Kaneta Kimotsuki

was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and theater director. He was also the founder of theater troupe 21st Century FOX

He was best known for the roles of Suneo Honekawa in Doraemon, Iyami in Osomatsu-kun, the Conductor in Galaxy Express 999, Horrorman in Let's Go! Anpanman, Takeshi "Gian" Gōda in Doraemon, Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) in Perman, Kemuzō Kemumaki in Ninja Hattori-kun, Sir Great Britain in Cyborg 009, Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio, Benzou Karino in Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, Quackerjack in Darkwing Duck, and Tom in Tom and Jerry.

Biography Early life Kimotsuki was born on November 15, 1935, as a descendant of the Kimotsuki clan in Kiire, Kagoshima Prefecture, Empire of Japan (which later became Kiire Town, and is now Kiire Town, Kagoshima City).

He then grew up in Itabashi, Tokyo.

At the time, he was a quiet, timid child, so the scene of being tearfully separated from his parents while being put on a train was etched to his mind forever. From the first night he arrived, he cried for his parents, who were back in Tokyo. At that time, he dreamed of becoming a movie actor and auditioned twice.

In his second year of junior high, he went to audition for director Keisuke Kinoshita's film Boyhood and was able to clear the second round. With a massive boost in confidence, Kimotsuki traveled to Ōfuna for a camera test in the snow, but he was unsuccessful. The child actor who was ultimately chosen went on to become an actor. Kimotsuki said in a 1999 interview that sometime later he saw that same person on a variety show where they said they were burdened with many debts, to which seeing it made him realize how tough it was being a star and that he was ultimately glad he didn't win the part in the end.

To take his mind off things, Kimotsuki often listened to radio dramas. One day, when he went to watch a public recording of The Fountain of Stories on NHK, he thought he could work at the place it was performed, and that was the spark that made him aspire to become a film actor. His idol was actor Kenichi Enomoto. But his grandmother told him he didn't have the looks to become a film actor, which made him decide to instead aim to perform voice acting in radio dramas.

He went to Teikyo Junior and Senior High School, After performing Junji Kinoshita's play Twilight Crane, Kimotsuki decided to pursue an acting career.

Career

After Kimotsuki completed high school, he gave up attending university due to the death of his father. He applied for the fourth class of Radio Tokyo (now TBS) Broadcasting Troupe but was unsuccessful, as instead he joined the Shichiyōkai Theater Company while working at Takashimaya. While working for Takashimaya, he joined theater troupe Shichiyōkai. At the time, Shichiyōkai worked with NHK, which caused Kimotsuki to start making appearances in NHK's radio dramas. To solidify his personal resolve to make a living as an actor, he decided to leave Takashimaya. However, even after he made his debut as a voice actor, he was short on money, so he gathered some friends and established his own travel agency. At the same time, he juggled several part-time jobs as a tour escort, banquet MC, shoe shiner, and dentist. After Shichiyōkai disbanded, he auditioned and was accepted as part of the opening performance at the Nissay Theatre alongside Takeshi Aono. Following a stint with the theater troupe Sakuhinza, which had split from the Shichiyōkai, Kimotsuki was invited to join a company that was established by Koichi Chiba, who was a former member of the TBS Broadcasting Theater Troupe and was recruiting actors.

Kimotsuki's affiliated production companies throughout his career were Kiri no Kai , Ezaki Office , Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society , Production Baobab , and even his own company 21st Century FOX. As of February 2016, he was affiliated with 81 Produce. He had also been previously affiliated with Office Boro and Winner Entertainment.

His feature film debut was in When the Kobushi Flowers Bloom. At the time, he was still a theater troupe trainee and was credited under his birth name, Kanemasa Kimotsuki, playing a young barber. Aside from this, he also was in the pornographic film Woman of Shame, but both movies are his only appearances as an actor in live-action feature films.

His radio drama debut was in Women's Hour where he played an errand boy working for a dry cleaner. He had only two lines, but since everything was broadcast live back then, he remembered the tension performing his lines all the way until his death.

His voice acting debut was as a member of a motorcycle gang in the drama District Attorney. When he first appeared in an anime, he had already done dubbing for children's dramas, so he found it easy to match with the dialogue. Motivated by his strong desire to pursue theater work as an actor, Kimotsuki found the script for Kitamura's Eleven Boys at Kinokuniya and wanted to perform a play using it. He obtained permission to do so, gathered people from the training school where he was teaching, and in September 1983, left both Garakuta Kobo and Production Baobab in order to start his theatre company 21st Century FOX.

