is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He is represented with
Horipro Booking Agency. He
rusticated from
Waseda University
, mottoeng = Independence of scholarship
, established = 21 October 1882
, type = Private
, endowment =
, president = Aiji Tanaka
, city = Shinjuku
, state = Tokyo
, country = Japan
, students = 47,959
, undergrad = 39,382
, postgrad ...
First Literature Department.
Biography
Owada is the youngest son of three children. (he has an older brother and sister)
In 1965, he entered to a free stage by
Tadashi Suzuki
is a Japanese avant-garde theatre director, writer, and philosopher.
He is the founder and director of the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT), and organizer of Japan’s first international theatre festival (Toga Festival). With American director A ...
while entering university.
In 1968, Owada joined
Shiki Theatre Company
is one of Japan's best-known and largest theatre companies. Shiki Theatre Company employs over 800 actors and staff, and stages about 2800 performances a year. Shiki Theatre Company operates nine theaters for their exclusive use. Originally, ...
.
He became widely known as the heroine's husband on ''Ai yori Aoku'' in 1972.
In 1977, Owada's first leading role in a film was ''Inugami no Akuryō''.
He co-starred with
Kin'ya Kitaōji
is a Japanese actor.
Biography
Early life
He was born in Kyoto, son of '' jidaigeki'' film star Ichikawa Utaemon, and graduated from Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences II in Tokyo.
Acting career
Kin'ya made his debut with ...
in ''
Medea
In Greek mythology, Medea (; grc, Μήδεια, ''Mēdeia'', perhaps implying "planner / schemer") is the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios. Medea figures in the myth of Jason an ...
'' directed by
Yukio Ninagawa
was a Japanese theatre director, actor and film director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He directed eight distinct renditions of ''Hamlet.'' Ninagawa was also emeritus of the ...
.
Owada made his first appearance in a Chinese film as a Japanese in ''Honō no Onna Shūkin''.
He played as a minor in ''Mito Kōmon'', in which his character firstly established the verbal phrase "''Kochira ni owasu Okata o Donata to Kokoroeru! Osoreōku mo Mae no Fuku Shōgun, Mito Mitsukunikō ni Ara se rareru zo!!''" ("A man who knows who you are here will know what to do! Fearfully you will be made to exist in the former deputy general, Mito Mitsukuni!!") to state when stamping a seal basket (''Super Friday: Mito Kōmon Special'' (Tokyo Broadcasting System, aired 25 July 2003)).
In the Japanese dub version of ''
The Lion King
''The Lion King'' is a 1994 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 32nd Disney animated feature film and the fifth produced during the Disney Renaissance ...
'' Owada is known for voicing King Mufasa.
Filmography
TV dramas
Films
Anime television
Anime films
Video games
Dubbing
Supervision works
Productions
Discography
References
Notes
External links
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Shinya Owadaat all cinema
Shinya Owadaat Kinenote
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Shinya Owadaat Movie Walker
Shinya Owadaat the TV Drama Database
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Japanese male film actors
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Horipro artists
People from Tsuruga, Fukui
Male voice actors from Fukui Prefecture
1947 births
Living people
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors