is a Japanese actor and

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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 ''

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''. 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

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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

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via Medium {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuroda, Takaya 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