Akira Nakao

Akira Nakao

Born

August 11, 1942
Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

Notable role(s)

Hiroshi Takagi, Koichiro Maeda
Takaaki Aso, Hayato Igarashi,
original Gotengo captain

First work

Yume ga Ippai Abarenbō (1962)

Notable work

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)

Akira Nakao (中尾彬, Nakao Akira) is a Japanese film, television and voice actor and television personality. Nakao has appeared in six Godzilla films from the Heisei and Millennium series, appearing as a military or government official in each role.

Selected filmography[edit | edit source]

The Vampire Doll (1970) as Hiroshi Takagi, Keiko's fiancé
Forbidden Mariko (TV 1985-1986) as Koichiro Maeda
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) as Colonel Takaaki Aso, G-Force Commander
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) as Colonel Takaaki Aso, G-Force Commander
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) as Colonel Takaaki Aso, G-Force Commander
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) as Prime Minister Hayato Igarashi, formerly Minister of Science and Technology
Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) as Prime Minister Hayato Igarashi
Godzilla Final Wars (2004) as Original Gotengo captain

Gallery[edit | edit source]

Akira Nakao as Hiroshi Takagi in The Vampire Doll
Nakao as Colonel Takaaki Aso in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Nakao as Prime Minister Hayato Igarashi in Godzilla: Tokyo SOS

Real People

Directors	Adam Wingard • Daisuke Sato • Eiichi Asada • Ernest Schoedsack • Eugène Lourié • Fuminori Ohashi • Gareth Edwards • Hideaki Anno • Hideki Oka • Hirochika Muraishi • Hiroto Yokokawa • Hiroyuki Seshita • Ishiro Honda • John Guillermin • Jordan Vogt-Roberts • Jun Fukuda • Katsuro Onoue • Kazuhiro Nakagawa • Kazuki Omori • Kazuo Sagawa • Ken Sano • Kenji Suzuki • Kensho Yamashita • Kimiyoshi Yasuda • Kiyotaka Matsumoto • Kiyotaka Taguchi‎‎ • Kobun Shizuno • Kohei Oguri • Koichi Takano • Koichi Kawakita • Koji Hashimoto • Koji Kajita • Makoto Kamiya • Masaaki Tezuka • Masaji Nonagase • Masakatsu Asai • Masahiko Katto • Merian C. Cooper • Michael Dougherty • Minoru Kawasaki • Motoyoshi Oda • Noriaki Yuasa • Norman England • Okihiro Yoneda • Peter Jackson • Roland Emmerich • Ryuhei Kitamura • Ryuichi Ichino • Sadamasa Arikawa • Sakyo Komatsu • Seiji Tani • Shinichi Kamisawa • Shinji Higuchi • Shinpei Hayashiya • Shizuo Nakajima • Shogo Kiyosu • Shusuke Kaneko • Takao Okawara • Takashi Miike • Takashi Yamazaki • Takeharu Ikebuchi • Takeshi Yagi • Teruyoshi Nakano • Tomoo Haraguchi • Tokuzo Tanaka • Tsunesaburo Nishikawa • Willis O'Brien • Yoshimitsu Banno • Yoshio Tabuchi • Yoshiyuki Kuroda • Yosuke Nakano • Yuichi Kikuchi

Producers	Brian Rogers • Daisuke Sato • Dean Devlin • Dino De Laurentiis • Eiji Tsuburaya • Eric McLeod • Ernest Schoedsack • Fumio Tanaka • Henry G. Saperstein • Hidemasa Nagata • Hiro Matsuoka • Hiroshi Aramata • Hiroto Yokokawa • J.J. Abrams • James H. Nicholson • John Beck • Jon Jashni • Kazunari Yamanaka • Keiji Ota • Mary Parent • Masaichi Nagata • Merian C. Cooper • Minoru Kawasaki • Osamu Tanaka • Reuben Bercovitch • Ritsuko Suzuki • Sakyo Komatsu • Samuel Z. Arkoff • Shinpei Hayashiya • Shizuo Nakajima • Shogo Tomiyama • Takahide Morichi • Takashi Miike • Takashi Yoshizawa • Takeo Kita • Thomas Tull • Tomoyuki Tanaka • Tsuguhiko Kadokawa • Yonejiro Saito • Yoshimitsu Banno

