is a Japanese actor and
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 ...
from Tokyo, Japan. He is affiliated with Axlone,
and was formerly with
Mausu Promotion
, formerly known as Ezaki Productions, is a Japanese talent management agency representing a number of prolific voice actors.
Attached voice actors
Male
* Yousuke Akimoto
* Shinya Fukumatsu
* Kenji Hamada
* Takanobu Hozumi
* Mitsuhiro Ichiki
...
and
81 Produce
is a voice talent management firm in Japan founded on 3 February 1981 (thus the year is the company's namesake). A hybrid CD-ROM featuring voice talent data for members of 81 Produce was released on 19 October 1997. The company is located in Sh ...
.
He is best known for his bass voice, which has usually seen him cast in villainous roles such as the voice of Yaiba in ''
GoGo Sentai Boukenger
is the 30th series in Toei Company, Toei's Super Sentai series, a metaseries of Japanese language, Japanese tokusatsu programming. It was the first installment to be broadcast in the 16:9 aspect ratio. It premiered on February 19, 2006, at 7:30 ...
''. He is best known to western audiences for providing the voice of
Kazuma Kiryu
is a fictional character and the protagonist of Sega's action-adventure beat'em'up Japanese role-playing game series ''Yakuza''. He is popularly known as due to the tattoo of a dragon on his back and him originally being a fearsome member of the ...
, the protagonist of the
''Like a Dragon'' series. Because of his vocal resemblance to the late
Hirotaka Suzuoki
was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture who graduated from Tokyo Keizai University.
His best known roles include ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' ( Bright Noa), '' Captain Tsubasa'' ( Kojirou Hyuga), ''Saint Seiya'' ( ...
, he was chosen to replace Suzuoki as the voice of
Starscream
Starscream is a fictional character in the ''Transformers'' media franchise. He is one of the most frequently occurring characters in the franchise, appearing in almost all of its different continuities. Starscream in generally depicted as the s ...
in ''
Transformers: Cybertron'' as Suzuoki's health deteriorated. Kuroda is also the lead singer of the rock band ''Takaya Kuroda & Goodfellas''.
Filmography
Animation
Film
Video games
Drama CDs
Live action
Dubbing roles
References
External links
*
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1965 births
Living people
Japanese male stage actors
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Male voice actors from Tokyo
Mausu Promotion voice actors
Tamagawa University alumni
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
81 Produce voice actors