The original members of 21st Century FOX included Takeru Miyashita, Matsuo Matsuo, Kei Hayami, and Kumiko Nishihara, with Kappei Yamaguchi joining shortly after. Within the troupe, Kimotsuki directed and structured productions, also serving as a mentor and would train younger actors. In 2008, the troupe celebrated its 25th anniversary by holding a commemorative performance in December that year that featured former members like Kentaro Ito.

In 1985, from November to December, he was hospitalized for vocal cord throat surgery. His roles as Suneo Honekawa in Doraemon and Hakase in Obake no Q-Tarō were temporarily filled in by Naoki Tatsuta. Fearful of his voice becoming clean after the surgery, the laryngeal polyp was crushed using tweezers.

Awards

In 2005, Kimotsuki received the Rikiya Tayama Award at the 14th Japanese Movie Critics Awards alongside his Doraemon co-stars Nobuyo Ōyama, Noriko Ohara, Michiko Nomura, and Kazuya Tatekabe. The following year in November 2006, they received a Special Award at the 11th Animation Kobe. And in March 2007, they received the 3rd Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tokyo International Anime Fair.

In 2012, Kimotsuki received the Merit Award at the 6th Seiyu Awards.

Final years

In 2010, Kimotsuki was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Around May 2016, his physical health started to worsen, and he was diagnosed with pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo. He was hospitalized for tests several times and continued his voice acting career after being discharged, but his condition worsened even further by October that year.

Death

Kimotsuki died from pneumonia on October 20, 2016, at the age of 80.

His grave is currently located at Tsukiji Hongwanji Nishitama Cemetery in Akiruno, Tokyo.

Posthumous releases & legacy

His last acting appearance was in an episode of the NHK Radio program Radio Midnight for the segment Series: Voices that Created an Era which broadcast on November 6, 2016; his dialogue having been recorded on September 19, one month before he died.

In January 2017, Kimotsuki was ranked 23rd place in a special program Popular Voice Actors 200 Seriously Choose! Voice Actor General Election! 3-Hour Special, which broadcast on TV Asahi.

In November 2019, Jajamaru from Niko Niko Pun appeared in the NHK family concert Let's Go On The Mysterious Train, held to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Okaasan to Issho, but with no replacement voice actor available, archive audio of Kimotsuki's lines for Jajamaru were used.

Personality

Being the third son out of six children , Kimotsuki got married at the age of 24 and had a son and a daughter.

Features

His voice range was tenor.

Kimotsuki's voice had been considered distinctive since childhood, but he himself only realized it was unique after he started voice acting. In high school, he played leading roles for the radio drama club and thought he had a good voice. After joining the Tokyo Broadcasting Theater Company, he thought he wanted to play leading roles in radio dramas, but decided not to do so.

As he had been active since the early days of Japanese animation, Kimotsuki's voice acting roles generally consisted of bully leaders, grandpas, and grandmas, none of them being good lookers, but supporting characters.

Kimotsuki was asked to perform the theme song for Jungle Kurobē, but the song’s tempo was too fast for him, so Kumiko Ōsugi performed instead. Later on down the line, when voicing Jajamaru in Niko Niko Pun, he normally sang about 2,000 songs, with a pace of three episodes a week. He recalled that while he was singing, he gradually learned the rhythm, but that the first two or three years doing so were very difficult.

In The Monster Kid, the monster trio of Count Dracula, Wolfman, and Franken perform the song "We Are the Monster Trio". However, the voice actors of the characters, consisting of Kimotsuki, Takuzo Kamiyama, and Tarō Sagami respectively, were tone-deaf in singing, which composer Asei Kobayashi had an extremely difficult time working with.

For foreign film dubbing, he provided the Japanese dub voice for Woody Allen and Jerry Lewis in several works.

In Disney films, he voiced Donald Duck. Takuya Fujioka, the Japanese dubbing actor of Donald until he took over, became busy doing film and television dramas, so Kimotsuki took over as his official replacement.

About his works

He has appeared in almost all works based off the stories written by the Fujiko Fujio duo, with his first role in a Fujiko Fujio anime being the character Godzilla in the 1965 adaptation of Obake no Q-Tarō.

