Kaneto Shiozawa
Born: 1954-01-28 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2000-05-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kaneto Shiozawa, born Toshikazu Shiozawa on January 28, 1954, in Tokyo, Japan, was a renowned Japanese voice actor and narrator. He was known for his distinctive calm and aristocratic voice, which often led to him being cast as intellectual or villainous characters. His stage name was inspired by the Japanese director Kaneto Shindō. Shiozawa's career spanned from 1975 until his untimely death in 2000. He voiced iconic characters such as Rei in Fist of the North Star, M'Quve in Mobile Suit Gundam, Iason in Ai No Kusabi and Gray Fox in Metal Gear Solid. He also portrayed Prince Demande in Sailor Moon and Devimon in Digimon Adventure. His contributions extended to video games, anime, and even dubbing roles, including Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Tragically, Shiozawa passed away on May 10, 2000, at the age of 46, due to a cerebral contusion caused by a fall at his home. His legacy lives on through the memorable characters he brought to life and the admiration of fans and fellow voice actors alike.
Filmography
2026
- 聖闘士星矢 as Mū (voice)
2022
- Detective Conan: Love Story at Police Headquarters ~Wedding Eve~ as Ninzaburou Shiratori (voice)
2017
- 名探偵コナン特別編コレクション as Ninzaburou Shiratori (voice)
2007
2000
- Detective Conan: Captured in Her Eyes as Inspector Shiratori (voice)
1999
- Monster Rancher as Gali (voice)
- Crest of the Stars as Dusanyu Abriel (voice)
- Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century as Ninzaburo Shiratori (voice)
- Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle as Buriburizaemon (voice)
1998
- Seijuu Sentai Gingaman as Businera (voice)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! as Shadi (voice)
- DT Eightron as Count Izento (voice)
- Silent Möbius as Ganossa Maximillian
- Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target as Ninzaburou Shiratori (voice)
- Legend of Basara
- Ninja Resurrection as Tamiya Botaro Kunimune (voice)
- Dragon Knight 4: Wheel of Time as Lucifon
- Slayers Gorgeous as Thornfort (voice)
- Crayon Shin-chan: Blitzkrieg! Pig's Hoof's Secret Mission as Buriburizaemon (voice)
- Dragon Knight: Wheel of Time as Lucifon
- Kashou no Tsuki: Aki Kyougen
1997
- Kindaichi Case Files as Kyoji Sayama
- AIKa as Rudolf Hagen (voice)
- Speed Racer X as Handler
- Voogie's Angel as Leon Cougar (voice)
- Detective Conan: The Time Bombed Skyscraper as Ninzaburou Shiratori (voice)
- Crayon Shin-chan: Pursuit of the Balls of Darkness as Lavender (voice)
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City as Thomas Medison (voice)
- Slayers Great as Granion's Aid (voice)
- Twilight of the Dark Master as Kudou (voice)
- Gegege no Kitaro: Yokai Express! The Phantom Train as Vampire (voice)
1996
- Battle Arena Toshinden as Duke (voice)
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Galaxy Super-express as Bom (voice)
- Crayon Shin-chan: Great Adventure In Henderland as Buriburizaemon (voice)
1995
- Street Fighter II: V as Vega
- Chouriki Sentai Ohranger as Bara-Brain (voice)
- Lesson XX as 正人(voice)
- Super Atragon as Young Mitsugu (voice)
- Cosplay Warrior Cutie Knight as Captain Narayama
1994
- Magic Knight Rayearth
- Red Baron as Kômei Ryû
- Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie as Vega (voice)
- Gatchaman as Berg Katse (voice)
- Crayon Shin-chan: The Hidden Treasure of the Buri Buri Kingdom as Saari (voice)
- GATCHAMAN as Berg Katse
- Love Wedge 2 as Iason Mink (voice)
- Grappler Baki: The Ultimate Fighter as Kosho Shinogi
- Crying Freeman 6: The Guiding Light of Memory as Choko Tateoka (voice)
- Monster Planet of Godzilla
1993
- Miracle Girls as Hideaki Kurashige (voice)
- Dragon Half as Rosario (voice)
- Kamen Rider SD: Strange?! Kumo Otoko as Shadow Moon (voice)
1992
- Sailor Moon as Prince Demand (voice)
- Ellcia as Felkis
- Ai no Kusabi as Iason (voice)
- D-1 Devastator as ユーリ・ツボレフ
- The Heroic Legend of Arslan II
- Love Wedge 1 as Iason Mink (voice)
