Ben Hiura

Ben Hiura (樋浦勉, Hiura Ben; born Tsutomu Hiura (樋浦勉, Hiura Tsutomu), January 25, 1943) is a Japanese actor and voice actor^[1] affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. Hiura is known for dubbing over Bruce Willis, Richard Dreyfuss, John Malkovich, Joe Pesci and many more.

Ben Hiura
Born	(1943-01-25) January 25, 1943 (age 82) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1960s–present
Children	Akaneko Hiura
Website	https://www.seinenza-eihou.com/profile-1/eihou-m/hiura-b/

Filmography

Films

• Goyokin (1969) – Rokuzo
• Fuji sanchō (1970) – A Man
• Mount Hakkoda (1977) – Sato
• Eijanaika (1981)
• The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
• Tōki Rakujitsu (1992)
• Zatōichi (2003)
• Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015) – Ichizō
• Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020)

Television drama

• Ultraman (1966) – A Truck driver
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) – Hattori Hanzō
• Sanga Moyu (1984)
• Edo o Kiru (1994)
• Shinsengumi Keppūroku (1998)
• Kamen Rider Hibiki (2005)
• Kamen Rider W (2010)
• Sanada Maru (2016) – Ōsumi Yozaemon

Television animation

• Lupin the 3rd Part II (1979) – Gabotto, Bakki
• Master Keaton (1999) – Kendoru
• Golgo 13 (2009) – Roy
• Gosick (2011) – Kazuya's father
• Danchi Tomoo (2013) – Kimifumi Hazama
• Your Lie in April (2014) – Junzō Ibata
• Ace Attorney (2016) – Judge
• One Piece (2017) – Zunisha

OVA

• Submarine 707R (2003) – Captain Yōhei Hayami

Video games

• Kingdom Hearts II (2005) – Banzai
• Project X Zone (2012) – Bruno Delinger^[2]
• Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015) – Evgeny Rebic
• Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind (2021 Remake) (2021) – Zenzou Tanabe

