Tarō Ishida

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title: "Tarō Ishida" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1944-births", "2013-deaths", "20th-century-japanese-male-actors", "21st-century-japanese-male-actors", "japanese-buddhist-clergy", "japanese-male-film-actors", "japanese-male-stage-actors", "japanese-male-television-actors", "japanese-male-video-game-actors", "japanese-male-voice-actors", "jōdo-shinshū-buddhist-priests", "male-voice-actors-from-kyoto"] description: "Japanese actor and voice actor (1944–2013)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarō_Ishida" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Japanese actor and voice actor (1944–2013) ::

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Field	Value
name	Tarō Ishida
image	ishida taro.jpg
native_name	石田 太郎
native_name_lang	ja
birth_name	Gentarō Ishida
birth_date
birth_place	Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
death_date
death_place	Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
spouse	Fusako Tachibana
(? - 2006, her death)
occupation	Actor, voice actor
years_active	1960–2013
parents	Shigeki Ishida
website	Granpapa
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| name = Tarō Ishida | image = ishida taro.jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name = 石田 太郎 | native_name_lang = ja | birth_name = Gentarō Ishida | birth_date = | birth_place = Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan | death_date = | death_place = Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan | other_names = | spouse = Fusako Tachibana (? - 2006, her death) | occupation = Actor, voice actor | years_active = 1960–2013 | parents = Shigeki Ishida | agent = | website = Granpapa Tarō Ishida, born Gentarō Ishida, was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and Shin Buddhist priest from the city of Kyoto. He was affiliated with Granpapa Production.

Biography

Ishida was born in Kyoto, Japan on March 16, 1944, the son of actor Shigeki Ishida. He attended the Foreign Language Department (Spanish) of Sophia University, but quit without graduating. Ishida was also a chief priest at the Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple Jōkei-ji at Kanazawa, Ishikawa.

He was married to actress Fusako Tachibana until her death in 2006.

Ishida died on September 21, 2013, from myocardial infarction.

Filmography

Films

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	A Taxing Woman's Return	Kiyohara
1989	Violent Cop	Detective Tomosato
1990	Heaven and Earth	Takeda Nobushige
1993	A Touch of Fever	Yoriko's Father
1996	Oishinbo	Koizumi
1998	Pride	Akira Mutō
Ikinai	Noguchi
2001	Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack	SDF Officer
2004	Quill	Hiroshi Totsuka
2006	Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan	Minister of Defense Seigo Umezu
2008	Departures	Sonezaki
2009	Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky	City Council Member
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Television dramas

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Oshin
1984	Sanga Moyu
1986	Musashibō Benkei	Kajiwara Kagetoki
1987	Dokuganryū Masamune	Nihonmatsu Yoshitsugu
1989	Kasuga no Tsubone	Ōkubo Tadachika
1998	Shomuni	Kato
2000	Aoi	Ōkubo Tadachika
2007	The Family	Yasuda
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Television animation

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Time Patrol-Tai Otasukeman	Napoleon
2001	Lupin III: Alcatraz Connection	Assistant Inspector Terry Crown
2002	Detective Conan	Police Inspector Radish Redwood
2003	Requiem from the Darkness	Emon Shibamigi
2004	Astro Boy: Mighty Atom	Duke Red
Black Jack	Toranomon
2007	GeGeGe no Kitarō	Vampire Elite Johnny	Fifth series
2012-2013	Space Brothers	Deneil Young
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Original video animation (OVA)

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990-1991	Record of Lodoss War	Emperor Beld
1994-1996	Legend of the Galactic Heroes	Heydrich Lang (second voice)
1995	Bio Hunter	Tabu
1995-1998	Giant Robo	Demon King of Chaos Fan Rui
1999	Harlock Saga	Wotan
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Theatrical animation

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro	Count Cagliostro
1982	Arcadia of My Youth	Zeda
1983	Final Yamato	Lugal
1985	The Dagger of Kamui	Tenkai, Saigō Takamori
Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight	Saint Asgard	As "Gentarō Ishida
1986	Fist of the North Star	Narrator
1988	Akira	Colonel Shikishima
1989	Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland	Nightmare King
1997	Case Closed: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper	Teiji Moriya
1998	Crayon Shin-chan: Blitzkrieg! Pig's Hoof's Secret Mission	Mouse
2001	Metropolis	Duke Red
2003	One Piece: Dead End Adventure	Gasparde
2006	Brave Story	Bishop Daimon
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Tokusatsu

