is a Japanese voice actor who appeared in 35 films since he first started acting in 1990 and is best known for doing the voice of Jin Kazama from the ''

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'' series.

Biography

Isshin Chiba was born in Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan. He graduated from Miyagi Prefecture Kesennuma High School. After graduating from high school, he had the idea to become a stage actor. However, because he had no experience in such extracurricular activities in particular, he attended Katsuma Voice Actor's Academy in

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. He started his career as a voice actor at age 22 in 1990. In 1997, he landed the role for which he is best known, the role of Jin Kazama from the ''

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series. Starting from '' Tekken 3'', he voiced Jin in all other ''Tekken'' games, including crossovers ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Project X Zone'', '' Project X Zone 2'', ''

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'' and adaptations '' Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' and the Japanese dub of the live-action ''

'' film. This makes Isshin Chiba the sixth single actor playing a videogame character the longest, behind Ed Boon, who voices

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from ''

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'', Takenobu Mitsuyoshi who voices Kage Maru from '' Virtua Fighter'',

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who voices

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Filmography

Television animation

Movies

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'' (1993) – Operator *'' Detective Conan: Captured In Her Eyes'' (2000) – Detective Chiba *'' Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves'' (2001) – Crow Guard *'' Detective Conan: Countdown to Heaven'' (2001) – Detective Chiba *''

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'' (2005) – Barrel *'' Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem'' (2006) – Officer Chiba *'' Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' (2011) – Jin Kazama *'' Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan: The Movie'' (2013) – Detective Chiba *'' Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Sword Of Life And Death'' (2017) – Tie Di Xian *'' The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran'' (2019) – Arthur von Streit

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'' (2019) – Norikazu Kagami *'' Tekken: Bloodline'' (2022) – Jin Kazama

OVA

*'' Please Save My Earth'' (1993) – Takashi Matsudaira *''

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'' (1994) – Harif *''Detective Conan: Conan and Heiji and the Vanished Boy'' (2003) – Yousuke Moriguchi

Video games

Drama CD

*'' Jigoku Meguri 1: Jyou'' – Hideo Kirishima/Fugitive (1988) *''

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'' – Sagittarius Aiolos (1997) *''

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'' – Mookie Carver (1998) *''Analyst no Yuutsu'' series 1: ''Benchmark ni Koi wo Shite'' – Yasunari Nogi (2002) *'' Hisoyaka na Jounetsu'' Series side story 2: ''Iro Koi'' – Kouichi Takeshima (2003) *''Mossore'' (2003) *'' Synapse no Hitsugi'' – Kaidou (2007) *''Ai nante Kueru ka yo'' (2008) *'' Koi Himeyamo'' – Ootake (2010) *'' Chikatetsu no Inu'' – Shinoda (2011) *'' S.O.S -secret ocean story-'' (Ep 3) – Lawrence (2016)

Tokusatsu

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'' (2000) – Ultraseven 21 (eps. 2, 4, 6, 10 - 12) *''

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'' (2009) – Garulu (ep. 4 - 5) *'' Tensou Sentai Goseiger'' (2010) – Matroid Zuteru-S of the Mach (ep. 35) *'' Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max'' (2011) –

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*'' Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger'' (2018) – Zarudan Hou (ep. 20)

Dubbing

References

External links

*
Isshin Chiba's ARTSVISION page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chiba, Isshin 1968 births Living people Male voice actors from Miyagi Prefecture Japanese male video game actors Japanese male voice actors People from Kesennuma, Miyagi 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors Arts Vision voice actors