At the time, child roles were almost exclusively done by female voice actors like Michie Kita and Masako Nozawa, and there were few characters with strong personalities. He was left unsure if he could actually pull off portraying a young character. He later stated that up until then, he felt like all that he did was done half-heartedly, he wasn't succeeding as an actor, and even when playing roles, he couldn't fully immerse himself and become the character. Previously, improvisations weren't accepted, as he had been told to just stick to what was written in the scripts.

After breaking through with Godzilla in Q-Tarō, he started getting more child character roles. Works by Fujiko he didn't appear in include Chimpui and Mojako.

For Jungle Kurobē, he originally auditioned for the role of Kurobē's father. When he was informed the part had been settled on, he thought he got the role, but was instead cast as the main protagonist. Recording was hard and extremely grueling, as he had to raise his voice constantly, which exhausted him.

Several ad-libs Kimotsuki made in the roles he portrayed became part of the character's established traits or a signature line of theirs, such as Tsutomu's dialect in Kiteretsu Daihyakka, Suneo's line “You're so cheeky for someone like Nobita!” in Doraemon , and the line "Ossu!! It's Jajamaru-san!“ in Niko Niko Pun.

The role that made Kimotsuki realize he was suited to manga was the aforementioned Donald Duck, for he didn't have many script lines and mainly improvised. He realized he was suited to the field of work when he performed at the original tempo without breaking the storyline. Later on, when he appeared in Let's Go Hector, he felt that "fast-paced roles like anime would be better," which gave him the confidence needed and led to him receiving more voice acting roles. , who initially portrayed the character with a serious, conscientious image, but upon finding out the truth, he remarked, "If I had known from the beginning that he was a blank slate, I wouldn't have been able to play the role" before laughing.

He often appeared as a voice actor in the numerous television adaptations of manga artist Fujio Akatsuka's works. Kimotsuki made a guest appearance in the Yūji's Honest Room segment for Onegai! Ranking, where he revealed that Akatsuka did not approve of him as Iyami's voice actor for the second Osomatsu-kun television adaptation. Kyōji Kobayashi, who voiced Iyami for the first television adaptation of Osomatsu-kun in 1966, portrayed the character relatively quickly with a gentlemanly tone, while Kimotsuki emphasized his sarcastic and cunning characteristics, making it a completely different take. Akatsuka had even made his discomfort open to those around him, expressing, "He's completely different from before." However, after Osomatsu-kun ended the following year, Akatsuka had grown to accept Kimotsuki's Iyami, saying, "Maybe it's okay to say that he's a different type of Iyami." Kimotsuki performed the role with such intensity that after he recorded his lines, he would often quip, “I broke seven capillaries today.”

In Dokaben, he voiced Tonma Hitori. Tonma's "zura" speech pattern is a Yamanashi dialect, so he incorporated his own personal experiences from when he was there into the role. Tonma joined the Orix Buffaloes as the 5th draft pick in Dokaben: Professional Baseball Edition, and his "pendulum swing batting style was even imitated by Ichiro," leading him to providing commentary in-character during professional baseball broadcasts. He even had his Twitter account go under "tonoma_zura_".

Relationships

Kimotsuki had a close friendship with voice actor and manager Kazuya Tatekabe for over 50 years. In a 1982 interview with Kibitsu, he said that he and Tatekabe's voice were similar in tone.

Kimotsuki and Masako Nozawa often co-starred in animated productions such as Galaxy Express 999, The Monster Kid, Doraemon, Ultra B, Gutsy Frog, and Dororon Enma-kun, to which Nozawa herself once jokingly remarked, "We're closer than a married couple because we spend so much time together."

Kimotsuki also worked with fellow theater troupe member Takeshi Aono as bartenders at a snack bar. They hit it off and constantly improvised, becoming known as the “Comedy Bartenders,” with their witty bantering being a huge hit with customers.

Kimotsuki also named the acting unit “Sannin no Kai” (The Three-Person Group), consisting of Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Seki, and Wataru Takagi.

Hobbies, interests, and skills

Kimotsuki's personal hobbies included sports (mainly golf) and creating model railroads.

