Kenjiro Tsuda

Kenjiro Tsuda
is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and film director. His talent agency is ANDSTIR.
Biography
Tsuda lived in Jakarta until he was seven years old. He is a graduate of Meiji University, where he studied theater literature in the department of literature; originally, he had considered wanting to make films as a movie director, when he also had an interest in the field of performing. At the En • Theater Research Institute, he took and passed a non-degree course, being enthusiastic about theater work.
After his graduation from a trading school, Tsuda had belonged to a theatre group office. In so doing, there was talk of auditions, and Tsuda made his debut in voice acting as Atsushi Noda in the 1995 animated television series "H2." Since then, Tsuda's work has centered around voice acting, as he's worked in theater, television dramas, and movie appearances, among others; furthermore, he has been active at many levels, including as a narrator and radio personality, in television programs, commercials, and the like.
Tsuda likes both filming and watching movies. He began attending movie theaters in junior high; though he had watched old Western movies until senior high and focused on artistic films after entering college, fundamentally his interest lies, evidently, in non-genres.
In 2017, when Keiji Fujiwara was recovering from illness, Tsuda took charge as a substitute actor for a few roles (those of Isami Enomoto in "Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love," Hannes in "Attack on Titan").
On February 2, 2019, Tsuda debuted as a film director with his release of "Documentertainment AD-LIVE" (the term being a portmanteau of "documentary" and "entertainment").
On November 24, 2020, "Actor's Short Film" — a project launched by WOWOW to commemorate the station's 30th year since its opening: Five actors (facing the same conditions, such as budget and time) would individually direct short films up to 25 minutes long each; one of those five films will be chosen, based on the votes of viewers and film critics, to be presented at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia held in 2021 — was announced on Twitter; Tsuda took part with his own short film, "GET SET GO," which cast actors Ryou Ryuusei and Shunsuke Daitou. As the film's director and screenwriter, Tsuda also made an appearance in the film as an actor. On January 13, 2021, distribution of these five films began.
Marriage
Tsuda married a woman he encountered around when he was starting out as a stage actor (she is not a celebrity, as Tsuda mentioned it in his Instagram announcement), and currently is the father of two children. By not officially announcing his marriage, Tsuda thought, he could protect his family's safety; another reason for this approach is the large appeal that Tsuda's favorite actors have carried as figures who have not displayed their private lives — he, too, had thoughts of wanting to become an expressive person like that, so he hadn't made his getting married public. However, in July 2020, he received notice that a news story about his marriage had been published in one section of a weekly magazine (Shūkanshi) and decided to bring these facts to light via his Instagram.
Appearances
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Animated television series
Animated movies
Original Net Animation (ONA)
Original Video Animation (OVA)
Dubbing
Actor in charge
Movies
Dramas
Animation
Stage (theatre)
Television dramas
Movies
Original videos
Games
Drama CDs
Digital comics
Tokusatsu
Narration
Radio
Video products
Publications
Other
Discography
Character songs
Footnotes
Annotation
Unit Members
References
External links
Official website
Official Twitter (@tsuda_ken) (in Japanese)
Official Instagram (@2_da_ken) (in Japanese)
1971 births
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
Best Actor Seiyu Award winners
Japanese male musical theatre actors
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Living people
Male voice actors from Osaka Prefecture
Seiyu Award winners
Stardust Promotion artists