Tōru Masuoka is a Japanese actor and voice actor born on August 23, 1956, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. He is a graduate of Waseda University. While he has built a substantial career as a live-action film and television actor since the mid-1980s, his work in voice acting includes several notable anime roles across film and television.

Masuoka is perhaps most widely recognized for his role as Takashi, the father in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbors the Yamadas, which was released in 1999. Directed by Isao Takahata, the film is a series of vignettes about daily family life, and Masuoka’s performance as the well-meaning patriarch is a central part of the original Japanese language version. In the 2012 anime series Space Brothers, he voiced Chōsuke Nanba, the father of the two main protagonist brothers, Mutta and Hibito. More recently, in the 2022 science fiction film Shin Ultraman, he played the role of Kunihiko Kariba.

Beyond these prominent roles, his voice acting credits from the late 1990s and early 2000s include appearances in series such as Betterman, R.O.D the TV, and Sunabōzu, often in supporting or background roles like soldiers and crew members. He has also been involved in other animated film projects, including 009 Re: Cyborg. His extensive and varied career demonstrates a versatile body of work across both voice acting and on-screen performance.