Writers	August Ragone • Daisuke Sato • Dean Devlin • Ei Ogawa • Eric Pearson • Eugène Lourié • Gen Urobuchi • Greg Keyes • Hideaki Anno • Hideo Unagami • Hiroto Yokokawa • Hiroyasu Yamaura • Ishiro Honda • James Stokoe • Kaoru Mabuchi • Kazuhiro Inaba • Kazuki Omori • Kazunori Ito • Ken Kuronuma • Kohan Kawauchi • Koji Kajita • Masahiro Yokotani • Matthew Costello • Masakazu Migita • Max Borenstein • Michael Dougherty • Minoru Kawasaki • Nisan Takahashi • Reuben Bercovitch • Roland Emmerich • Ruth Rose • Ryuzo Nakanishi • Sakyo Komatsu • Satoshi Nakamura • Shigeru Kayama • Shinichi Kamisawa • Shinichi Sekizawa • Shinpei Hayashiya • Steve Ryfle • Takashi Miike • Takeshi Nakazawa • Takashi Yamazaki • Takeo Murata • Terry Rossio • Tetsuro Yoshida • Tomoo Haraguchi • Toshio Yasumi • Wataru Mimura • Yukiko Takayama • Yusuke Watanabe • Zach Shields

Cinematographers	Daisuke Sato • Eiji Tsuburaya • Gareth Edwards • Hajime Koizumi • Hajime Tsuburaya • Kazufumi Fujii • Kazuo Sagawa • Keiichi Sakurai • Kenichi Eguchi • Kenya Mukai • Koichi Kawakita • Masakatsu Asai • Motoyoshi Tomioka • Sadamasa Arikawa • Seamus McGarvey • Shinpei Hayashiya • Shuzaburo Araki • Takeshi Yamamoto • Tokimaro Karasawa • Toru Matoba • Toshimitsu Oneda • Willis O'Brien • Yoichi Manoda • Yoshio Suzuki • Yuzo Kaneko

Production designers	Akihiko Iguchi • Akira Sakuragi • Daisuke Sato • Hiromasa Shirai • Hiroshi Komura • Hiroto Yokokawa • Jiro Shirasaki • Takeharu Ikebuchi • Takeo Kita • Tohl Narita • Toshiro Aoki • Yasuyuki Inoue • Yoshio Irie • Yoshio Tabuchi

Musicians and composers	Akira Ifukube • Alexandre Desplat • Bear McCreary • Chumei Watanabe • Ikuma Dan • Kenjiro Hirose • Kow Otani • Kunio Miyauchi • Masaru Sato • Masato Shimon • Michiru Oshima • Reijiro Koroku • Riichiro Manabe • Sei Ikeno • Shiro Sagisu • Shunsuke Kikuchi • Takayuki Hattori • Tom Holkenborg • XAI • Yuji Koseki

Actors	Aaron Taylor-Johnson • Akihiko Hirata • Akiji Kobayashi • Akiko Wakabayashi • Akira Kubo • Akira Nakao • Akira Takarada • Al Sapienza • Andrew Hughes • Andy Serkis • Arthur "Chico" Lourant • Asuka Shimizu • Bin Furuya • Bradley Whitford • Brie Larson • Bryan Cranston • CJ Adams • Carson Bolde • Charles Dance • Corey Hawkins • Daigo Kusano • David Strathairn • Elizabeth Olsen • Frankie Sakai • Franz Gruber • Fuyuki Murakami • Goro Mutsumi • Harold Conway • Haruo Suzuki • Hideo Unagami • Hideyo Amamoto • Hiroki Hasegawa • Hiroshi Aramata • Hiroshi Fujioka, • Hiroshi Koizumi • Hiroyuki Kawase • Hiroyuki Watanabe • Hisaya Ito • Ikio Sawamura • Ikuko Mori • Jason Mitchell • Jerry Ito • Jing Tian • Jiro Dan • John C. Reilly • John Goodman • Juliette Binoche • Jun Kunimura • Jun Tazaki • Kathy Horan • Kaori Aizawa • Katsuhiko Sasaki • Kazuya Aoyama • Ken Echigo • Ken Watanabe • Kenji Sahara • Koichi Ueda • Koichi Yamadera • Koji Fujiyama • Koji Furuhata • Koji Uruki • Kojiro Hongo • Kumi Mizuno • Kyle Chandler • Lance Reddick • Maimi Okuwa • Mamoru Miyano • Masahiro Takashima • Masaki Shinohara • Masami Nagasawa • Megumi Odaka • Millie Bobby Brown • Miwa Sasaki • Momoko Kochi • Nick Adams • Norman England • O'Shea Jackson Jr. • Osman Yusuf • Peggy Neal • Ralph Jesser • Raymond Burr • Reina Ueda • Ren Matsuzawa • Rinko Kikuchi • Robert Scott Field • Saburo Shinoda • Sally Hawkins • Samuel L. Jackson • Seiji Onaka • Norihei Miki • Shelley Sweeney • Shin Kishida • Shin Takuma • Shinobu Nakayama • Shinsuke Kasai • Shiro Sano • Shoichi Hirose • Shoichiro Akaboshi • Shoji Nakayama • Susumu Kurobe • Tadao Takashima • Takashi Shimura • Takehiro Murata • Tao Tsuchiya • Tetsu Nakamura • Thomas Middleditch • Toki Shiozawa • Tom Hiddleston • Tomokazu Sugita • Tomoko Ai • Tomonori Yazaki • Toru Ibuki • Toru Matoba • Toru Minegishi • Ulf Otsuki • William Ross • Yasuhisa Tsutsumi • Yasuko Sawaguchi • Yoshibumi Tajima • Yoshiko Tanaka • Yoshiro Kitahara • Yoshio Tsuchiya • Yukijiro Hotaru • Yukiko Kobayashi • Yuriko Hoshi • Zhang Ziyi

