Akira Kubo

Akira Kubo is one of those actors I came to through a very specific rabbit hole — late-night Toho tokusatsu marathons — and never quite left. Born in 1936 and trained at Rikkyo University, he spent a good chunk of the 1960s as the earnest young hero running around Toho sets while men in rubber suits demolished miniature cities around him. Son of Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters, Matango — he showed up in some genuinely wild genre corners of Japanese cinema and held the screen with a kind of clean, understated sincerity that could have easily curdled into woodenness but never did. There's something quietly admirable about a guy who committed fully to a genre the critics of his day weren't exactly lining up to praise. Showa-era Toho built entire worlds on actors like him, and those films hold up way better than their reputation suggests.

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Akira Kubo is a Japanese actor born on December 1, 1936, in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Rikkyo University and is known for his work in film. He is recognized as a film actor active in the Japanese entertainment industry.

Name (English)

Akira Kubo

Name (Japanese)

久保明

Reading

くぼ あきら

Born

December 1, 1936 (age 89)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Actor / Film Actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rat

Active years

1952 -

University

Rikkyo University

Works summary

Appearances

102 (1952–2019)

By year (titles with a known year)

1952: 1, 1953: 2, 1954: 3, 1955: 2, 1956: 1, 1957: 4, 1958: 1, 1959: 8, 1960: 2, 1961: 1, 1962: 3, 1963: 2, 1964: 3, 1965: 2, 1966: 4, 1967: 3, 1968: 5, 1969: 3, 1970: 2, 1971: 2, 1973: 3, 1974: 1, 1975: 3, 1976: 1, 1977: 1, 1978: 2, 1979: 1, 1980: 3, 1981: 1, 1982: 3, 1983: 1, 1985: 2, 1986: 2, 1987: 3, 1988: 1, 1990: 2, 1994: 1, 1995: 1, 1996: 1, 1997: 1, 1998: 1, 1999: 2, 2003: 1, 2008: 1, 2019: 1, year unknown: 8

Debut work

思春期

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%85%E4%BF%9D%E6%98%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q418778

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Actor
• Film Actor

Last updated

September 24, 2026

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