Tarō Ishida

For the composer, see Taro Ishida (composer).

Tarō Ishida (石田 太郎, Ishida Tarō, March 16, 1944 – September 21, 2013), born Gentarō Ishida (石田 弦太郎, Ishida Gentarō), was a Japanese actor, voice actor and Shin Buddhist priest from the city of Kyoto. He was affiliated with Granpapa Production.

Tarō Ishida
石田 太郎
Born	Gentarō Ishida (1944-03-16)March 16, 1944 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Died	September 21, 2013(2013-09-21) (aged 69) Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation(s)	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1960–2013
Spouse(s)	Fusako Tachibana (? - 2006, her death)
Parent	Shigeki Ishida
Website	Granpapa

Biography

Ishida was born in Kyoto, Japan on March 16, 1944, the son of actor Shigeki Ishida.^[1] He attended the Foreign Language Department (Spanish) of Sophia University, but quit without graduating.^[2] Ishida was also a chief priest at the Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple Jōkei-ji at Kanazawa, Ishikawa.^[3]

He was married to actress Fusako Tachibana until her death in 2006.^[4]

Ishida died on September 21, 2013, from myocardial infarction.^[5]

Filmography

Films

• A Taxing Woman's Return (1988) – Kiyohara
• Violent Cop (1989) – Detective Tomosato
• Heaven and Earth (1990) – Takeda Nobushige
• A Touch of Fever (1993) – Yoriko's Father
• Oishinbo (1996) – Koizumi
• Pride (1998) – Akira Mutō^[6]
• Ikinai (1998) – Noguchi
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) – SDF Officer
• Quill (2004) – Hiroshi Totsuka
• Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan (2006) – Minister of Defense Seigo Umezu
• Departures (2008) – Sonezaki
• Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky (2009) – City Council Member

Television dramas

• Oshin (1983)
• Sanga Moyu (1984)
• Musashibō Benkei (1986) – Kajiwara Kagetoki
• Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) – Nihonmatsu Yoshitsugu
• Kasuga no Tsubone (1989) – Ōkubo Tadachika
• Shomuni (1998) – Kato
• Aoi (2000) – Ōkubo Tadachika
• The Family (2007) – Yasuda

Television animation

• Astro Boy: Mighty Atom – General Red
• Black Jack – Toranomon
• Detective Conan – Police Inspector Radish Redwood
• GeGeGe no Kitarō (fifth series) – Vampire Elite Johnny
• Lupin III: Alcatraz Connection – Assistant Inspector Terry Crown
• Requiem from the Darkness – Emon Shibamigi
• Space Brothers – Deneil Young
• Time Patrol-Tai Otasukeman – Napoleon

Original video animation (OVA)

• Bio Hunter – Tabu
• Giant Robo – Demon King of Chaos Fan Rui
• Harlock Saga – Wotan
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes – Heydrich Lang (second voice)
• Record of Lodoss War – Emperor Beld

Theatrical animation

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

Tokusatsu

• Kamen Rider 555 – Joji Soeno
• Juken Sentai Gekiranger – Kentaro Hisatsu
• Ultraman Story – Father of Ultra

Video games

• Adventure of Tokyo Disney Sea ~Losing of Jewel's secret – King Triton
• Dissidia: Final Fantasy (2008) – Exdeath^[7]
• Kingdom Hearts (2002) – King Triton^[7]
• Kingdom Hearts II (2005) – King Triton, Eeyore
• Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy (2011) - Exdeath^[7]

