Isshin Chiba

Isshin Chiba
千葉一伸
Isshin Chiba; 千葉一伸
Born	June 26, 1968 (age 55); Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan
Occupation	Voice actor
Years active	1990-present
Agent	Arts Vision
Notable credits	Tekken; as Jin Kazama; Vampire/Darkstalkers; as Jedah Dohma; Detective Conan; as Kazunobu Chiba; .hack//Sign; as Silver Knight

Isshin Chiba (千葉一伸, Chiba Isshin, born June 26, 1968 in Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan) 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 Tekken 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. But, because he had no experience in such extracurricular activities in particular, he attended Katsuma Voice Actor's Academy in Tokyo. 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 Tekken fighting game series. Starting from Tekken 3, he voiced Jin in all other Tekken games, including crossovers Namco × Capcom, Street Fighter X Tekken, Project X Zone, Project X Zone 2 and adaptations Tekken: Blood Vengeance and the Japanese dub of the live-action Tekken film. This makes Isshin Chiba the fifth single actor playing a videogame character the longest, behind Ed Boon, who voices Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, Joseph D. Kucan, who voices Kane from Command & Conquer, Charles Martinet who voices Mario and Kunihiko Yasui who voices Iori Yagami from The King of Fighters.

Filmography

Television animation

1990

Karasu Tengu Kabuto (Chiryû)

1993

Casshan: Robot Hunter (Operator)

1994

Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Galactor Soldier, Submarine Operator)

1995

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (Soldier A, General Septem)
Sailor Moon Super S (Kitakata)

1996

Detective Conan (Kazunobu Chiba)

1999

Great Teacher Onizuka (Ryuji Danma, Hiroshi Kochatani)
Infinite Ryvius (Stein Heiger)

2002

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Arnold Neumann, Ledonir Kisaka)
.hack//SIGN (Silver Knight)
Chobits (Zima)

2003

F-Zero Falcon Densetsu (Clash, John Tanaka, Clank Hughes)

2005

Ginban Kaleidoscope (Kazuya Nitta)

2006

D.Gray-Man (65)
Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star (Karehaan)

2008

Junjou Romantica (Keiichi Sumi)

2009

Bleach (Koga Kuchiki)

2012

Accel World (Araya)

2015

Gintama (Ikeda Yaemon 18th)

Unknown date

Kirby of the Stars (Monsieur Goan, Yamikage)
Law of Ueki - Grano
Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (Chibiroku)
Naruto (Shimon Hijiri)
Naruto Special: Battle at Hidden Falls. I am the Hero! (Shibuki)
One Piece (Mikazuki, Hammond, Gladius)
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ (Scythe Master)
The Prince of Tennis (Michael Lee)
Samurai Champloo (Ichiemon)
Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold (Eikþyrnir Surt)
s-CRY-ed (Emergy Maxfell)
The Story of Saiunkoku Second Season (Anju Ryo)
Transformers: Micron Legend (Cyclonus)
Transformers: Superlink (Cyclonus/Snow Cat)

Movies

Big Wars (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)
Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem (2006) (Officer Chiba)
Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2011) (Jin Kazama)^[1]

OVA

Please Save My Earth (1993) (Takashi Matsudaira)
Fencer of Minerva (1994) (Harif)
Detective Conan: Conan and Heiji and the Vanished Boy (2003) (Yousuke Moriguchi)