- Bite Me! Chameleon
1991
- The Heroic Legend of Arslan: Age of Heroes as Narsus (voice)
- Ariel Deluxe as Albert Houser
- Ranma 1/2 the Movie: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China as Prince Kirin (voice)
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III as Emperor Neo (voice)
- Judge as Hoichiro Ohma (voice)
- Ariel Deluxe as Hauser (voice)
- The Heroic Legend of Arslan
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story II as Emperor Neo (voice)
- The Ultimate Esper R as R
1990
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water as Emperor Neo (voice)
- Cyber City Oedo 808 as Merrill 'Benten' Yanagawa (voice)
- The Enemy's the Pirates! as Herbert Katz (voice)
- Cyber City Oedo 808 as Merrill Benten Yanagawa
- 変幻退魔夜行 カルラ舞う！ 仙台小芥子怨歌
- Aries: Shinwa no Seizakyuu as Keisuke Izumi / Zeus
- Vampire Wars as Muraki (voice)
- Transformers: Zone as Sonic Bomber (voice)
- Carol as Clark
- Tengai Makyou: Ziria Oboro Hen
- Milky Passion: Dougenzaka - The Castle of Love as Takuma (voice)
- Far East of Eden: Ziria's Dreamlike Chapter
1989
- Venus Wars as Donner
- Saint Seiya: Warriors of the Final Holy Battle as Mü (voice)
- Earthian as Dr. Ashino (voice)
- Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma
- Expunged Chronicle of Miroku
- Wrath of the Ninja: The Yotoden Movie as Mori Ranmaru
- Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma as Marô (voice)
- ARIEL: All Round Intercept & Escort Lady as Hauser (voice)
- The Tale of Osamu Tezuka: I'm Son-Goku as Sanzo (voice)
- Hello Kitty in Cinderella as Prince Michael (voice)
- The Enemy's the Pirates!: The Cats' Banquet
- Hades Project: Zeorymer Extinction as Saiga (voice)
- Karura Mau Movie
1988
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes as Paul von Oberstein (voice)
- Transformers: Super-God Masterforce as Road King (Autobots - Godmasters)
- Crying Freeman as Choko Tateoka (voice)
- Hades Project Zeorymer as (voice)
- Vampire Princess Miyu as Larva
- One Pound Gospel as Jiro Amakusa (voice)
- Vampire Princess Miyu as Larva (voice)
- Madonna as Kyōichi Daigo
- Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter as Rupa (voice)
- Charge!! Men's Private School as Sir Royal the Third (voice)
- Sunlight All Around! Ka - su - mi: You Were in My Dreams as Shin Mikimoto (voice)
- Zillion: Burning Night as Gerdock (voice)
- Hades Project: Zeorymer Separation as Saiga (voice)
- Bride of Deimos as Kaname Ooba (voice)
- Fist of the North Star - TV Compilation 2 - Six Sacred Fists of Nanto! Rei, the Star of Justice as Rei (voice)
- The Tokyo Project as Akira Nagareyama (voice)
- Antique Heart as Matsuda(voice)
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Red Shoulder Document - Origin of Ambition as Byman Hagard
1987
- Kimagure Orange Road as Matsuda sensei
- Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics as Bear / Prince (voice)
- Bubblegum Crisis as J.B. Gibson (voice)
- Kamen no Ninja Akakage as Kasimaru (voice)
- Robot Carnival as Denjirō
- Lupin the Third: The Fuma Conspiracy as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (voice)
- Robot Carnival as Denjiro (voice)
- Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru Kana as Auguste Beau (voice)
- Phoenix: Space Chapter as Taiin
- TWD Express: Rolling Takeoff as Duke Starn (voice)
- A Tale of Two Robots, Chapter 3: Foreign Invasion as Denjirō
- TO-Y as To-Y / To-y Fujii (voice)
- Hell Target as Jean Miaura (voice)
- Bats & Terry as Teru 'Terry' Ichimonji (voice)
1986
- Spaceship Sagittarius as Pikason (voice)
- Saint Seiya as Mū (voice)
- Heart Cocktail
- Wonder Beat Scramble as Zuda Shougun
- Bomber Bikers of Shonan as Yōsuke Eguchi (voice)
- Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage as Shin Kazama
- Fist of the North Star as Rei (voice)
- Pro Golfer Saru: Super Golf World e no Chousen!! as 変奇プロ
- Phoenix: Karma Chapter
- Roots Search as Scott (voice)
- California Crisis: Gun Salvo as Jack (voice)
- Touch: The Ace Without a Number as Takeshi Kuroki (voice)
- Delpower X Bakuhatsu Miracle Genki!
