...
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A Thousand and One Nights
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through ...
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The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local ...
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The Tempters: Smile After Tears
Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and hi...
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Return of Ultraman
Episodes 5 and 6 of Return of Ultraman show, screened at Toho Champion Festival....
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Lullaby of Death
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seek...
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Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters
A theatrical release of The Return of Ultraman episodes 13-14. It was released on December 12, 1971...
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Basara: The Princess Goh
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū...
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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under t...
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Round About Midnight
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into ...
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Bokyo
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauch...
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Fort Graveyard
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the las...
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Love Letter
A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married ...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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A Portrait of Shunkin
Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly sc...
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The Notorious Bored Samurai 9
The one who hurriedly ascended the castle upon hearing news of Shogun Tsunayoshi's illness was Saoto...
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Eve in a Summer Dress
Young lovers Makiko and Hidekazu break up because of misunderstanding. Makiko flies to New Zealand a...
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Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and sh...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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A Woman Who Warns of Death
A successful lyricist, Sakumaki (Yukio Ninagawa), lives with his partner Kazue (Keiko Fujita) and th...
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Flying Phantom Ship
Hayato's home city is under attack from a gigantic robot. His parents are lying dead in the rubble a...
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Sweet Sweat
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 3...
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Kandagawa
Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a ...
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Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate a...
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Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local...
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The Lucky Status Symbol
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touch...
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Kaito Ruby
Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman name...
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Invitation of Lust
Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders thro...
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Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell
The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all...
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Woman in Witness Protection
Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the b...
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A Tale of Young Elopement
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with...
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A Young Female Instructor
A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school....
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The Symbol of a Man
A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict...
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The Dragon Crest
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan....
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Young Challengers
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based...
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Destination Station Series - Homicide Assignment
911 receives a call from a young woman reporting the death of an acquaintance at a hotel, and Detect...
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Monsieur Zivaco
International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival th...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...
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Free and Easy
Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo o...
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Stray Wolf
Matoba Kokingo, who once served as a retainer for a hatamoto, becomes disillusioned with his master ...
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Time and Tide
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat....
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Sunset Hill
A yakuza falls in love with his brother's mistress while he is serving his sentence, and hides out i...
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Comedy: Love and Justice Among Cheaters
Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as pol...
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First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President: Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday
After a highway accident forces a motel stay, a company president devises a plan to create spring-ba...
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The Murder on the Nanki Shirahama Pendulum Train - The Beautiful Office Lady Detective and the Backseat Detective II
A murder occurs at the hotel where the detective father's arranged marriage meeting was held. The am...
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We Will Remember
Near the end of the war, a number of young Japanese join an army band hoping to avoid the front line...
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