Dubbing roles

Live-action

• Bruce Willis
  • Die Hard – John McClane^[3]
  • Die Hard 2 – John McClane^[4]
  • Hudson Hawk – Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins
  • The Last Boy Scout – Joe Cornelius Hallenbeck
  • Death Becomes Her (1996 NTV edition) – Dr. Ernest Menville
  • Nobody's Fool – Carl Roebuck
  • North – Narrator, Easter Bunny, Gabby
  • 12 Monkeys – James Cole^[5]
  • Die Hard with a Vengeance – John McClane
  • Four Rooms – Leo
  • Bandits – Joe Blake
  • Hart's War – Colonel William A. McNamara
  • Hostage (2009 TV Asahi edition) – Police Chief Jeff Talley
  • Sin City – Det. John Hartigan^[6]
  • Live Free or Die Hard – John McClane
  • Catch .44 – Mel
  • A Good Day to Die Hard (2015 Collector's Box edition) – John McClane
  • The Prince – Omar^[7]
  • Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – John Hartigan^[8]
  • Extraction – Leonard Turner
  • Precious Cargo – Eddie Pilosa
  • Reprisal – James^[9]
  • Breach – Clay Young^[10]
  • Deadlock – Ron Whitlock^[11]
  • A Day to Die – Alston^[12]
  • Wrong Place – Frank Richards^[13]
  • Wire Room – Shane Mueller^[14]
• Richard Dreyfuss
  • Jaws (1981 NTV edition) – Matt Hooper
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1982 TV Asahi edition) – Roy Neary
  • The Goodbye Girl (1982 TBS edition)– Elliot Garfield
  • The Big Fix (TBS edition) – Moses Wine
  • The Buddy System (NTV edition) – Joe
  • Stand by Me (1989 Fuji TV edition) – The Writer
  • Stakeout (1994 NTV edition) – Det. Chris Lecce
  • Always (VHS, DVD and Blu-ray and 1995 NTV editions) – Pete Sandich
  • Let It Ride (VHS edition) – Jay Trotter
  • Once Around – Sam Sharpe
  • Another Stakeout (1998 NTV edition) – Det. Chris Lecce
  • Mr. Holland's Opus (1997 TV Asahi edition) – Glenn Holland
  • The Crew – Bobby Bartellemeo
  • Fail Safe – The President^[15]
  • My Life in Ruins – Irv Gideon^[16]
  • Squatters – David
  • Audrey – Robert Dreyfuss^[17]
• Robert De Niro
  • Midnight Run – Jack Walsh
  • Cape Fear – Max Cady
  • Meet the Parents – Jack Tiberius Byrnes^[18]
  • Meet the Fockers – Jack Tiberius Byrnes^[19]
  • Stardust – Captain Shakespeare
  • Everybody's Fine – Frank Goode
  • Little Fockers – Jack Tiberius Byrnes^[20]
  • Killer Elite – Hunter^[21]
  • New Year's Eve – Stan Harris^[22]
  • Freelancers – Captain Joe Sarcone
  • The Big Wedding – Don Griffin^[23]
  • Killing Season – Benjamin Ford
  • The Bag Man – Dragna^[24]
  • Heist – Francis "The Pope" Silva
  • Hands of Stone – Ray Arcel
  • Killers of the Flower Moon – William King Hale
• John Malkovich
  • In the Line of Fire (1996 TV Asahi edition) – Mitch Leary
  • Con Air (2000 TV Asahi edition) – Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom^[25]
  • Burn After Reading – Osbourne Cox^[26]
  • Red – Marvin Boggs^[27]
  • Secretariat – Lucien Laurin
  • Red 2 – Marvin Boggs^[28]
  • Warm Bodies – Colonel Grigio
  • Deepwater Horizon – Donald Vidrine^[29]
  • Unlocked – Bob Hunter^[30]
  • Bullet Head – Walker
  • The New Pope – Pope John Paul III^[31]
• Joe Pesci
  • Lethal Weapon 2 (1993 TV Asahi edition) – Leo Getz^[32]
  • Home Alone (1998 TV Asahi edition) – Harry Lime^[33]
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1996 TV Asahi edition) – Harry Lime
  • Lethal Weapon 3 (1995 TV Asahi edition) – Leo Getz
  • Casino – Nicholas "Nicky" Santoro
  • Lethal Weapon 4 (2001 NTV and 2003 TV Asahi editions) – Leo Getz
  • The Irishman – Russell Bufalino^[34]
• Danny DeVito
  • Twins (1991 TV Asahi edition) – Vincent Benedict
  • Batman Returns – Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin
  • Jack the Bear – John Leary
  • Mars Attacks! – Rude Gambler^[35]
  • Matilda – Harry Wormwood
  • What's the Worst That Could Happen? – Max Fairbanks
• Gary Busey
  • Bulletproof (1990 TV Asahi edition) – Frank McBain
  • Predator 2 (1994 TV Asahi edition) – Peter Keyes^[36]
  • Point Break – Angelo Pappas
  • Under Siege – Commander Krill^[37]
  • The Rage (TV Tokyo edition) – Art Dacy
• Robin Williams
  • Awakenings – Dr. Malcolm Sayer
  • Hook – Peter Banning/Peter Pan
  • Good Will Hunting – Sean Maguire^[38]
  • The Final Cut – Alan Hakman
  • The Butler (2016 BS Japan edition) – Dwight D. Eisenhower^[39]
• 48 Hrs. (1985 NTV edition) – Albert Ganz (James Remar)^[40]
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension – Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow)^[41]
