Toshio Furukawa
Born: 1946-07-16 in Tochigi, Japan
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- Scarlet as Innkeeper (voice)
2024
- Dragon Ball DAIMA as Piccolo (voice)
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training- as Hantengu (voice)
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger 20th: Fireball Booster as Narrator
- Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc as Harabote Muscle (voice)
- Uzumaki as Yasuo Goshima (voice)
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger with Tombo Ohger as Narrator (voice)
- Dragon Ball Z Kai as Piccolo (voice) (archive footage)
- Harimaware! Koinu as Branch Chief (voice)
2023
- PLUTO as Ochanomizu (voice)
- The Birth of Kitaro: The Mystery of GeGeGe as A Mysterious Boy (voice)
- Akuma Kun as Mephisto 3 / Mephisto 2 (voice)
2022
- Urusei Yatsura as Ataru's Dad (voice)
- Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero as Piccolo (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island as Kai Shiden (voice)
- LUPIN ZERO as Lupin II (voice)
2020
- I'm Standing on a Million Lives as Game Master (voice)
- Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori
- Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga as Date Boo Masamune (voice)
2019
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba as Hantengu (voice)
- One Piece: Stampede as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
2018
- Super Dragon Ball Heroes as Picollo (voice)
- GeGeGe no Kitaro as Nezumi Otoko
- Pop Team Epic as Popuko (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin VI – Rise of the Red Comet as Kai Shiden (voice)
- Dragon Ball Super: Broly as Piccolo (voice)
2017
- One Piece Episode of East Blue as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V: Clash at Loum as Kai Shiden (voice
- Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D at Super Tenkaichi Budokai as Piccolo (voice)
2016
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin IV – Eve of Destiny as Kai Shiden (voice)
- Dragon Ball Z: The Real 4-D as Piccolo (voice)
2015
- Dragon Ball Super as Piccolo (voices)
- Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' as Piccolo (voice)
- Ushio and Tora as Yamanmoto (voice)
- Tamayura: Graduation Photo Part 3 - Akogare as Maon's Father
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: 10 Years After as Narrator
- One Piece Episode of Sabo: The Three Brothers' Bond - The Miraculous Reunion and the Inherited Will as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
2014
- One Piece "3D2Y": Overcome Ace's Death! Luffy's Vow to his Friends as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
2013
- Attack on Titan as Uri Reiss (voice)
- Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods as Piccolo (voice)
- Dream 9 Toriko x One Piece x Dragon Ball Z Super Collaboration Special!! as Piccolo (voice)
2012
- Detective Conan: The Eleventh Striker as Misao Yamamura (voice)
- Tsuritama as Heihachi (voice)
- Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie Wars Ultimatum as Wiseman (voice)
2011
- Hunter x Hunter as Satotz (voice)
2009
- Dragon Ball Z Kai as Piccolo (voice)
- Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser as Misao Yamamura (voice)
2008
- Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! as Piccolo (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: The Obstacle Course Swim Meet, It's a Rumic World: Urusei Yatsura as Ataru Morobishi (voice)
- It's a Rumic World: 50th Anniversary Weekly★Shonen Sunday as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
2007
- Cackling Kitarou as Aobouzu
- Dr. Slump: Dr. Mashirito and Abale-chan as Tarou Soramame (voice)
2006
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars as Kai Shiden (voice)
2005
- Eureka Seven
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation I: Heir to the Stars as Kai Shiden (voice)
- Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa as Erik Jan Hanussen (voice)
2004
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger THE MOVIE: Full Blast Action as Narrator (voice)
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger as Narrator
- Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey as Nyago (voice)
- Beet the Vandel Buster as ライオ / Raio
2003
- Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger DELUXE: Abare Summer is Freezing Cold! as Dimensionsal Drifter Galvidi
- Parasite Dolls as Bill Myers (voice)
- Air Master as Shiro Saeki
- Parasite Dolls as Bill Myers
2002
- Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter as Thanatos (voice)
- Patlabor WXIII The Movie as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
2001
- Metropolis as General/Skunk (voice)
2000
- The Aurora as Toru Enriques (voice)
1999
- One Piece as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
1997
- Cutie Honey Flash as Alphonne (voice)
1996
- Spooky Kitaro: The Great Sea Beast as Chinpo (voice)
- Dragon Ball GT as Piccolo (voice)
1994
- Ghost Sweeper Mikami as Ranmaru Mori (voice)
- Crying Freeman 6: The Guiding Light of Memory as Yo Hinomura (voice)
1993
- Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound as Piccolo (voice)
- Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan as Piccolo (voice)
- Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans as Piccolo (voice)
- Patlabor 2: The Movie as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
- Aoki Densetsu Shoot! as Yoshiharu Kubo
1992
- Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler as Piccolo (voice)
- Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! as Piccolo (voice)
- Crying Freeman 5: Abduction in Chinatown as Yo Hinomura (voice)
- Zôressha ga Yatte Kita
- Dragon Ball Z: Gather Together! Goku's World as Piccolo
1991
- Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge as Piccolo (voice)
- Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug as Piccolo (voice)
- Inferious Interplanetary War Chronicle - Condition Green as Celc Burton (voice)
- Crying Freeman 4: A Taste of Revenge as Yo Hinomura (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: Terror of Girly-Eyes Measles as Ataru (voice)
- Wizardry as Shin
- Bubblegum Crash as Leon McNichol
1990
- Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might as Piccolo (voice)
- Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest as Piccolo (voice)
- Crying Freeman 3: Shades of Death, Part 2 as Yo Hinomura (voice)
- Devil Boy: Welcome to Devil Land!!