In junior high school, Kimotsuki had wanted to become a technician. He enjoyed working, and my parents would encourage him to pursue it. Whenever he was making models, Kimotsuki used to craft them from wood by himself. Next door to his house at the time lived a craftsman who created musical instruments, and Kimotsuki would watch from afar. That made him think, "Making instruments seems interesting too", so during his second junior high school year, he made a chair using a board from the household shrine altar, though his mother got very angry at him for doing so. During his theater troupe days, a play needed a cake prop, but a real cake would not work. So he got plaster from his part-time job and made one out of that. He also made a pistol, using only photos as reference, by joining pieces of Japanese oak. He made a 38 Smith & Wesson caliber revolver, so the cylinder part rotated. Afterwards, people kept asking him to build things, but he refrained because it was growing to interfere with his career as an actor. His wife would ask him to build shelves sometimes, but he did not like that kind of work, and his personal sense of pride would not let it happen. He held a standard driver's license.

He loved movies, particularly being influenced by his grandparents who enjoyed Western films, with Chaplin's movies especially leaving a strong impression on him. At his fifth birthday celebration, he would insist on having his picture taken while holding a cane.

Successors Following Kimotsuki's resignations from his advancing age and subsequent death, the following individuals listed below have taken over some of his established voice roles.

SuccessorCharacterWorksDebut Tetsuo Gotō Scuttle The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea Kōji Ishii Disney's House of Mouse Naoki Tatsuta Roquefort The Aristocats Additional dub recordings Setsuji Satō Tom Tom and Jerry The Tom and Jerry Show Kazuki Yao Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman Let's Go! Anpanman: Bulbul's Big Treasure Hunt Adventure Hirohiko Kakegawa Chocolatepanman TBA Yōhei Tadano Jiminy Cricket Pinocchio Kingdom Hearts III

