Taichiro Hirokawa

Actor

February 15, 1939 (69 years)

† March 3, 2008

Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Taichirō Hirokawa (広川太一郎, Hirokawa Taichirō, February 15, 1939 – March 3, 2008) was a Japanese voice actor and narrator. He was born in Tokyo on February 15, 1939, and died on March 3, 2008, in Shibuya from cancer. Hirokawa was consistently the Japanese dubbing voice for Tony Curtis, Roger Moore, Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Michael Hui for multiple films airing on Japanese television, and various other one-time roles (e.g., Adam West, George Lazenby, Gian Maria Volonté, Gene Wilder).

Filmography

7.9

Tomorrow's Joe

Rivera Carlos

A young drifter named Joe Yabuki wanders through the slums of Tokyo, but when the local ruffians try to give him a hard time he teaches them a rough lesson with his fists. The spectacle sparks a gleam in the eye of an old drunk who happens to be watching—Danpei Tange, a failed boxer and former coach who sees something special in the boy. He pleads with Joe to train with him off, but the cocky young fighter brushes him. Later, though, when Joe is arrested and put in a juvenile detention facility, he realizes that he’s going to need to hone his raw fighting skills if he wants to survive. Thus is born a partnership that might just take Joe all the way to the top…

7.8

Space Battleship Yamato

Mamoru Kodai

Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series featuring an eponymous spacecraft. It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers. The first two seasons of this version were broadcast in Greece in 1981-82 as Διαστημόπλοιο Αργώ. An Italian-language version was also broadcast under the name Star Blazers in Italy, and a Portuguese-language version was successfully shown in Brazil under the title Patrulha Estelar and Viaje a la Ultima Galaxia or Astronave Intrepido in Spain and Latin America. It is a seminal series in the history of anime, marking a turn towards more complex serious works and influencing works such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion; Hideaki Anno has ranked Yamato his favorite anime and credited it with sparking his interest in anime. Yamato was the first anime series or movie to win the Seiun Award, a feat not repeated until the 1985 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

7.5

Juken Sentai Gekiranger

Tabu (voice)

Beast-Fist is a form of martial arts where the powers of a beast can be acquired by sensing the beast in their hearts. There are two relative schools of the Beast-Fist. One, the Beast-Fist of justice, Geki Juken Beast Arts. And one, the evil Beast-Fist of Rin Juken Akugata. The two schools of warriors learn and change in order to increase in power every day, as they are destined to clash.

7.0

Sherlock Hound

Sherlock Hound (voice)

In a steampunk London, the great detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson routinely crack the most challenging cases — perpetrated more often than not by their nemesis, the proud, bumbling genius Professor Moriarty.

6.6

Mezzo DSA

Kenichi Kurokawa (voice)

Her name is Mikura, and she’s all about service with a smile. So what if that service is cracking skulls and the smile happens to be on the other end of a loaded gun? Get ready for this chick with a killer body and vicious skills to wreak havoc and mayhem all in the name of the Danger Service Agency!

8.1

Captain Future

Curtis Newton, aka Captain Future, is an orphan. His parents died in their artificial satellite while he was an infant. His father was a scientist, who has abandoned earth for the satellite to dedicate his life for science along with his aging friend the genius Dr Simon Wright. Wright senses his death, and decides to implant his brain in a mechanical container. They both manufactured a superior robot and an android. Captain future dedicated his life to fight evil along with his three men, the brain, android, and robot.

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Zero Tester

剣持キャップ

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6.6

The Star of the Seine

Robert de Forge

La Seine no Hoshi is an anime series by Sunrise, which premiered in Japan on Fuji TV from April 4, 1975 and finished its run on December 26, 1975, spanning a total of 39 episodes. The title translates to English as "Star of the Seine" or "The Seine's Stars." It is based on Alain Delon's 1963 movie La Tulipe noire. It was created by Mitsuru Kaneko, and was directed by Masaaki Ōsumi and Yoshiyuki Tomino. It was written by Sōji Yoshikawa, while the character designer was Akio Sugino. The music for the series was composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi.

7.7

Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth

Abel (voice)

The Sun God Abel returns to life, bent on punishing the humans and cleansing Earth from their presence. When Athena joins him, leaving humans to their fate, the Bronze Saints must defend the world in their greatest battle yet.

6.5

Mezzo Forte

Kenichi Kurokawa

The target of hitgirl Mikura is a wealthy baseball team owner, but he turns out to be a powerful underworld boss. Mikura and her team are beset by countless heavily armed bodyguards and the boss' vicious daughter.

8.0

Space Battleship Yamato

Kodai Mamoru (voice)

When vile aliens known as the Gamilons wreak nuclear havoc on Earth, a group of survivors refit the Japanese battleship Yamato for intergalactic travel and set off on a mission to retrieve a neutralizer that will eradicate the radiation from Earth's atmosphere.

6.7

Lupin the Third: Pilot Film

Arsène Lupin III (voice)

The first animated adaptation of the popular manga series, this pilot introduces the main characters of "Lupin the Third" with montages, presented through a short frame narrative illustrating a typical gang escape.

6.5

Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage

Mamoru Kodai (voice)

Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict. Seems the Black Star Empire has invaded Dessler's homeworld and is decimating it, all the while gathering power for its war machine.

8.0

Sherlock Hound: The Movie

Sherlock Holmes (voice)

A collection of two theatrical rereleases from 1984 and 1986, each containing two episodes from the Sherlock Hound TV series

7.5

Captain Future: The Great Race in the Solar System

Curtis Newton/Captain Future

Captain Future and friends compete in a galactic race and end up defending themselves against aggressive competitors and evil villains out to destroy them.

7.6

Be Forever Yamato

Mamoru Kodai (voice)

The Black Nebula Empire attacks Earth and threatens to blow up the planet with a bomb they placed on Earth if counter attacked. Earths hopes rest on the Yamato crew as they go to the Black Nebula Planet and try to find a way to difuse the bomb before it's too late.

7.9

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

Michio

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting.

10.0

Sherlock Hound: Mrs. Hudson Is Taken Hostage / The White Cliffs of Dover

Holmes

In Baker City, London, the city of fog, the famous trademark Detective Holmes has a pipe as its trademark. Together with his assistant Watson, he uses his clear mind to solve difficult cases.

4.0

Lupin vs. Holmes

Arsène Lupin (voice)

The famous detective Sherlock Holmes is hired from France to solve cases linked with the famous criminal Arsène Lupin.

7.0

Red Crow and the Ghost Ship

Red Crow (voice)

A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search for an old captain. The ghost ship was designed by Hayao Miyazaki and the red crow was done by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.