Kazuhiro Nakata

Kazuhiro Nakata
Native name	中多 和宏
Born	March 19, 1958 Nagasaki, Japan
Occupation	Voice actor
Years active	1986–present

Kazuhiro Nakata (中多 和宏 Nakata Kazuhiro, born Kazuhiro Tanaka (田中 和宏 Tanaka Kazuhiro), March 19, 1958) is a Japanese voice actor from Nagasaki Prefecture. He is currently affiliated with Ken Production. He is best known for his roles in Legend of Heavenly Sphere Shurato (as Dappa-ō Kūya), Gear Fighter Dendoh (as Altair the Black Knight), .hack//Sign (as Bear), Initial D Fourth Stage (as Tomoyuki Tachi), Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (as Fei-Wang Reed) and Idolmaster: Xenoglossia (as Joseph Shingetsu).

History

He first became interested in the voice acting industry during his university days, when at one point he was assigned to be a chairman of a radio drama production in his school festival.

Filmography

Television animation

• Cowboy Bebop (1998) – Morgan
• Witchblade (2006) – Masaya Wado
• Demonbane (2006) – Ness
• Baccano! (2007) – Senator Manfred Beriam

Unknown date

• .hack//Roots (????) – Taihaku^[1]
• .hack//SIGN (????) – Bear
• After War Gundam X (????) – Nomoa Long
• Bleach (????) – Jiroubou Ikkanzaka, Kagine-sensei
• Detective Conan (????) – Cedar Forest Governmental Person) Tomidokoro (episode 86)
• Elemental Gelade (????) – Beazon
• Fate/stay night (????) – Sōichirō Kuzuki^[2]
• Gear Fighter Dendoh (????) – Altair the Black Knight
• Great Teacher Onizuka (????) – Hajime Fukuroda
• Grenadier ~The Smiling Senshi~ (????) – The Jester/Kaizan Doshi
• Heat Guy J (????) – Misha
• Initial D Fourth Stage (????) – Tomoyuki Tachi
• Irresponsible Captain Tylor (????) – Cryburn
• Konjiki no Gash Bell!! (????) – Toyama-sensei
• Kotencotenco (????) – The Baron
• Mahōjin Guru Guru (????) – Captain
• Mobile Fighter G Gundam (????) – Gentle Chapman
• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (????) – Rashid Kurama
• Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (????) – Duker Iq
• Naruto (????) – Shiin
• Nintama Rantarou (????) – Tamasaburō, Kuen Castella
• Outlaw Star (????) – Ron MacDougall
• Rurouni Kenshin (????) – Shikijō
• Saiunkoku Monogatari (????) – Kijin Kou
• Shaman King (????) – Karim
• Shōnen Onmyōji (????) – Byakko
• Slayers Next (????) – Halcyform
• Tsubasa Chronicle (????) – Fei Wong Reed
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX (????) – Ikaku Tachibana
• Brave Command Dagwon (????) – Demos
• Looney Tunes (????) – Marvin the Martian
• The Secret of Twilight Gemini (????) – Priest
• Rockman EXE series (Doctor Regal, Laserman, Kyuuma Hoshida
• Sakigake!! Otokojuku (????) – Kiyomi Tsubakiyama

OVA

• Armor Hunter Mellowlink (????) – Sukarupesu
• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (????) – Rashid Kurama
• Giant Robo (????) – Blood Furen
• Urotsukidoji (????) – D-9
• M.D. Geist (????) – Geist) (Director's Cut version
• M.D. Geist II: Death Force (????) – Geist
• Mazinkaiser: Shitou! Ankoku Daishogun (????) – Dante
• Phantom - The Animation (????) – Scythe Master
• The Silent Service (1995) – Harold D. Baker

Theatrical animation

• Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Special Edition (1998) – Rashid Kurama
• Rockman EXE: The Program of Light and Darkness (????) – Doctor Regal, Nebula Grey

Video games

• Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (xxxx) – Doctor N. Gin
• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (xxxx) – Doctor N. Gin
• Crash Team Racing (xxxx) – Doctor N. Gin
• Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (xxxx) – Doctor N. Gin
• Crash Nitro Kart (xxxx) – Doctor N. Gin
• Crash Twinsanity (xxxx) – Doctor N. Gin
• Ehrgeiz (xxxx) – Vincent Valentine
• Elemental Gelade: Matoe, Suifū no Tsurugi (xxxx) – Beazon
• Samurai Shodown V Special (xxxx) – Zankuro Minazuki
• Shadow of the Colossus (xxxx) – Dormin[male voice]
• Suikoden IV (xxxx) – Clay
• Super Robot Wars MX (xxxx) – Althea
• Valkyrie Profile (xxxx) – Belinas, Wraith
• Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (xxxx) – Suou Uzuki

Drama CDs

• Kao no Nai Otoko (xxxx) (Hisashi Kiriyuu)
• Manatsu no Higaisha 1 & 2 (xxxx) (Yuuichi Ookura)
• Pinky Wolf (xxxx) (Masakazu Kuroki)
• Stanley Hawk no Jikenbo ~AMBIVALENCE . Katto~ (xxxx) (Stanley)

Dubbing roles

Live-action

• Hugo Weaving
  • The Matrix – Agent Smith
  • The Matrix Reloaded – Agent Smith
  • The Matrix Revolutions – Agent Smith
• 2 Fast 2 Furious (2006 TV Asahi edition) – Carter Verone (Cole Hauser)
• Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei – André Fux (Mark Keller)
• Babylon 5 – Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare)
• Casino Royale – Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen)
• D-Tox – Noah (Robert Patrick)
• Deep Rising – Mamooli (Cliff Curtis)
• Deep Rising (2000 TV Asahi edition) – T-Ray Jones (Trevor Goddard)
• The Fast and the Furious – Johnny Tran (Rick Yune)
• High Incident – Sergeant Jim Marsh (David Keith)
• Natural Born Killers – Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson)
• Shaolin Soccer – Whirlwind Leg (Mok Mei Lam)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (2002 TV Asahi edition) – Stamper (Götz Otto)
• Twin Peaks – Tommy "Hawk" Hill (Michael Horse)

Animation

• The Batman – James Gordon (first voice)
• Codename: Kids Next Door – Mr. Fizz
• Justice League – Mongul
• Looney Tunes – Marvin the Martian

Other Japanese

• Peter Pan's Flight (Giant Octopus)

References

1. Yuki, Masahiro. "The Official Art of .hack//Roots". (May 2007) Newtype USA. pp. 101-107.
2. Oochi, Yoko. "The Official Art of Fate/stay night". (January 2007) Newtype USA. pp. 101-107.

• Katoh, Hidekazu et al. "Tsubasa - Reservoir Chronicle". (May 2007) Newtype USA. pp. 26–33.

External links

• Kazuhiro Nakata at Ken Production (Japanese)
• Kazuhiro Nakata at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kazuhiro Nakata at Ryu's Seiyuu Infos
• Kazuhiro Nakata at Foreign Drama Database (Japanese)
• Kazuhiro Nakata at the Internet Movie Database