, better known by the stage name , was a Japanese

voice actor Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ...

born in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. He was employed by the talent management firm

Aoni Production is a Japanese talent agency representing a fair number of voice actors and other Japanese entertainers. Voice actors currently affiliated with Aoni All names are in Western order (given name followed by family/last name). * Mai Aizawa *Ken ...

. Between the ages of three and six, Azusa was trained in the

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

. At the age of five, he was given the name Kinzō Azusa. On May 1, 1962, Azusa undertook the establishment of a coaching foundation, Gekidan Geikyō (currently represented by

Takeshi Aono was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Asahikawa, Hokkaidō. He was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death. He graduated from Hokkaidō Asahikawa Higashi High School. Career Aono was most known for the roles of Shi ...

). Azusa died in 1997 at the age of 66.

Anime

TV

*'' Dragon Ball Z'' (Mūri) **'' Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku'' (

Grandpa Son Gohan ''Dragon Ball'' is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984. The franchise features an ensemble cast of characters and takes place in the same fictional universe as Toriyama's other work, '' Dr. Slump''. While many of the ch ...

) *'' Dragon Quest'' (Chōrō) **'' Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai'' (King Romosu) *'' Fortune Quest'' (Mishuran) *''

Kiteretsu Daihyakka is a Japanese manga series by duo Fujiko Fujio and later Fujiko F. Fujio, which ran in the children's magazine '' Kodomo no Hikari'' from April 1974 to July 1977. The manga was later made into a 331-episode anime television series which ran ...

'' (Heikichi) *'' Meiken Joly'' (Philippe) *'' Paul no Miracle Taisakusen'' (Detective Tokkamēru) *'' Pro Golfer Saru'' (Kyūsei) *''

Time Bokan is a Japanese anime series first aired on Fuji TV from October 4, 1975 to December 25, 1976 throughout Japan every Saturday at 6:30pm, with a total of 61 30-minute episodes. It was produced by Tatsunoko Productions in partnership with Topcraft ...

'' (Nariikin)

OVA

*'' Aladdin and the King of Thieves'' (Sultan) *''

Legend of the Galactic Heroes , sometimes abbreviated as ''LOTGH'', ''LOGH'' or in Japanese (and also depicted as ''Heldensagen vom Kosmosinsel'' in the anime intro), is a series of science fiction novels written by Yoshiki Tanaka. In humanity's distant fu ...

'' (Wilhelm von Klopstock) *''

The Return of Jafar ''The Return of Jafar'' (sometimes marketed as ''Aladdin: The Return of Jafar'' on re-release) is a 1994 American direct-to-video animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Television. It is the first sequel to the 1992 fi ...

'' (Sultan)

Movies

*''

The Castle of Cagliostro is a 1979 Japanese animated action-adventure comedy film co-written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, with animation produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS). It is the second feature film featuring Monkey Punch's master thief Arsène Lupin III, ...

'' (Archbishop) *'' Ge Ge Ge no Kitarō: Gekitotsu!! Ijigen Yōkai no Daihanran'' (Mizugi-sensei) *'' Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler'' (Mūri) *'' Sangokushi 3: Haruka naru Daichi'' (Wang Lei)

Voice-over work

*'' Keiji Eden: Tsuisekisha'' (Rebi)

Production

Azusa produced or took part in the following plays, listed in alphabetical order. *'' Daddy-Long-Legs'' *''Haha wo Tazunete'' *''

The Wild Swans The Wild Swans ( Danish: ''De vilde svaner'') is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her 11 brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. The tale was first published on 2 October 1838 in Andersen's ...

'' *''

Ivan the Fool Ivan the Fool () or Ivan the Ninny is a lucky fool stock character who appears in Russian folklore, a very simple-minded, but, nevertheless, lucky young man. Ivan is described as a likeable fair-haired and blue-eyed youth. The approximate se ...

'' *''

The Little Match Girl "The Little Match Girl" ( da, Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the sulphur-sticks", i.e. matches) is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dre ...

'' *''Poetical Collage'' *''Shi to Rōdoku no Yūbe''

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Azusa, Kinpei 1931 births 1997 deaths Japanese male voice actors Male voice actors from Fukushima Prefecture 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors Aoni Production voice actors Deaths from cancer in Japan Deaths from laryngeal cancer