Filmography Television animation + List of voice performances in television animation Year Title Role Notes Source –1966 Astro Boy Roboid, Atom's father, Ham Egg Substitute –1964 8 Man Additional voice 0-sen Hayato Additional voice –1965 Big X Additional voice –1967 Q-Tarō the Ghost Tsuyoshi "Godzilla" Saigō Gokū no Daibōken Villager A –1968 The Golden Bat Additional voice –1968 Perman Kabao –1968 Princess Knight Additional voice Detective Brat Pack Subordinate B –1971 Star of the Giants Additional voice Fight Da!! Pyuta Sayuri's father, Commander Domelia –1969 Kaibutsu-kun Banno –1969 Sunset Banchō Additional voice –1970 Undersea Boy Marine Henchman Umeboshi Denka Additional voice Judo Boy Additional voice Kamui Seppa, Hayane –1970 Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishō Masae Mito (The Old Lady of Mito) –1970 The Genie Family Bus driver, Cow, Conductor, Horse owner, Butler –1971 Attack No. 1 Ichinose's father –1971 Tomorrow's Joe Skinny Pine, Inmate C Bakuhatsu Gorō Clear Water –1971 Akakichi no Eleven Jiro Komano –1971 Granny Mischief Noboru –1971 Norakuro Humble Andersen Monogatari Japanese Beetle, Lion et al. Golgo 13 Additional voice Animentary: Ketsudan Additional voice –1972 New Q-Tarō the Ghost Tsuyoshi "Godzilla" Saigō, Tanu Jiro –1972 Tensai Bakabon Additional voice –1972 Marvelous Melmo God C –1972 Kunimatsu-sama no Otōridai Ino Pinocchio: The Series Cricket, Prison Guard, Fisherman, Minions, Sawshark, additional voice Triton of the Sea Cal –1973 Devilman Additional voice –1974 Science Ninja Team Gatchaman Butler –1973 Hazedon Pooyan –1974 The Gutsy Frog Street Vendor, Dad, Additional voice Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog Elder Beard Man, Resident, Kun-san Fables of the Green Forest Harry of the Ten Jungle Kurobē Kurobē Lead role Doraemon Takeshi "Gian" Gōda Little Wansa Gamble –1974 Kōya no Shōnen Isamu Additional voice Microid S Kankuro –1974 Miracle Girl Limit-chan Ryūta Ishibashi (Boss) –1974 Casshan OOA No., Luger –1974 Karate Master Additional voice –1974 Dororon Enma-kun Kapaeru –1974 Samurai Giants Additional voice Heidi, Girl of the Alps Sebastian –1976 Vicky the Viking Additional voice –1975 Majokko Megu-chan Additional voice New Honeybee Hutch Additional voice –1975 Great Mazinger Reptilian General Draydou –1976 First Human Giatrus Father –1975 Calimero Peter –1976 The Adventures of Maya the Honey Bee Termite –1976 Reideen the Brave Berostan Gamba no Bouken Dolphin Shogun in His Boyhood Kinoshita Tōkichirō –1976 Time Bokan Mondōru, Dr. Tomoda, Little Devil Mondōru features in episode 9 –1977 Original Genius Bakabon Officer, Additional voice –1977 Dino Mech Gaiking Chin Machine Hayabusa Yoshihiko Yamato Gowappa 5 Gōdam Godaemon –1977 Adventures of Pinocchio Rocco the Bird –1977 Blocker Gundan 4 Machine Blaster Chibisuki –1979 Candy Candy Alistair "Stear" Cornwell –1977 Paul's Miraculous Adventure The Spirit of the Mayfly –1977 Manga Hana no Kakarichō Additional voice –1979 Dokaben Kazuto Tonoma –1977 Robokko Beeton Oh Hender, Numassy-chan, Pickpocket, Gorilla, Doctor, Additional voice –1979 Yatterman Yokubaba, Minicui, Grandpa, Elderly Person, Witch Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac Phaco –1978 Balatack Dr. Gobra –1978 Ippatsu Kanta-kun Yamada –1978 Balloon Girl Temple Gappe –1978 Nobody's Boy: Remi Additional voice –1980 New Lupin the Third Additional voice –1978 Angie Girl Benjamin, Khan, Fireworks Shop, Douglas –1979 Song of Baseball Enthusiasts Jin-kusu –1979 Starzinger Matsudo –1979 Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern Imprint, Drunken Boy One Million-Year Trip: Bandar Book Dr. Sharaku –1981 Galaxy Express 999 Conductor, Police –1979 Treasure Island Ben Gunn –1980 Zenderman Master Gikē, Old Man, Old Man with a Hump Old Man in episode 15, Old Man with a Hump in episode 16 Japan Fairytale Masterpiece Series: Heart of the Red Bird Additional voice –1980 Cyborg 009 007 / Sir Great Britain –2005 Doraemon Suneo Honekawa Back to the Forest Yakobus Television film Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveller Emeraldas Conductor Television special Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel Radoru –1980 The Adventures of Marco Polo Omar Undersea Super Train: Marine Express Sharaku –1980 Misha the Bear Cub Drago Tragon Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!? Conductor Television special Cheerful Dwarves of the Forest: Belfy & Lillibit Docklin (aka "Dr. Snoozabit") –1982 The Monster Kid Dracula –1981 Astro Boy Drop-3, Dr. Mazeb Drop-3 in episode 9, Dr. Mazeb in episode 44 Galaxy Express 999: Can You Love Like a Mother!? Conductor Television special –1981 Hoero! Bun Bun Ponta –1982 Belle and Sebastian Lyon –1987 Ninja Hattori-kun Kemuzou Kemumaki –1983 Chie the Brat An Old Man Cat from The Tohoku Region –1982 Dash Kappei Village Chief episodes 12-13 –1986 Urusei Yatsura Manchinro, The Devil, Count Dracula, The Old Master, Chief, Additional voice Lucy of the Southern Rainbow Dayton –1983 Go For It, Ippatsuman! Kon Corudo, Trelawny, Soryasooda –1983 Magical Princess Minky Momo Count Game Center Arashi Komanosuke Don Dracula Yasubei the Bat –1983 The Mysterious Cities of Gold Pedro Ninjaman Ippei School Mask –1983 Tokimeki Tonight Bulldog Pro Golfer Saru Narrator, Manager, Commentator, Elderly Man, Golfer A, Additional voice Television special –1984 Miyuki Ueda –1985 Perman Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) Itadakiman Director –1984 Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel Negative Chickun Takkun Takkun Hat –1987 Q-Tarō the Ghost Doctor Robotan Additional voice Ultraman Kids Proverb Stories Gattsun –1987 Anmitsu Hime Guardian of the Bitter Taste –1987 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Old Crow, Additional voice –1989 Ultra B Papa –1989 Mami the Psychic Suneo Honekawa, Fisherman –1989 Osomatsu-kun Iyami –1996 Kiteretsu Large Encyclopedia Clockwork Warrior, Kiteretsusai, Benzō Karino, Genta First voice of Clockwork Warrior and Kiteretsusai –1989 Bigger and Better: Dommel & Ron Ron New Pro Golfer Saru Manager –1989 Billiken Additional voice –present Let's Go! Anpanman Chocolatepanman, Horrorman first voice Billiken Nandemo Shōkai Dr. Torino –1991 Parasol Henbē Tonbee –1990 Dash! Yonkuro Village Headman –1992 The Laughing Salesman Kyoichi Shiratama episode 52 Fujiko F. Fujio Anime Special SF Adventure Time Patrol Bon Setofuru Television special –1991 Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko Lionel Weber –1991 NG Knight Ramune & 40 Arara Colyara Yokkora III –1991 Peesuke Heisuke Hirano (Peesuke) –1992 Emergency Takeoff Saver Kids Dr. Bug City Hunter '91 Robber episode 7 –1992 21 Emon Sasayama Alien, Onabe, Captain, Detective A, Omiso Sasayama Alien appears in episode 1, Captain appears in episode 4, Detective A appears in episode 13 Bakabon: Three Thousand Miles in Search of Osomatsu's Curry Iyami Television special –1992 Flaming Rugby Boy: Dodge Danpei Venerable Tōkyūji –1992 Ultraman Kids: 30 Million Light-Years in Search of Mother Gattsun –1993 Oi! Ryoma Kodai Kawada –1993 Free Kick Toward Tomorrow Adolf Beckett –1996 Pokonyan! Ippongi Mikinosuke –1995 Red Riding Hood Chacha Tory, Grandpa Coppett –1996 The Brave of Gold Goldran Don't-Waste Grandma –1998 Gegege no Kitarō Pillow Turner –present Great Detective Conan Konosuke Jii first voice –1998 Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Roman Tan- Tadashi Horinaka –1997 The Legend of Zorro Indigenous Elder –1997 You're Under Arrest Takaya Sugano episode 19 –2000 The Kindaichi Case Files Yūichirō Matoba episodes 1-3 –1999 Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden Dowasurebon Trigun Leonof the Puppetmaster –1999 The Secret of Akko-chan Fuusuishi, Feng Shui Scammer YAT Untroubled Space Tours Geruto –1999 Totsugeki! Pappara-tai Mizushima's father –2001 Gambler Densetsu Tetsuya Nezu Wild 7: Another Hassan –2006 Golden Gash Bell!! Grisa Cinderella Boy Dr. Grimm –2011 Sergeant Keroro Ambassador from Planet Yakunin episode 165 Shura no Toki – Age of Chaos Tomita Shigeyasu Space Symphony Maetel: Galaxy Express 999 Conductor –2006 Black Jack Alexe Morozof (Karte 47) Shampoo Ōji King Soap Student Council's Discretion Train Conductor episode 7 Yuki Yuna Is a Hero Maro/Yoshiteru Maro appears in episode 3, Yoshiteru appears in episodes 5, 8, and 11

