Kenjiro Tsuda

Kenjiro Tsuda (津田 健次郎) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, and film director. His talent agency is ANDSTIR.

Early life
Tsuda lived in Jakarta until he was seven years old. He is a graduate of Meiji University, where he majored in theater studies 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.

Career
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." He had been living in poverty to the extent of agonizing over buying even a single piece of bread, but this work became a turning point for him.

Tsuda likes both filming and watching movies. While at university, he joined a film making club. 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.)

In the same year, he made a cameo appearance in the morning drama "Yell" which became a hot topic. Since then, he has achieved success not only as a voice actor but also as an actor, appearing in works such as "Dearest" (2021), "Ōoku" (2023) and "Reversal Orchestra" (2023). In 2023, his photo book recorded second place. It is unusual for a photo book of a voice actor over 50 years old.

Private life
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 has 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.

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