Video games

Magical Drop II (1996) (Magician)
Street Fighter III: New Generation (1997) (Sean Matsuda)
Tekken 3 (1997) (Jin Kazama)
Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (1997) (Jedah Dohma)
Street Fighter III 2nd Impact: Giant Attack (1997) (Sean Matsuda)
Rival Schools: United by Fate (1997) (Kyosuke Kagami)
Legend of Legaia (1998) (Gi Delilas)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1998) (Dio Brando)
Tekken Tag Tournament (1999) (Jin Kazama)
Breath of Fire IV (2000) (Fou-Lu, Cray)
Project Justice (2000) (Kyosuke Kagami)
Grandia II (2001) (Melfice)
Tekken 4 (2001) (Jin Kazama)
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 (2001) (Kyosuke Kagami)
Tekken Advance (2001) (Jin Kazama)
.hack//Mutation (2002) (Silver Knight)
Tales of Destiny 2 (2002) (Magnadeus)
.hack//Outbreak (2002) (Silver Knight)
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (2003) (Albel Nox)
Capcom Fighting Jam (2004) (Jedah Dohma)
Tekken 5 (2004) (Jin Kazama)
Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song (2005) (Gray)
Namco × Capcom (2005) (Jin Kazama)
Fist of the North Star (2005) (Lei)
Tekken 6 (2007) (Jin Kazama)
Cross Edge (2008) (Jedah Dohma)
.hack//Link (2010) (Silver Knight)
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (2011) (Jin Kazama)
Tekken 3D: Prime Edition (2012) (Jin Kazama)
Street Fighter X Tekken (2012) (Jin Kazama)
Project X Zone (2012) (Jin Kazama, Jedah Dohma)
Tekken Revolution (2013) (Jin Kazama)
The Evil Within (2014) (Joseph Oda)
Dragon Ball Xenoverse (2015) (Time Patroller - Male 6)
Tekken 7 (2015) (Jin Kazama)
Project X Zone 2 (2015) (Jin Kazama)
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (2016) (Time Patroller - Male 6)

Unknown date

Tekken X Street Fighter (Jin Kazama)

Drama CD

Ai nante Kueru ka yo
Analyst no Yuutsu series 1: Benchmark ni Koi wo Shite (Yasunari Nogi)
Chikatetsu no Inu (Shinoda)
Deep Fear (Mookie Carver)
Jigoku Meguri 1: Jyou (Hideo Kirishima/Fugitive)
Hisoyaka na Jounetsu Series side story 2: Iro Koi (Kouichi Takeshima)
Mossore
Koi Himeyamo (Ootake)
Saint Seiya (Sagittarius Aiolos)
Synapse no Hitsugi (Kaidou)
S.O.S -secret ocean story- Episode 03 (Lawrence)

Tokusatsu

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max (1974) (Kamen Rider X)
Ultraman Neos (2000) (Ultraseven 21)
Kamen Rider Decade (2009) (Garulu)
Tensou Sentai Goseiger (2010) (Matroid Zuteru-S of the Mach)

Dubbing

Live-action

Reign of Assassins (Lei Bin (Shawn Yue))
Tekken (Jin Kazama (Jon Foo))

Animation

References

^ Katsuhiro Harada [@Harada_TEKKEN] (May 27, 2011). "TEKKEN BLOOD VENGENCE Japanese version Voice actors. Xiao = Maaya Sakamoto / Alisa = Yuki Matsuoka / Shin = Mamoru Miyano (cont..." (Tweet). Retrieved August 6, 2017 – via Twitter.
Katsuhiro Harada [@Harada_TEKKEN] (May 27, 2011). "...Cont) Kazuya = Masanori Shinohara / Jin = Isshin Chiba / Nina = Atsuko Tanaka / Anna = Akeno Watanabe / and more..." (Tweet). Retrieved August 6, 2015 – via Twitter.

External links

Isshin Chiba at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Isshin Chiba's ARTSVISION page

[1] Katsuhiro Harada [@Harada_TEKKEN] (May 27, 2011). "TEKKEN BLOOD VENGENCE Japanese version Voice actors. Xiao = Maaya Sakamoto / Alisa = Yuki Matsuoka / Shin = Mamoru Miyano (cont..." (Tweet). Retrieved August 6, 2017 – via Twitter.
Katsuhiro Harada [@Harada_TEKKEN] (May 27, 2011). "...Cont) Kazuya = Masanori Shinohara / Jin = Isshin Chiba / Nina = Atsuko Tanaka / Anna = Akeno Watanabe / and more..." (Tweet). Retrieved August 6, 2015 – via Twitter.

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