Theatrical animation + List of voice performances in theatrical animation Year Title Role Notes Source 1969 Star of the Giants Additional voice Do It! Yasuji's Pornorama!! Additional voice Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid Crab, Triton's Trumpet Snail 1979 Triton of the Sea Karu Adventures of the Polar Cubs Liquor Galaxy Express 999 Conductor Good Luck!! Tabuchi-kun!! Owner Tsutsumi 1980 Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur Suneo Honekawa Galaxy Express 999: Claire of Glass Conductor Good Luck!! Tabuchi-kun!! 2nd Bullet: The Heat of the Pennant Race Owner Tsutsumi Makoto-chan Makoto-Mushi Good Luck!! Tabuchi-kun!! Hatsu Warai 3rd Bullet: Aa Tsuppari Jinsei Owner Tsutsumi Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy 007 / Sir Great Britain 1981 Doraemon: The Record of Nobita, Spaceblazer Suneo Honekawa The Monster Kid: Invitation to Monster Land Dracula Tomorrow's Joe 2 Additional voice 21 Emon: Welcome to Space! Gonsuke Doraemon: What Am I for Momotaro? Suneo Honekawa Short film Adieu Galaxy Express 999 -Andromeda Terminal Station- Conductor 1982 Gauche the Cellist Cuckoo Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil Suneo Honekawa Ninja Hattori-kun: Abracadabra Magic Picture Diary Kemuzō Kemumaki The Monster Kid: The Demon Sword Dracula 1983 Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil Suneo Honekawa Ninja Hattori-kun: Abracadabra Hometown Battle Diary Kemuzō Kemumaki 1984 Sherlock Hound: Blue Ruby Chapter and Treasure at the Bottom of the Ocean Chapter Todd Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld Suneo Honekawa Ninja Hattori-kun + Perman: Psychic Wars Kemuzō Kemumaki 1985 Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars Suneo Honekawa Ninja Hattori-kun + Perman: Ninja Beast Jippō vs. Miracle Egg Kemuzō Kemumaki, Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) 1986 Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops Suneo Honekawa Little Ghost Q-Tarō: Jump Out! The Great Bake-Bake Operation Hakase 1987 Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs Suneo Honekawa Little Ghost Q-Tarō: Jump Out! Operation 1/100 Hakase 1988 The Legend of the Forest: Part-1 Coco Spider Short film Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West Suneo Honekawa Ultra B: The Dictator B.B. from the Black Hole!! Papa 1989 Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan Suneo Honekawa Dorami-chan: Mini Dora SOS!!! Suneki Honekawa, Future Suneo Honekawa Short film Osomatsu-kun: Hello from the Watermelon Star, Zansu! Iyami Short film 1990 It's the Ocean! It's Time to Sail! Niko Niko, Pun Jajamaru Maji! Boss Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet Suneo Honekawa 1991 Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights Suneo Honekawa Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits! Sunemaru Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: Fly! Fly! Chibigon Horrorman 1992 Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds Suneo Honekawa 21 Emon: To Space! The Barefoot Princess Onabe 1993 Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth Suneo Honekawa Sanpei the Kappa Grim Reaper Let's Go! Anpanman: Nosshi the Dinosaur's Big Adventure Horrorman 1994 Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen Suneo Honekawa Let's Go! Anpanman: The Lyrical Magical Witch's School Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Everyone Gather Together! Anpanman World Horrorman Short film 1995 Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World Suneo Honekawa 2112: The Birth of Doraemon Sunerobo Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: Let's Defeat the Haunted Ship!! Horrorman 1996 Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express Suneo Honekawa Let's Go! Anpanman: The Flying Picture Book and the Glass Shoes Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Baikinman and the 3-"Bai" Punch Horrorman Short film 1997 Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City Suneo Honekawa Let's Go! Anpanman: The Pyramid of the Rainbow Horrorman Jungle Emperor: The Movie Coco 1998 Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas Suneo Honekawa Doraemon Comes Back Suneo Honekawa Short film Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy Conductor Let's Go! Anpanman: The Palm of the Hand to the Sun Horrorman 1999 Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe Suneo Honekawa Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding Future Suneo Honekawa Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: When the Flower of Courage Opens Horrorman 2000 Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King Suneo Honekawa A Grandmother's Recollections Suneo Honekawa Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: The Tears of the Mermaid Princess Horrorman 2001 Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves Suneo Honekawa Good Luck! Gian!! Suneo Honekawa Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: Gomira's Star Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: The Amazing Naganegiman and Yakisobapanman Horrorman Short film 2002 Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon Parasimon Short film Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom Suneo Honekawa The Day When I Was Born Suneo Honekawa Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: The Secret of Roll and Laura's Floating Castle Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Tuna Maki-chan and Gold Kamameshidon Horrorman Short film 2003 Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters Suneo Honekawa Pa-Pa-Pa The Movie: Perman Kemuzou Kemumaki, Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: Ruby's Wish Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: The Amazing Naganegiman and Princess Doremi Horrorman Short film Inuyasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler Saya 2004 Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey Suneo Honekawa Pa-Pa-Pa The Movie: Perman - Octopus with a Pop! Legs with a Pon! Kemuzou Kemumaki, Perman #4 (Hōzen Ōyama) Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: Nyanii of the Country of Dream Cats Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Tsukiko and Shiratama ~Heart-racing Dancing~ Horrorman Short film 2005 Let's Go! Anpanman: Happy's Big Adventure Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Princess Snow-black and Popular Baikinman Horrorman Short film 2006 Let's Go! Anpanman: Dolly of the Star of Life Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Kokin-chan and the Blue Tears Horrorman Short film 2007 Let's Go! Anpanman: Purun of the Bubble Ball Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Horrorman and Hora-horako Horrorman Short film 2008 Let's Go! Anpanman: Rinrin the Fairy's Secret Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Hiyahiyahiyarico and Babu-Babu-Baikinman Horrorman Short film 2009 Let's Go! Anpanman: Dadandan and the Twin Stars Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Baikinman VS Baikinman!? Horrorman Short film 2010 Let's Go! Anpanman: Blacknose and the Magical Song Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Run! The Exciting Anpanman Grand Prix Horrorman Short film 2011 Let's Go! Anpanman: Rescue! Kokorin and the Star of Miracles Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Sing and Play! Anpanman and the Treasure in the Forest Horrorman Short film 2012 Let's Go! Anpanman: Revive Banana Island Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Rhythm and Play! Anpanman and the Strange Parasol Horrorman Short film 2013 Let's Go! Anpanman: Fly! The Handkerchief of Hope Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Fun for Everyone! Anpanman and the Mischievous Ghosts Horrorman Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: Apple Boy and the Wishes For Everyone Horrorman 2015 Let's Go! Anpanman: Mija and the Magic Lamp Horrorman Let's Go! Anpanman: Sing and Rhythm! Anpanman Summer Festival Horrorman Short film Let's Go! Anpanman: Nanda and Runda of the Toy Star Horrorman Final film role

