Toshio Furukawaborn 1946
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Actor
Popularity
3.9
Famous
Biography
Toshio Furukawa (古川 登志夫, Furukawa Toshio, born July 16, 1946 in what is now part of the city of Tochigi) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator affiliated with Aoni Production. He became famous for his roles in his career as Kagege (Keroro Gunso), Kai Shiden (Mobile Suit Gundam), Shin (Fist of the North Star), Asuma Shinohara (Mobile Police Patlabor), Piccolo (Dragon Ball), Ataru Moroboshi (Urusei Yatsura) and Portgas D. Ace (One Piece). His debut voice role is a soldier in Brave Raideen. Toshio is a veteran who has played a variety of characters from comedians like Ataru of Urusei Yatsura and Inumaru of Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!, to calm, serious ones like Shin from Fist of the North Star and Piccolo of the Dragon Ball series. Furthermore, Toshio is capable of performing with a "boy voice" and has played noble hot-blooded heroes such as Prince Mito of Saikyō Robo Daiōja and Kento Tate of Future Robo Daltanius. He performed in the band Slapstick (スラップスティック) with Toru Furuya, Kazuyuki Sogabe, Yūji Mitsuya and Akio Nojima. In 2007, Slapstick got together to pay tribute to former band members, Hirotaka Suzuoki and Kazuyuki Sogabe (guitar). Furukawa owns a pet dog named Asuma (遊馬), a Shih Tzu that was named after Asuma Shinohara of Patlabor. His former pet was Ataru (あたる), which was named after Ataru Moroboshi of Urusei Yatsura. Ataru died in 2008 at age fifteen and was also a Shih Tzu. Tribute pages were made for both pets.
Credits
2024
Action • Animation • Fantasy • Thriller
as Hantengu (voice)
2023
Animation • Comedy • Fantasy • Horror • Mystery
as A Mysterious Boy (voice)
2022
Action • Animation • Drama • Science Fiction
as Kai Shiden (voice)
2018
Action • Animation • Science Fiction • War
as Kai Shiden (voice)
2017
Action • Animation • Science Fiction • War
as Kai Shiden (voice
2017
Action • Adventure • Animation • TV Movie
as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
2017
Action • Adventure • Animation
as Piccolo (voice)
2016
Action • Animation • Science Fiction
as Kai Shiden (voice)
2015
Action • Animation • TV Movie
as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
2014
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Fantasy
as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
2013
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Fantasy
as Piccolo (voice)
2012
Action • Adventure • Comedy • Drama • Science Fiction
as Wiseman (voice)
2009
Animation • Crime • Mystery • Thriller
as Misao Yamamura (voice)
2008
Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy • Romance
as Ataru Morobishi (voice)
2008
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Science Fiction
as Piccolo (voice)
2008
Animation • Comedy
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
2006
Action • Animation • Science Fiction • War
as Kai Shiden (voice)
2005
Action • Adventure • Animation • Drama
as Erik Jan Hanussen (voice)
2005
Action • Animation • Science Fiction • War
as Kai Shiden (voice)
2004
Action • Adventure • Crime • Science Fiction
as Narrator (voice)
2004
Adventure • Animation • Family
as Nyago (voice)
2003
Action • Adventure • Fantasy • Science Fiction
as Dimensionsal Drifter Galvidi
2002
Action • Animation • Science Fiction • Thriller
as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
1994
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Fantasy • Horror
as Ranmaru Mori (voice)
1993
Action • Adventure • Animation
as Piccolo (voice)
1993
Action • Animation • Science Fiction
as Piccolo (voice)
1991
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Romance
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
1991
Animation • Comedy • Family • Science Fiction
as Ataru (voice)
1989
Animation • Comedy • Family • Romance • Science Fiction
as Ataru (voice)
1988
Animation • Science Fiction • War
as Olivier Poplin
1988
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Romance
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
1987
Action • Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Crime
as Arsène Lupin III (voice)
1987
Action • Animation • Horror • Science Fiction • TV Movie
as Takuya Gorozu (voice)
1987
Animation • Drama • Family • Fantasy • Romance • Science Fiction
as Fritz (voice)
1987
Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy • Science Fiction
1986
Animation • Comedy • Family • Science Fiction
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
1986
Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy • Romance • Science Fiction
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
1986
Action • Animation • Science Fiction • TV Movie
as Shin (voice)
1985
Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy • Romance • Science Fiction
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
1984
Animation • Comedy
as Tarou Soramame (voice)
1984
Animation • Romance • TV Movie
as Sally
1984
Animation • Comedy • Romance • Science Fiction
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
1983
Action • Animation • Comedy
as Tarou
1983
Action • Animation • Comedy
as Christopher Chris
1983
Animation • Comedy • Family • Romance • Science Fiction
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
1982
Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Fantasy • Science Fiction
as Tarou Soramame (voice)
1982
Action • Animation • Science Fiction
as Kai Shiden (voice)
1981
Action • Animation • Science Fiction
as Kai Shiden (voice)
1979
Animation • Science Fiction • TV Movie
as Shigeru Sakamoto
