Isshin Chiba

is a Japanese voice actor who appeared in 35 films since he first started acting in 1990 and is best known for doing the voice of Jin Kazama from the Tekken series.

Biography Isshin Chiba was born in Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan. He graduated from Miyagi Prefecture Kesennuma High School. After graduating from high school, he had the idea to become a stage actor. However, because he had no experience in such extracurricular activities in particular, he attended Katsuma Voice Actor's Academy in Tokyo. He started his career as a voice actor at age 22 in 1990. In 1997, he landed the role for which he is best known, the role of Jin Kazama from the Tekken fighting game series. Starting from Tekken 3, he voiced Jin in all other Tekken games, including crossovers Namco × Capcom, Street Fighter X Tekken, Project X Zone, Project X Zone 2, The King of Fighters All Star and adaptations Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Tekken: Bloodline and the Japanese dub of the live-action Tekken film. This makes Isshin Chiba the fifth single actor playing a videogame character the longest, behind Ed Boon, who voices Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi who voices Kage Maru from Virtua Fighter, Shin-ichiro Miki who voices Akira Yuki from Virtua Fighter, and Joseph D. Kucan, who voices Kane from Command & Conquer.

Filmography Television animation

Movies Big Wars (1993) – Operator Detective Conan: Captured In Her Eyes (2000) – Detective Chiba Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves (2001) – Crow Guard Detective Conan: Countdown to Heaven (2001) – Detective Chiba Rockman EXE Hikari to Yami no Program (2005) – Barrel Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem (2006) – Officer Chiba Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2011) – Jin Kazama Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan: The Movie (2013) – Detective Chiba Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Sword Of Life And Death (2017) – Tie Di Xian Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom (2024) – Arnold Neumann

OVA Please Save My Earth (1993) – Takashi Matsudaira Fencer of Minerva (1994) – Harif Detective Conan: Conan and Heiji and the Vanished Boy (2003) – Yousuke Moriguchi

Video games columns-list|colwidth=30em| Magical Drop II (1996) – Magician Street Fighter III: New Generation (1997) – Sean Matsuda Tekken 3 (1997) – Jin Kazama Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (1997) – Jedah Dohma Street Fighter III 2nd Impact: Giant Attack (1997) – Sean Matsuda Rival Schools: United by Fate (1997) – Kyosuke Kagami Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (1997) – Judah Singh Tekken Revolution (2013) – Jin Kazama The Evil Within (2014) – Joseph Oda Dragon Ball Xenoverse (2015) – Time Patroller - Male 6 Tekken 7 (2015) – Jin Kazama Project X Zone 2 (2015) – Jin Kazama Scarlet Nexus – Fubuki Spring