- Girl Detective Club as (voice)
- Seito Shokun! Kokoro ni Midori no Neckerchief wo as (voice)
1985
- Touch as Takeshi Kuroki (voice)
- Blue Comet SPT Layzner as Le-Cain
- High School! Kimengumi
- Dancougar – Super Beast Machine God as Ryo Shiba
- Vampire Hunter D as D (voice)
- Dream Hunter Rem as Julian (voice)
- Fight!! Iczer-One as Big Gold / Sir Violet (voice)
- Megazone 23 as BD (voice)
- Area 88 as Shin Kazama (voice)
- Area 88 Act I: The Blue Skies of Betrayal as Shin Kazama
- GoShogun: The Time Étranger as Leonardo Medici Bundle (voice)
- Area 88 Act II: The Requirements of Wolves as Shin Kazama
- Area 88 as Shin Kazama
- The Dagger of Kamui as Shingo
- The Three-Eyed One: The Prince of Devil Island as Kido (voice)
- Karuizawa Syndrome as Kouhei Aizawa (voice)
- Kinnikuman: Hour-of-Triumph! Justice Superman
- Kinnikuman: Counterattack! Hidden Space Superman
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS: The Last Red Shoulder as Byman Hagard
1984
- Fist of the North Star as Rei
- Dream Fighter Wingman as Shaft (voice)
- Adventures of the Little Koala as ウェザー
- Ranpou as やす夫
- Twin Hawks as 東条鷹
- Nine: Final as Eiji Kurahashi (voice)
- Kenya Boy as Wakagi (voice)
- Birth as Junobel Kim
- The Kabocha Wine - Nita's Love Story as Takizawa (voice)
1983
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS as Byman Hagard (voice)
- Future Police Urashiman as Ludvich
- Aishite Knight as Touno Eiji
- Miyuki as Yoshio Muraki (voice)
- Harmagedon as Shirô Eda (voice)
- A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose as Taro (voice)
- Aesop's Fables
- The Green Cat as Sanbo Yuno (voice)
- I Am A Dog: Don Matsugorou's Life
1982
- Galactic Gale Baxinger as Shiro Mahoraba
- Space Runaway Ideon: Contact as Joliver Ira (voice)
- Arcadia of My Youth as Additional Voices
- GoShogun as Leonardo Medici Bundle (voice)
- Andromeda Stories as Arc (voice)
1981
- J9 Series as ロック
- Miss Machiko as Mr. Fukuoka (voice)
- Fang of the Sun Dougram as Roil
- Hello! Sandybell as Mark Branch Wellington (voice)
- Belle and Sebastian as Giom (voice)
- GoShogun as Leonardo Medici Bundle (voice)
- Braiger as Jotaro Kidou
- Mobile Suit Gundam I as Omur (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow as Ma Kube (voice)
- The Monster of Frankenstein as Detective 2 (voice)
- Space Warriors Baldios as Marin (voice)
- The Door Into Summer as Gabriel (voice)
- Bokura Mangaka: Tokiwa-sou Monogatari as つのだじろう
1980
- Space Warrior Baldios as Marin Reigan (voice)
- Phoenix 2772 as Godo (voice)
- Fumoon as Rock Holmes (voice)
1979
- Mobile Suit Gundam as M'Quve (voice)
- Ganbare! Bokura no Hit and Run as 彦丸
1978
- Future Boy Conan as Crew Member (voice)
1977
- Homerun Kanta as 戸馳二郎
1976
- Dokaben as 生徒A