Voice actors	Craig Allen • Don Messick • Frank Welker • Goro Naya • Joe Ochman • Katsuhiko Sasaki • Kazuhiro Yamaji • Keith Silverstein • Kenichiro Shimamura • Kenta Miyake • Kenyu Horiuchi • Koichi Yamadera • Michihiro Ikemizu • Peter Cullen • Rik Thomas • Ryoichi Tanaka • Shinsuke Kasai • Ted Cassidy • Wataru Fukuda • William Ross

Suit/mocap actors	Akira Ohashi • Alan Maxson • Andy Serkis • Chikara Hashimoto • Fuminori Ohashi • Haruo Nakajima • Haruya Sakamoto • Haruyoshi Nakamura • Hideto Date • Hirofumi Fukuzawa • Hirofumi Ishigaki • Hiroshi Sekita • Isao Zushi • Jason Liles • Jun Suzuki • Kanta Ina • Katsumi Tezuka • Kazuhiro Yoshida • Kazunari Mori • Kenpachiro Satsuma • Kinichi Kusumi • Koetsu Omiya • Koji Uruki • Kurt Carley • Makoto Ito • Mansai Nomura • Masaki Shinohara • Masao "Little Man Machan" Fukazawa • Minoru Watanabe • Mizuho Yoshida • Motokuni Nakagawa • Naoko Kamio • Richard Dorton • Rick Baker • Rie Ota • Ryo Hariya • "Hurricane" Ryu Hariken • Shinji Takagi • Shoichi Hirose • Susumu Utsumi • TJ Storm • Tadaaki Watanabe • Takateru Manabe • Tatsumi Nikamoto • Terry Notary • Teruo Aragaki • Toru Kawai • Toshihiro Ogura • Toshinori Sasaki • Tsugutoshi Komada • Tsutomu Kitagawa • Umenosuke Izumi • Wataru Fukuda • Yumi Kameyama

Artists and designers	Akihiko Iguchi • Akira Watanabe • Akira Inoue • Carlo Rambaldi • Chiharu Sakazaki • Chris Mowry • Fil Barlow • Fuchimu Shimakura • Hideki Oka • James Stokoe • Jeff Zornow • Mahiro Maeda • Mario Larrinaga • Matt Frank • Minoru Yoshida • Noriyoshi Ohrai • Patrick Tatopoulos • Priscilla Tramontano • "Hurricane" Ryu Hariken • Shinji Nishikawa • Tohl Narita • Toshio Miike

Sculptors and modelers	Akira Yamada • Carlo Rambaldi • Daisuke Sato • Eizo Kaimai • Fumihiko Yagi • Fuminori Ohashi • Fuyuki Shinada • Hidenori Yamaoka • Kakusei Fujiwara • Kanju Yagi • Keizo Murase • Masayuki Kurahashi • Nobuhiro Ekubo • Nobuyuki Yasumaru • Norihiro "Nori" Honda • Ray Harryhausen • Rick Baker • Ryosaku Takayama • Shigeaki Ito • Shigeru Kawaguchi • Shinichi Wakasa • Teizo Toshimitsu • Tomoo Haraguchi • Tomoki Kobayashi • Yasuei Yagi • Yoshio Suzuki • Yuji Sakai

Miscellaneous	Erik Aadahl • Hideyo Sasaki • Hiroshi Mukoyama • Hisashi Shimonaga • Kanzo Uni • Kazuji Taira • Kuichiro Kishida • Kyuzo Yamamoto • Minoru Nakano • Sadao Iizuka • Satoshi Narumi • Takahide Morichi • Takashi Nakao • Yasuaki Sakamoto • Yoshitami Kuroiwa

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