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Ultraman Story	Father of Ultra
2003	Kamen Rider 555	Joji Soeno
2007	Juken Sentai Gekiranger	Kentaro Hisatsu
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Video games

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Adventure of Tokyo Disney Sea ~Losing of Jewel's secret	King Triton
2002	Kingdom Hearts	url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Taro-Ishida/	title=Taro Ishida (visual voices guide)
2005	Kingdom Hearts II	King Triton, Eeyore
2008	Dissidia: Final Fantasy	Exdeath
2011	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy
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Dubbing roles

Live-action

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Original Year	Title	Role	Original actor	Notes	Refs
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Colonel Saito	Sessue Hayakawa
1959	Ben-Hur	Ben-Hur	Charlton Heston	1979 Nippon TV edition
1962	Lawrence of Arabia	Colonel Harry Brighton	Anthony Quayle	1981 TV Asahi edition
1973	The Sting	Lieutenant William Snyder	Charles Durning	1991 TV Asahi edition
1977	The Domino Principle	Roy Tucker	Gene Hackman
1979	The Amityville Horror	George Lutz	James Brolin	1982 NTV edition
Apocalypse Now	Colonel Walter E. Kurtz	Marlon Brando
1980	The Empire Strikes Back	Darth Vader	James Earl Jones	1992 TV Asahi edition
The Shining	Jack Torrance	Jack Nicholson	1996 TV Tokyo edition
Superman II	Lex Luthor	Gene Hackman	1984 TV Asahi edition
1981	The Cannonball Run	Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing	Jack Elam	1984 Fuji TV edition
Raiders of the Lost Ark	René Belloq	Paul Freeman	1993 DVD edition
1982	Conan the Barbarian	Thulsa Doom	James Earl Jones	1985 Nippon TV edition
48 Hrs.	Jack Cates	Nick Nolte	1985 Nippon TV edition, as "Gentarō Ishida
First Blood	Sheriff Will Teasle	Brian Dennehy	1985 NTV, 1990 TBS and 1995 TV Asahi editions
1983	Cannonball Run II	Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing	Jack Elam
Project A	San	Dick Wei
Scarface	Frank Lopez	Robert Loggia	1989 TV Asahi edition
Under Fire	Alex Grazier	Gene Hackman
1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Mola Ram	Amrish Puri	1987 Nippon TV edition
The NeverEnding Story	Falkor, Gmork	Alan Oppenheimer
1985	Cocoon	Walter	Brian Dennehy
Commando	Bennett	Vernon Wells
1987	The Running Man	Damon Killian	Richard Dawson	1989 Fuji TV edition
No Way Out	Defense Secretary David Brice	Gene Hackman	TV Tokyo edition
1988	Mississippi Burning	Agent Rupert Anderson	1992 TV Asahi edition
1989	The Package	Sgt. Johnny Gallagher	1993 TBS edition
K-9	Lyman	Kevin Tighe	1993 TV Asahi edition
The Punisher	Jake Berkowitz	Louis Gossett Jr.
Columbo	Lt. Columbo	Peter Falk	Season 8~
1990	Dances with Wolves	Kicking Bird	Graham Greene
Die Hard 2	Trudeau	Fred Thompson	1994 TV Asahi edition
Loose Cannons	MacArthur Stern	Gene Hackman
Postcards from the Edge	Lowell Kolchek
Narrow Margin	Robert Caulfield
1991	Class Action	Jedediah Tucker Ward
Armour of God II: Operation Condor	Adolf	Aldo Sambrell	1993 Fuji TV edition
The Silence of the Lambs	Hannibal Lecter	Anthony Hopkins	1995 TV Asahi edition
1992	Alien 3	Leonard Dillon	Charles S. Dutton	1998 TV Asahi edition
Batman Returns	Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin	Danny DeVito	1994 TV Asahi edition
