Akira Nagoya

Akira Nagoya

Nacimiento : 1930-12-08, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Muerte : 2003-06-24

Historia

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.

Perfil

Akira Nagoya

Películas

Destination Station Series - Homicide Assignment
Chief Sakamoto
911 receives a call from a young woman reporting the death of an acquaintance at a hotel, and Detectives Ushio and Ogami of Shinjuku West Police Station rush to the scene!! The caller is eventually identified as Megumi, a woman whom Detective Ushio's wife Sumie had met by chance, but Megumi too has been killed...
Round About Midnight
Homeless Man
Koji, a jazz musician, takes a cigarette break in between sets at a Tokyo nightclub. He witnesses a murder and runs into a girl, Linda, who is being pursued by the killers. For the next two hours, Koji and Linda are running from both the hitmen and the police. Mistakenly identified as prime suspects, they have to solve the crime but time is running out: Koji has to be back to perform in his club by midnight, as a very special guest will be attending.
Yakuza Ladies 8
Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, the boss of their rival yakuza family. She has to make a decision to revenge Nagoshi.
Woman in Witness Protection
Director Hatano
Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnerable to the killers, the police assign two officers to safeguard her until the trial. In the interim, the lives of Biwako and everyone around her are changed in unexpected ways.
La princesa Mononoke
Cowherd (voice)
Tras sufrir el ataque de un monstruoso jabalí maldito, el joven Ashitaka emprende el camino en busca de la cura que detenga la infección. Mientras, los humanos están acabando con los bosques y los dioses convertidos en temibles bestias hacen todo lo posible por protegerlo encabezados por Mononoke, una princesa guerrera. Ashikata deberá escoger bando y decidir si ayudar a los hombres o las deidades intentando detener la maldición de su herida que se extiende por su cuerpo sin cuartel.
Bokyo
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
Basara: Princess Goh
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.
Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell
Narrator (voice)
The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who masterminded Ogami's fall from grace. Brilliant sword actor Takahashi Hideki takes over as the former shogunate decapitator, and his stunning swordsmanship is second to none! The story of Lone Wolf and Child has been told many times, but never before like this. With the magnificent sword skills of Takahashi Hideki as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's Decapitator and Wakayama Tomisaburo as the power hungry Lord Yagyu Retsudo the story has come full circle.
Free and Easy
Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends an elderly man named Ichinosuke Suzuki. Ichinosuke is a lonely and old man who learns to enjoy life again through his friendship with Densuke. Meanwhile, Densuke is completely unaware that Ichinosuke is the boss of his construction company. The two men become friends through their shared passion for fishing.
Kaito Ruby
Man in White Cloth
Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi moves in in the apartment upstairs. Rumi is a self-proclaimed master thief, but she needs socially awkward Toru's help to actually kickstart her so-called career.
Ellie My Love
Based on the comic by Mako Takami.
A Tale of Young Elopement
Ryuukichi
A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.
Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)
In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.
Mahjong Horoki
Jyoushuu Tora
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.
Eve in a Summer Dress
Young lovers Makiko and Hidekazu break up because of misunderstanding. Makiko flies to New Zealand and soon recovers. When she is about to marry a man who really loves her, Hidekazu suddenly appears in her life again... Between a man who loves her and a man she loves, how would Makiko's choice be?
Lullaby of Death
Following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them.
Suspicion
Iwasaki
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
Lovers Lost
Katsu-san
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
Station
Takada
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Sakio Hanamori
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
A Young Female Instructor
A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.
A Portrait of Shunkin
Zensuke(善助)
Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.
Human Revolution II
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
Invitation of Lust
Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets Masako and they begin an affair. Masako is in an unhappy marriage with Yazawa, who is also cheating on her with a younger lover. The tension builds up to an unforgiving, yet quiet climax...
Aoba shigereru
Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue.
Kandagawa
Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness of love. The two live humbly by the River Kanda, but are viewed coldly by people around them.
Ultraman Taro: Like the Sun, Mother of Ultra
Yûta Asahina
Theatrical version of episode 1 of the 'Ultraman Taro' TV series.
Kôkôsei burai hikae: Kanjirû Muramasa
Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike
Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa
Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike
The Lucky Status Symbol
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process.
Return of Ultraman: Terror of the Waterspout Monsters
Narrator
A theatrical release of The Return of Ultraman episodes 13-14. It was released on December 12, 1971 as part of the Toho Champion Festival along with Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Earth's Greatest Battle ( edited from Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and shorter versions of The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee, and The Little Match Girl.
Return of Ultraman
Narrator
Episodes 5 and 6 of Return of Ultraman show, screened at Toho Championship Festival.
Follow the Girls
Ichiro
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Ônna himitsu chosain-kuchibiru ni kakerô
Japanese crime film
Woman
La nave fantasma
Hayato's Father (voice)
La pacífica vida de Hayato con sus padres y su perro, se ve alterada cuando la ciudad es devastada por una nave fantasma, provocando una matanza en la que también pierde la vida sus padres. Antes de morir, este le rebela que él no es realmente su hijo. Hayato está ahora solo, luchando en un mundo nuevo y extraño trás el desatre. Su única meta será descubrir quien está detrás de las fuerzas misteriosas y lograr vencerlas. Lev Atamanov, aclamado animador ruso, se encargó de gran parte de la animación del film.
Las mil y una noches
Sailor (voice)
Adaptación de "Las mil y una noches". La historia se centra en Aladino, quien ama y pierde a la hermosa esclava Miriam, y en sus aventuras cambiará de nombre, llamándose Simbad. Forma parte de la trilogía "Animerama", formada por "Las mil y una noches" (1969), "Cleopatra" (1970) y "Belladonna of Sadness" (1973). Ideada por Osamu Tezuka, padre del manga/anime, la trilogia se caracterizó por dos elementos: fueron pensadas para proyectarse en pantallas de cine -algo poco común para la época- y se trataba de animación para adultos, adelantándose a obras como "Fritz the Cat" de Ralph Bakshi.
The Tempters: Smile After Tears
Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but when Shoken learns that his mother is actually his aunt and his parents died, he becomes very agitated and runs away from home.
Young Challengers
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods.
Monsieur Zivaco
Narrator
International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.
Dreams Come True at Night
Gen Kudo
Fort Graveyard
Nezu
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
Could I But Live
Could I But Live
The Dragon Crest
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
The Symbol of a Man
Saiga
In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.
El infierno del odio
Detective Yamamoto
En un momento crucial de su vida financiera, Gondo, un hombre de negocios, recibe la noticia de que su hijo ha sido secuestrado, y el rescate exigido es una cantidad de dinero similar a la que necesita para cerrar una importante negociación. Gondo está dispuesto a pagar el rescate hasta que comprende que los secuestradores se han equivocado y se han llevado al hijo del chófer. Ahora deberá decidir si el dinero es más importante que la vida del niño.
A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Primavera en Akitsu
Una joven que trabaja en unas aguas termales salva a un estudiante que quería suicidarse. Éste se enamora de la chica, encontrando un motivo para vivir.
The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Nobuko Rides on a Cloud
Driver
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was born and what the world would be like if she where never born. While in the clouds she meets her grandparents and a few other people she loved who have passed on.