• Alien: The Director's Cut – Brett (Harry Dean Stanton)^[42]
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1980 TV Tokyo edition) – Lieutenant Ethan Bishop (Austin Stoker)^[43]
• Battlestar Galactica – Sire Uri (Ray Milland)^[44]
• Beverly Hills Cop II – Maxwell Dent (Jürgen Prochnow)
• Big Game – Herbert (Jim Broadbent)^[45]
• The Big Lebowski (Blu-Ray edition) – Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski (David Huddleston)
• The Bodyguard – Mail Man (Yuen Wah)^[46]
• The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day – Louie "The Roman" / "The Old Man" (Peter Fonda)^[47]
• Cool Runnings – Irving Blitzer (John Candy)^[48]
• CSI: Cyber – D.B. Russell (Ted Danson)^[49]
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980 Movie theater edition) – Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams)
• Daddy's Home 2 – Don Whitaker (John Lithgow)^[50]
• Das Boot (1983 Fuji TV edition) – Chief Engineer (Klaus Wennemann)
• Dinosaurs – Earl Sinclair (Stuart Pankin)
• Doomsday – Marcus Kane (Malcolm McDowell)^[51]
• Dune – Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Kenneth McMillan)^[52]
• Eraser (1999 NTV edition) – Johnny Casteleone (Robert Pastorelli)
• Falling Down – William "D-Fens" Foster (Michael Douglas)
• Forrest Gump (1998 NTV edition) – Lieutenant Dan Taylor (Gary Sinise)^[53]
• Getaway – Mysterious Voice (Jon Voight)^[54]
• Ghost Ship – Captain Sean Murphy (Gabriel Byrne)^[55]
• The Hard Way – Lieutenant John Moss (James Woods)^[56]
• Hatfields & McCoys – Jim Vance (Tom Berenger)^[57]
• The Haunted Mansion – Ezra (Wallace Shawn)
• The Hitcher (1987 TV Tokyo edition) – John Ryder (Rutger Hauer)^[58]
• Hobo with a Shotgun – Hobo (Rutger Hauer)
• House of Gucci – Aldo Gucci (Al Pacino)^[59]
• The Hudsucker Proxy – Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman)^[60]
• Iceman: The Time Traveler – Hojo Shogun (Yasuaki Kurata)^[61]
• Insomnia – Will Dormer (Al Pacino)^[62]
• Internal Affairs – Officer Dennis Peck (Richard Gere)^[63]
• Kill Bill: Volume 2 – Johnny Mo (Gordon Liu)^[64]
• Kung Fu Hustle – The Landlord of the Pig Sty Alley (Yuen Wah)^[65]
• Marked for Death (1995 TV Asahi edition) – Screwface (Basil Wallace)^[66]
• Master with Cracked Fingers – Old Master (Yuen Siu-tien)^[67]
• The Matrix (2002 Fuji TV edition) – Cypher (Joe Pantoliano)
• Million Dollar Baby – Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood)^[68]
• Mission: Impossible – Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny)
• The Monkey King – Dragon King of the East Sea (Liu Hua)^[69]
• Natural Born Killers – Warden Dwight McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones)^[70]
• The Passage – Captain Von Berkow (Malcolm McDowell)^[71]
• Proud Mary – Benny (Danny Glover)^[72]
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1993 DVD edition) – Major Arnold Toht (Ronald Lacey)^[73]
• Raising Cain – Dr. Carter Nix (John Lithgow)^[74]
• Rambo: First Blood Part II (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Marshall Murdock (Charles Napier)
• The Return of the Living Dead (1987 NTV edition) – Freddy (Thom Mathews)
• Return of the Living Dead Part II (1989 NTV edition) – Joey (Thom Mathews)
• Rogue One – Admiral Raddus
• Saaho – Narantak Roy (Jackie Shroff)^[75]
• Safe House – Harlan Whitford (Sam Shepard)^[76]
• Scarface (1989 TV Asahi edition) – Tony Montana (Al Pacino)
• Shooter – Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover)^[77]
• Superman III (1985 TV Asahi edition) – August "Gus" Gorman (Richard Pryor)^[78]
• Survivor – Bill Talbot (Robert Forster)
• The Sweeney – Detective Inspector Jack Regan (Ray Winstone)
• Taboo – Sir Stuart Strange (Jonathan Pryce)
• Tai Chi 0 – Grand Uncle (Stanley Fung)^[79]
• Tai Chi Hero – Grand Uncle (Stanley Fung)^[80]
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows – Splinter^[81]
• Total Recall (1992 TV Asahi edition) – Benny (Mel Johnson Jr.)
• True Lies – Salim Abu Aziz (Art Malik)
• A Walk in the Woods – Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte)^[82]
• The Young Master – Ah Suk (Fung Fung)^[83]

Animation

• Cars – Ramone^[84]
• Cars 2 – Ramone^[85]
• Cars 3 – Ramone^[86]
• Kung Fu Panda 3 – Master Shifu^[87]
• Kung Fu Panda 4 – Master Shifu^[88]
• The Lion King – Banzai^[89]
• Toy Story 2 – Al McWhiggin^[90]
• Trolls World Tour – King Thrash^[91]