Unforgiven	Little Bill Daggett	Gene Hackman
1993	Geronimo: An American Legend	Brig. Gen. George Crook
This Boy's Life	Dwight Hansen	Robert De Niro
1994	Wyatt Earp	Nicholas Earp	Gene Hackman	1997 TV Tokyo edition
1995	Crimson Tide	Captain Frank Ramsey
The Quick and the Dead	John Herod
Die Hard with a Vengeance	Inspector Walter Cobb	Larry Bryggman	1998 Fuji TV edition
1996	The Birdcage	Senator Kevin Keeley	Gene Hackman	2000 Fuji TV edition
The Chamber	Sam Cayhall
Extreme Measures	Dr. Lawrence Myrick
1997	Absolute Power	President Alan Richmond
Men in Black	Chief Zed	Rip Torn	2001 Nippon TV edition
Cop Land	Ray Donlan	Harvey Keitel	2000 Nippon TV edition
1998	Godzilla	Mayor Ebert	Michael Lerner	2001 NTV edition
Enemy of the State	Edward "Brill" Lyle	Gene Hackman	2003 Fuji TV edition
2000	Under Suspicion	Henry Hearst
Gone in 60 Seconds	Detective Roland Castlebeck	Delroy Lindo
2001	Evolution	Brigadier General Russell Woodman	Ted Levine	2005 NTV edition
Behind Enemy Lines	Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart	Gene Hackman
Heist	Joe Moore
The Royal Tenenbaums	Royal Tenenbaum
Hannibal	Hannibal Lecter	Anthony Hopkins
2002	Red Dragon	2006 TV Tokyo edition
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Treebeard	John Rhys-Davies
Men in Black II	Chief Zed	Rip Torn	2005 TV Asahi edition
Undisputed	Mendy Ripstein	Peter Falk
About Schmidt	Warren R. Schmidt	Jack Nicholson
2003	Runaway Jury	Rankin Fitch	Gene Hackman
Big Fish	Old Edward Bloom	Albert Finney
2004	Saw	Jigsaw	Tobin Bell
2005	Saw II
Batman Begins	William Earle	Rutger Hauer
Carmine Falcone	Tom Wilkinson	2007 Nippon TV edition
Brokeback Mountain	Joe Aguirre	Randy Quaid
2006	The Departed	Frank Costello	Jack Nicholson
ER	Richard Elliot	Armand Assante
Saw III	Jigsaw	Tobin Bell
2007	Saw IV
Next	Irv	Peter Falk
Sleuth	Andrew Wyke	Michael Caine
2009	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	Doctor Parnassus	Christopher Plummer
The City of Your Final Destination	Adam Gund	Anthony Hopkins
2010	Beginners	Hal Fields	Christopher Plummer
Green Zone	Martin Brown	Brendan Gleeson
Robin Hood	Sir Walter Loxley	Max von Sydow
2012	Silent Hill: Revelation	Leonard Wolf	Malcolm McDowell
The Raven	Captain Charles Hamilton	Brendan Gleeson
2013	The Smurfs 2	Victor Doyle
Red 2	Ivan Simanov	Brian Cox
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Animation

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Original Year	Title	Role	Original actor	Notes	Refs
1953	Peter Pan	Indian Chief	Candy Candido	Buena Vista edition
1981	The Fox and the Hound	Adult Copper	Kurt Russell
1988	Oliver and Company	Bill Sykes	Robert Loggia
1989	The Little Mermaid	King Triton	Kenneth Mars	Re-release edition
1997	Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin	Eeyore	Peter Cullen
2000	The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea	King Triton	Kenneth Mars
The Tigger Movie	Eeyore	Peter Cullen
2001-2003	The Book of Pooh
2004	Shark Tale	Don Feinberg	Peter Falk
2011	Cars 2	Mel Dorado	Patrick Walker
2013	Planes	Skipper Riley	Stacy Keach
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Japanese voiceover

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Opening Year	Title	Role	Notes	Refs
1983	Peter Pan's Flight	Indian Chief
2000	Pooh's Hunny Hunt	Eeyore
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