Dubbing roles

Live-action

• Gene Hackman
  • The Domino Principle – Roy Tucker
  • Superman II (1984 TV Asahi edition) – Lex Luthor^[8]
  • Under Fire – Alex Grazier
  • No Way Out (TV Tokyo edition) – Defense Secretary David Brice
  • Mississippi Burning (1992 TV Asahi edition) – Agent Rupert Anderson
  • The Package (1993 TBS edition) – Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
  • Loose Cannons – MacArthur Stern
  • Postcards from the Edge – Lowell Kolchek
  • Narrow Margin – Robert Caulfield
  • Class Action – Jedediah Tucker Ward
  • Unforgiven – Little Bill Daggett
  • Geronimo: An American Legend – Brig. Gen. George Crook^[9]
  • Wyatt Earp (1997 TV Tokyo edition) – Nicholas Earp
  • Crimson Tide – Captain Frank Ramsey^[10]
  • The Quick and the Dead – John Herod^[11]
  • The Birdcage (2000 Fuji TV edition) – Senator Kevin Keeley
  • The Chamber – Sam Cayhall
  • Extreme Measures – Dr. Lawrence Myrick
  • Absolute Power – President Alan Richmond
  • Enemy of the State (2003 Fuji TV edition) – Edward "Brill" Lyle
  • Under Suspicion – Henry Hearst
  • Behind Enemy Lines – Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart^[12]
  • Heist – Joe Moore
  • The Royal Tenenbaums – Royal Tenenbaum^[13]
  • Runaway Jury – Rankin Fitch^[14]
• Anthony Hopkins
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1995 TV Asahi edition) – Hannibal Lecter
  • Hannibal – Hannibal Lecter^[15]
  • Red Dragon (2006 TV Tokyo edition) – Hannibal Lecter
  • The City of Your Final Destination – Adam Gund^[16]
• Peter Falk
  • Columbo – Lt. Columbo (Season 8~)
  • Undisputed – Mendy Ripstein
  • Next – Irv^[17]
• 48 Hrs. (1985 Nippon TV edition, as "Gentarō Ishida") – Jack Cates (Nick Nolte)^[18]
• About Schmidt – Warren R. Schmidt (Jack Nicholson)^[19]
• Alien 3 (1998 TV Asahi edition) – Leonard Dillon (Charles S. Dutton)
• The Amityville Horror (1982 NTV edition) – George Lutz (James Brolin)^[20]
• Apocalypse Now – Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando)
• Armour of God II: Operation Condor (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Adolf (Aldo Sambrell)
• Batman Begins – William Earle (Rutger Hauer)
• Batman Begins (2007 Nippon TV edition) – Carmine Falcone (Tom Wilkinson)
• Batman Returns (1994 TV Asahi edition) – Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin (Danny DeVito)
• Beginners – Hal Fields (Christopher Plummer)^[21]
• Ben-Hur (1979 Nippon TV edition) – Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston)
• Big Fish – Old Edward Bloom (Albert Finney)^[22]
• The Bridge on the River Kwai – Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa)
• Brokeback Mountain – Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid)^[23]
• The Cannonball Run (1984 Fuji TV edition) – Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing (Jack Elam)
• Cannonball Run II – Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing (Jack Elam)
• Cocoon – Walter (Brian Dennehy)
• Commando – Bennett (Vernon Wells)
• Conan the Barbarian (1985 Nippon TV edition) – Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones)
• Cop Land (2000 Nippon TV edition) – Ray Donlan (Harvey Keitel)
• Dances with Wolves – Kicking Bird (Graham Greene)
• The Departed – Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson)^[24]
• Die Hard 2 (1994 TV Asahi edition) – Trudeau (Fred Thompson)
• Die Hard with a Vengeance (1998 Fuji TV edition) – Inspector Walter Cobb (Larry Bryggman)
• The Empire Strikes Back (1992 TV Asahi edition) – Darth Vader (James Earl Jones)
• ER – Richard Elliot (Armand Assante)
• Evolution (2005 NTV edition) – Brigadier General Russell Woodman (Ted Levine)^[25]
• First Blood (1985 NTV, 1990 TBS and 1995 TV Asahi editions) – Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy)^[26]
• Godzilla (2001 NTV edition) – Mayor Ebert (Michael Lerner)
• Gone in 60 Seconds – Detective Roland Castlebeck (Delroy Lindo)^[27]
• Green Zone – Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson)^[28]
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer)^[29]
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1987 Nippon TV edition) – Mola Ram (Amrish Puri)
• K-9 (1993 TV Asahi edition) – Lyman (Kevin Tighe)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1981 TV Asahi edition) – Colonel Harry Brighton (Anthony Quayle)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Treebeard (John Rhys-Davies)^[30]
• Men in Black (2001 Nippon TV edition) – Chief Zed (Rip Torn)
• Men in Black II (2005 TV Asahi edition) – Chief Zed (Rip Torn)
• The NeverEnding Story – Falkor, Gmork (Alan Oppenheimer)^[31]
• Project A – San (Dick Wei)^[32]
• The Punisher – Jake Berkowitz (Louis Gossett Jr.)^[33]
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1993 DVD edition) – René Belloq (Paul Freeman)
• The Raven – Captain Charles Hamilton (Brendan Gleeson)^[34]
• Red 2 – Ivan Simanov (Brian Cox)^[35]
• Robin Hood – Sir Walter Loxley (Max von Sydow)^[36]
• The Running Man (1989 Fuji TV edition) – Damon Killian (Richard Dawson)^[37]
• Saw series – Jigsaw (Tobin Bell)^{[38][39][40][41]}
• Scarface (1989 TV Asahi edition) – Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia)
• The Shining (1996 TV Tokyo edition) – Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson)
• Silent Hill: Revelation – Leonard Wolf (Malcolm McDowell)^[42]
• Sleuth – Andrew Wyke (Michael Caine)^[43]
• The Smurfs 2 – Victor Doyle (Brendan Gleeson)
• The Sting (1991 TV Asahi edition) – Lieutenant William Snyder (Charles Durning)
• This Boy's Life – Dwight Hansen (Robert De Niro)^[44]

Animation

• The Book of Pooh – Eeyore
• Cars 2 – Mel Dorado^[45]
• The Fox and the Hound – Adult Copper
• The Little Mermaid (re-release edition) – King Triton
• The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea – King Triton
• Oliver and Company – Sykes
• Peter Pan (Buena Vista edition) – Indian Chief
• Planes – Skipper Riley
• Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin – Eeyore
• Shark Tale – Don Feinberg
• The Tigger Movie – Eeyore
• Winnie-the-Pooh – Eeyore

Japanese voiceover

• Peter Pan's Flight – Indian Chief
• Pooh's Hunny Hunt – Eeyore