Toshio Furukawa


Toshio Furukawa is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator affiliated with Aoni Production. He is married to fellow voice actress Shino Kakinuma.
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Career

He became famous for his roles in his career as Kagege, Kai Shiden, Shin, Asuma Shinohara, Piccolo, Ataru Moroboshi, Portgas D. Ace, Jann Lee and Misao Yamamura. 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 and Kento Tate of Future Robo Daltanius.
He performed in the band Slapstick with Tōru 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.
Furukawa owns a pet dog named Asuma, a Shih Tzu that was named after Asuma Shinohara of Patlabor. His former pet was Ataru, 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

Original video animation (OVA)

Original net animation (ONA)

Video games

Tokusatsu

Live-action film

Live-action television

Dubbing roles

Live-action

Animation