Toshio Furukawa
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.
Born: July 16, 1946
Place of Birth: Tochigi, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Innkeeper (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Yasuo Goshima (voice)
as Harabote Muscle (voice)
as Piccolo (voice) (archive footage)
as Narrator (voice)
as Hantengu (voice)
as Branch Chief (voice)
as A Mysterious Boy (voice)
as Mephisto 3 / Mephisto 2 (voice)
as Ochanomizu (voice)
as Lupin II (voice)
as Ataru's Dad (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Kai Shiden (voice)
as Game Master (voice)
as Date Boo Masamune (voice)
as Hantengu (voice)
as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Picollo (voice)
as Kai Shiden (voice)
as Nezumi Otoko
as Popuko (voice)
as Kai Shiden (voice
as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Kai Shiden (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Maon's Father
as Narrator
as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
as Piccolo (voices)
as Yamanmoto (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
as Uri Reiss (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Wiseman (voice)
as Misao Yamamura (voice)
as Heihachi (voice)
as Satotz (voice)
as Misao Yamamura (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Ataru Morobishi (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
as Aobouzu
as Tarou Soramame (voice)
as Kai Shiden (voice)
as Erik Jan Hanussen (voice)
as Kai Shiden (voice)
as ライオ / Raio
as Narrator (voice)
as Nyago (voice)
as Narrator
as Dimensionsal Drifter Galvidi
as Bill Myers
as Bill Myers (voice)
as Shiro Saeki
as Thanatos (voice)
as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
as General/Skunk (voice)
as Toru Enriques (voice)
as Portgas D. Ace (voice)
as Alphonne (voice)
as Chinpo (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Ranmaru Mori (voice)
as Yo Hinomura (voice)
as Yoshiharu Kubo
as Piccolo (voice)
as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Yo Hinomura (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Celc Burton (voice)
as Yo Hinomura (voice)
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Ataru (voice)
as Leon McNichol
as Piccolo (voice)
as Shin
as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
as Kentarou Minami (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Leon (voice)
as Yo Hinomura (voice)
as Inumaru Yomota (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Ataru (voice)
as Ataru (voice)
as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
as Ataru (voice)
as Inumaru Yomota
as Yo Hinomura (voice)
as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Piccolo (voice)
as Mephisto Jr.
as Mois (voice)
as Ataru (voice)
as Ataru (Voice)
as Yo Hinomura / Lóng Tài-Yáng / Freeman (voice)
as Sakamoto
as Yo Hinomura/Lóng Tài-Yáng/Crying Freeman
as Berenike (voice)
as Blue (voice)
as Suzuki(voice)
as Asuma Shinohara (voice)
as Calon Mautholos (voice)
as Kai Shiden
as Olivier Poplin
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
as Arsène Lupin III (voice)
as Takuya Gorozu (voice)
as Fritz (voice)
as Akakage (voice)
as Adam
as Prince Croyler (voice)
as Leon McNichol (voice)
as Yakuza B
as Akanemaru (voice)
as Doricas Soldam IV
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
as Ryotaro (voice)
as OX-11 (voice)
as Shuryou Koganemaru (voice)
as Tatsuo (voice)
as Sakamoto
as Shin (voice)
as Piccolo Jr. (voice)
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
as Ataru (voice)
as Akira Tsukuba
as Kai Shiden
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
as Tarou Soramame (voice)
as Shin
as Kimball Kinnison (voice)
as Shunsuke Aoba (voice)
as Kimball Kinnison (voice)
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
as Akihiko
as Ogura
as 円条寺大作
as Christopher Chris
as Ataru Moroboshi (voice)
as Tarou Soramame (voice)
as Shunsuke Aoba (voice)
as Kai Shiden (voice)
as AKI Manabu (voice)
as Bulme (voice)
as Ataru Moroboshi
as Tarou Soramame (voice)
as Kai Shiden (voice)
as Amamori's Computer
as Tarou Soramame (voice)
as Lindo (voice)
as Kai Shiden (voice)
as Pauze
as エドワード・ミト
as Perrault (voice)
as Ginga (voice)
as Kenichi Ohyama
as Spirit of the Bread
as Domenico (voice)
as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
as Shigeru Sakamoto
as Kai Shiden (voice)
as Kento Tate (voice)
as 堀田三吉
as Baleter
as Shingo
as Uchuuta Kamie
as Hideo Oboshi (voice)
as Takeru (voice)
as Ultraman (voice)