Kyōzō Nagatsuka

With Nagatsuka, I always come back to the voice. Low, dry, unhurried, it can cool an entire scene without ever rising in volume. Born in Setagaya, Tokyo, in 1945 and standing 181 cm, he reportedly found his way into acting during a stretch in France rather than through the usual domestic route, and that unusual entry explains something about how he carries himself. He never looks like he is performing for the room. He is not the actor who wins a film by dominating it; he is the father, the executive, the man whose disapproval actually lands, and the scene reorganises itself around his stillness. Watching him is a lesson in how much authority lives inside restraint. Now past eighty, he belongs to a small group of actors you can recall by sound alone, which is rarer than being recognisable by face.

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Name (English)

Kyōzō Nagatsuka

Name (Japanese)

長塚京三

Reading

ながつか きょうぞう

Born

July 6, 1945 (age 81)

Origin

Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Height

181 cm

Occupation

actor / performing artist / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rooster

Blood type

O

Active years

1974 -

University

Waseda University

Spouse

既婚（離婚歴あり）

Works summary

Appearances

291 (1974–2026)

By year

1974: 2, 1975: 1, 1976: 4, 1977: 6, 1978: 4, 1979: 5, 1980: 1, 1981: 6, 1982: 7, 1983: 8, 1984: 8, 1985: 9, 1986: 5, 1987: 3, 1988: 7, 1989: 9, 1990: 3, 1991: 10, 1992: 10, 1993: 11, 1994: 6, 1995: 8, 1996: 6, 1997: 6, 1998: 3, 1999: 1, 2000: 2, 2001: 4, 2002: 5, 2003: 4, 2004: 7, 2005: 2, 2006: 4, 2007: 3, 2008: 6, 2009: 3, 2010: 1, 2011: 6, 2012: 4, 2013: 6, 2014: 2, 2015: 5, 2016: 2, 2017: 8, 2018: 2, 2019: 3, 2021: 1, 2022: 1, 2023: 1, 2024: 3, 2025: 3, 2026: 4

Debut work

パリの中国人 Les Chinois à Paris

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dz%C5%8D%20Nagatsuka
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E5%A1%9A%E4%BA%AC%E4%B8%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2028537

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• performing artist
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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