Kazuya Tatekabe

Japanese actor and voice actor

Actor
voice actor

Height168 cm (5 ft 6 in)

Kazuya Tatekabe (たてかべ和也、立壁和也, Tatekabe Kazuya, July 20, 1934 – June 18, 2015) was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He was born in Kimobetsu, Hokkaidō. He was represented by Kenyu Horiuchi's Kenyu Office at the time of his death.^[1]

He was most known for the roles of Gian (Doraemon), Walsa (Time Bokan), and Tonzura (Yatterman).

Career

Tatekabe has been a voice actor for 61 years, he was affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society in the 1950s, then Production Baobab and The Kenyu Office till the time of his death.

Gian

In 1979, he was cast in the second Doraemon anime as Takeshi Goda (also known by the name Gian), a strong and quick-tempered local bully who can fight at any time and with any kid he sees, especially Nobita, alongside co-stars Nobuyo Ōyama (Doraemon), Noriko Ohara (Nobita Nobi), Michiko Nomura (Shizuka Minamoto) and Kaneta Kimotsuki (Suneo Honekawa). After playing the role for 26 years, he handed his role over to Subaru Kimura on April 15, 2005.

Tonzura

In 1977, he was cast in the first Time Bokan series of Yatterman as a short, muscular, squat man with a severe overbite and facial stubble. He reprised his role, alongside co-stars Noriko Ohara (Doronjo) and Jōji Yanami (Boyacky), in 2008, he reunited with Ohara and Yanami to reprise their roles for the 2008 adaptation. The sole exception being the Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes game released by Capcom for Wii in 2008, in which the role he reprised for his lifetime, he appeared along with Ohara except Yanami and creator Hiroshi Sasagawa in the live-action film adaptation of the series and a customer of the restaurant run by the Dorombo Gang.

Death

Tatekabe died of acute respiratory failure on June 18, 2015, at the age of 80. Memorial services were held on June 29, 2015, in Aoyama Funeral hall.^[2]

Successors

+ marks the time before Tatekabe's death

Subaru Kimura+ (Doraemon (2005) as Takeshi Goda)

Notable voice work

Dōbutsu no Mori, the film adaptation of the Animal Crossing video game series. (Araso)
Kyojin no Hoshi (Takashi Yoshida)
Golden Warrior Gold Lightan (Ibaruda-Daiou)
Neo-Human Casshern (Barashin)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (Tonoda)
Sazae-san (Anago-san (first voice))
Tiger Mask (Daigo Daima)
Time Bokan series
- Time Bokan (Walsa)
- Yatterman (Tonzura)
- Zenderman (Donjuro)
- Otasukeman (Dowarusuki)
- Yattodetaman (Alan Sukado, Tonzura)
- Ippatsuman (Kyokanchin, Kumagoro)
- Itadakiman (Tonmentan)
- Time Bokan 2000 (Ondore, Tonzura, Walsa)
Combattler V (Daisaku Nishikawa, Narua)
Gordian Warrior (Barubadasu)
Doraemon (Jaian (original voice)(Takeshi Gouda))
Magikano (Aijan)
Monster (Old Man)
Yakitate!! Japan (Schweinlinch)
Raideen (Thunders)
The Snow Queen (Thomas)
Lupin III 2nd Series (Benson Donkonjo Jr.)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Chan Tao)
Gunbird (Valnus, Claude)
Gunbird 2 (Valpiro, Blade)

Theatrical animation

Doraemon films (as Jaian)
- Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
- Doraemon: The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
- Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld
- Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Knights on Dinosaurs
- Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Visit to the West
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet
- Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth
- Doraemon: Nobita's Three Visionary Swordsmen (Jaithos)
- Doraemon: Nobita's Diary of the Creation of the World
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City
- Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas
- Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves
- Doraemon: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters
- Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey

Video games

Project X Zone (Drei Belanos)^[3]

Dub work

Live-action

Everybody Loves Raymond (Frank Barone: Peter Boyle)
Frankenstein's Army (Robert Gwilym: Novikov)^[4]
The Man from Hong Kong (Win Chan: Sammo Hung)^[5]
Seed of Chucky (Pete Peters: John Waters)^[6]

Animation

Alice in Wonderland (Carpenter)^[7]
Ben 10 (Max Tennyson)
Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (Pappy)
Wacky Races (Little Gruesome)

Television

Robot Detective (Dennetsuman)
Choujin Bibyun (Bagdard)

References

^ 初代ジャイアン役、たてかべ和也さん死去. Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). June 19, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2015.
^ "Doraemon Voice Actor Kazuya Tatekabe Passes Away". Anime News Network. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
^ "『PROJECT X ZONE（プロジェクトクロスゾーン）』強力なライバルたち！". s.famitsu.com (in Japanese). August 30, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
^ "武器人間". Sony Pictures. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
^ "スカイ・ハイ 4Kレストアスタンダード版 Blu-ray". TC Entertainment. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
^ "チャイルド・プレイ5/チャッキーの種". The Cinema. Retrieved February 26, 2023.
^ "ふしぎの国のアリス". The Cinema. Retrieved February 1, 2023.