Original video animation (OVA) + List of voice performances in original video animation Year Title Role Notes Source 1978 Doraemon: The Fishing Pond in My Study Room Suneo Honekawa 1979 Unico: Black Cloud, White Feathers Mouse (Garappachi) 1984 Creamy Mami: Forever Once More Nega 1985 Magical Angel Creamy Mami: Long Good-Bye Nega 1986 Magical Angel Creamy Mami: Curtain Call Nega 1986 Cosmos Pink Shock Computer 1988 Urusei Yatsura: Nagisa's Fiancé Nagisa's father 1989 Legend of the Galactic Heroes Huang Louis 1990 Osomatsu-kun: Iyami Alone in the Wind Iyami 1990 The Legend of the Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden Narration 1991 NG Knight Lamune & 40 EX: The Panic Triangle - Love's Storm Operation Arara Koryarya Yokkola III 1991 Madara Hakutaku 1993 The Hakkenden Narrator 1993 Heidi, Girl of the Alps: Alm Mountain Chapter Sebastian 1993 Heidi, Girl of the Alps: Heidi and Clara Chapter Sebastian 1994 Doraemon: Nobita and the Future Notes Suneo Honekawa 1994 Key the Metal Idol Maestro 1997 Let's Go to the Jungle! A Ham 2007 The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet Conductor

