Kazuya Nakai

Acting · Born 1967-11-25 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Biography

Kazuya Nakai (中井 和哉, born November 25, 1967) is an award-winning Japanese voice actor and narrator who was born in Kobe, Japan. From a young age, he was interested in anime. Growing up he had interests like volleyball and archery. He was working as a civil servant in a technical field at 25 when he decided that's not how he wanted to live his life, so he enrolled into a voice acting school he attended on his days off and on weekends while still working. Despite starting his career as a narrator, he took off as a voice actor and became a big name when he got the role of Roronoa Zoro, a character he definitely wanted to voice. He narrates programs including information and news programs and voices many iconic characters such as Roronoa Zoro from One Piece, Toshiro Hijikata from Gintama,…

Filmography

• One Piece Film: Strong World as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
• One Piece: The Movie as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
• One Piece Film: Z as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
• Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain as Borma (voice)
• One Piece Film Red as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
• One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia as Roronoa Zoro / Kinoconda (voice)
• Night Is Short, Walk On Girl as Seitarō Higuchi (voice)
• One Piece Film: GOLD as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
• Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God as Kanzo Mogi (voice)
• One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island as Roronoa Zoro (voice)

TV

• Samurai Champloo as Mugen (voice)
• Battle Game in 5 Seconds as Madoka Kirisaki (voice)
• Hellsing as Jan Valentine (voice)
• One Piece as Roronoa Zoro (voice)
• Initial D as Ryuji Ikeda (voice)
• Digimon Data Squad as Gaomon (voice)
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood as Miles (voice)
• B: The Beginning as Kamui (voice)
• Gintama as Toushirou Hijikata (voice)
• Death Parade as Takashi (voice)