Toshio Furukawa

Known for ActingBorn 1946-07-16 (age 79)Tochigi, Japan

Toshio Furukawa (古川登志夫, Furukawa Toshio, born July 16, 1946 in what is now part of the city of Tochigi) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator affiliated with Aoni Production. He became famous for his roles in his career as Kagege (Keroro Gunso), Kai Shiden (Mobile Suit Gundam), Shin (Fist of the North Star), Asuma Shinohara (Mobile Police Patlabor), Piccolo (Dragon Ball), Ataru Moroboshi (Urusei Yatsura) and Portgas D. Ace (One Piece). His debut voice role is a soldier in Brave Raideen. Toshio is a veteran who has played a variety of characters from comedians like Ataru of Urusei Yatsura and Inumaru of Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!, to calm, serious ones like Shin from Fist of the North Star and Piccolo of the Dragon Ball series. Furthermore, Toshio is capable of performing with a "boy voice" and has played noble hot-blooded heroes such as Prince Mito of Saikyō Robo Daiōja and Kento Tate of Future Robo Daltanius. He performed in the band Slapstick (スラップスティック) with Toru Furuya, Kazuyuki Sogabe, Yūji Mitsuya and Akio Nojima. In 2007, Slapstick got together to pay tribute to former band members, Hirotaka Suzuoki and Kazuyuki Sogabe (guitar). Furukawa owns a pet dog named Asuma (遊馬), a Shih Tzu that was named after Asuma Shinohara of Patlabor. His former pet was Ataru (あたる), which was named after Ataru Moroboshi of Urusei Yatsura. Ataru died in 2008 at age fifteen and was also a Shih Tzu. Tribute pages were made for both pets.Read more

Movies & web series

The Golden Bird

Patlabor: The New Files

Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

Attack on Titan

Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey

Hunter x Hunter

Cackling Kitarou

One Piece

Magnet Robot Gakeen

Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: 10 Years After

Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger

Dragon Ball DAIMA

Dragon Ball Super

Queen Millennia

Dragon Ball Z

Nana the Supergirl

Air Master

Ushio and Tora

Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball Super: Broly

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

The Rose of Versailles

It's a Rumic World: 50th Anniversary Weekly★Shonen Sunday

PLUTO

Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter

One Piece: Stampede

One Piece Episode of East Blue

Lightspeed Electroid Albegas

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V: Clash at Loum

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin IV – Eve of Destiny

Fist of the North Star

Robot King Daioja

Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D

Super Dragon Ball Heroes

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars

Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 20th: Fireball Booster

Dr. Slump

X-Bomber

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin VI – Rise of the Red Comet

Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Dragon Ball GT

The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe

Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth

Dragon Ball Z Kai

Space Fantasia 2001 Nights

Scarlet