Web anime Galaxy Express 999: An Energy Journey Beyond Time and Space (2010-2011): Conductor

Video games Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights (1992): Suneo Honekawa Kingdom Hearts (2002): Jiminy Cricket

Tokusatsu Robot Detective (1973): Kowashiman (episodes 5-6), Karateman (episodes 19-20) Ganbare!! Robocon (1974): Roboinu Chouriki Sentai Ohranger (1995): Butler Acha (episodes 1-15, 17-20, 22-31, 33, 35-48) Chouriki Sentai Ohranger Movie (1995): Butler Acha Gekisou Sentai Carranger (1996): TT Terurin (ep. 24) Moero!!! Robocon (1999): Robogeta

Dubbing Live-action The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Cal Alder (Jack McKenzie) Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985): Willy (Tony Cox) Shocker (1989): Sidney Cooper (Sam Scarber)

Animation The Aristocats (1970): Roquefort Charlotte's Web (1973): Wilbur Darkwing Duck (1991): Quackerjack Josie and the Pussycats (1970): Sebastian the Cat The Little Mermaid (1989): Scuttle Pinocchio (1940): Jiminy Cricket Police Academy: The Animated Series (1988): Additional voices The Mouse and His Child (1977): Bluejay Robin Hood (1973): Friar Tuck Tom and Jerry (1940): Tom The Tom and Jerry Show (2014): Tom

Japanese voice-over Pinocchio's Daring Journey (1983): Jiminy Cricket Star Tours (1987): F-24 Sindbad's Storybook Voyage (2001): Announcer E.T. Adventure (1990): Bigzom The Amazing Adventure of Spider-Man the Ride (1999): Softman Galaxy Express 999 for Planetarium (2002): Conductor

Awards Year Award Category Result 2005 Japanese Movie Critics Awards Rikiya Tayama Award 2006 11th Animation Kobe Special Award 2007 Tokyo Anime Award Merit Award 2012 6th Seiyu Awards Achievement Award