- MAROKO as Inumaru Yomota (voice)
- A.D. Police Files as Leon (voice)
- Patlabor: The New Files as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
- MoMoKo as Kentarou Minami (voice)
1989
- Dragon Ball Z as Piccolo (voice)
- Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone as Piccolo (voice)
- Saint Seiya: Warriors of the Final Holy Battle as Mois (voice)
- Patlabor: The TV Series as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
- Patlabor: The Movie as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: Goat and Cheese as Ataru (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: Catch the Heart as Ataru (voice)
- Crying Freeman 2: Shades of Death, Part 1 as Yo Hinomura (voice)
- Devil Boy
- Urusei Yatsura: I Howl at the Moon as Ataru (voice)
- Hyper Psychic Geo Garaga
- Akuma-kun as Mephisto Jr.
- Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai! as Inumaru Yomota
1988
- Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure as Blue (voice)
- Saint Seiya: Legend of Crimson Youth as Berenike (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: The Final Chapter as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars as Olivier Poplin
- Appleseed as Calon Mautholos (voice)
- Mobile Suit SD Gundam as Kai Shiden
- Urusei Yatsura: Raging Sherbet as Ataru (Voice)
- Crying Freeman 1: Portrait of a Killer as Yo Hinomura/Lóng Tài-Yáng/Crying Freeman
- Maison Ikkoku: The Final Chapter as Sakamoto
- Urusei Yatsura: Nagisa's Fiancé as Ataru (voice)
- Antique Heart as Suzuki(voice)
- Crying Freeman as Yo Hinomura / Lóng Tài-Yáng / Freeman (voice)
- Patlabor: The Mobile Police as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
1987
- Bubblegum Crisis as Leon McNichol (voice)
- The Red Spectacles as Yakuza B
- Urusei Yatsura: Inaba the Dreammaker
- Lupin the Third: The Fuma Conspiracy as Arsène Lupin III (voice)
- Twilight of the Cockroaches as Fritz (voice)
- Winning Pitcher
- The Golden Bird as Prince Croyler (voice)
- Space Fantasia 2001 Nights as Adam
- Demon of Steel: Battle of the Great Demon Beasts as Takuya Gorozu (voice)
- Kamen no Ninja Akakage as Akakage (voice)
1986
- Gall Force: Eternal Story as OX-11 (voice)
- Maison Ikkoku as Sakamoto
- Fist of the North Star - TV Compilation 1 - Yuria, Forever... and Farewell Shin!! as Shin (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: Memorial Album as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
- Fist of the North Star as Shin (voice)
- They Were Eleven as Doricas Soldam IV
- The SuperGal as Shuryou Koganemaru (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: Lum the Forever as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
- Phoenix: Karma Chapter as Akanemaru (voice)
- Nayuta as Ryotaro (voice)
- Dragon Ball
- Animated Classics of Japanese Literature as Tatsuo (voice)
1985
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam as Kai Shiden
- Urusei Yatsura: Remember My Love as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: Ryoko's September Tea Party as Ataru (voice)
- Odin: Starlight Mutiny as Akira Tsukuba
1984
- Fist of the North Star as Shin
- The Kabocha Wine - Nita's Love Story as Shunsuke Aoba (voice)
- Lensman as Kimball Kinnison (voice)
- Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
- Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! The Treasure of Nanaba Castle as Tarou Soramame (voice)
- Galactic Patrol Lensman as Kimball Kinnison (voice)
- Little Love Story: Chitchi and Sally, Four Seasons of First Love as Sally
1983
- Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hoyoyo! The Great Race Around The World as Christopher Chris
- Urusei Yatsura: Only You as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
- The Red Shoes: Tokyo Rape Incident as Akihiko
- I Am A Dog: Don Matsugorou's Life
- Lightspeed Electroid Albegas as 円条寺大作
- Nana the Supergirl as Ogura
1982
- Dr. Slump: Hoyoyo! Space Adventure as Tarou Soramame (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space as Kai Shiden (voice)
- School in the Crosshairs
- Combat Mecha Xabungle as Bulme (voice)
- The♥Kabocha Wine as Shunsuke Aoba (voice)
- Armored Fleet Dairugger XV as AKI Manabu (voice)
1981
- Urusei Yatsura as Ataru Moroboshi
- Dr. Slump as Tarou Soramame (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow as Kai Shiden (voice)
- Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: Hello! Wonder Island as Tarou Soramame (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam I as Kai Shiden (voice)
- Queen Millennia as Amamori's Computer
- Call of the Wild: Howl, Buck as Perrault (voice)
- The Door Into Summer as Lindo (voice)
- Glorious Number 3
- Run Melos! as Pauze
- Robot King Daioja as エドワード・ミト
1980
- The Legend of Marine Snow
- Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey as Spirit of the Bread
- Trider G7 as Kenichi Ohyama
- X-Bomber as Ginga (voice)
1979
- Mobile Suit Gundam as Kai Shiden (voice)
- The Rose of Versailles as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
- Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage as Shigeru Sakamoto
- Future Robot Daltanious as Kento Tate (voice)
- Space Carrier Blue Noah as Domenico (voice)
1978
- Highschool Baseball Ninja as 堀田三吉
1977
- Planet Robot Danguard Ace as Hideo Oboshi (voice)
- Invincible Super Man Zambot 3 as Baleter
1976
- Magnet Robot Gakeen as Takeru (voice)