Hochu Otsuka

Acting

Born May 19, 1954, Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan

Hochu Otsuka (大塚 芳忠, Ōtsuka Hōchū, born Yoshitada Ōtsuka [same kanji], May 19, 1954) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator affiliated with the talent management firm Crazy Box. He is best known for his roles as the voices of Kyao Mirao in Heavy Metal L-Gaim; Yazan Gable in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam; Akira Sendō in Slam Dunk; SignalMan in Gekisou Sentai Carranger; Imagin, Deneb in Kamen Rider Den-O, Abuto in Gintama, Makoto Sōda in Captain Tsubasa and Jiraiya in Naruto. He is also the famous official dubbing roles for Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donnie Yen (especially in Ip Man series), Jeff Goldblum, Ray Liotta, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Brent Spiner, Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Patrick and many more.

Filmography

• Akane-banashi — Miroku Kashiwaya (voice)
• 2026Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Die Graue Hexe - Part 1 — Vid Hildebrandt (voice)
• BLACK TORCH — (voice)
• 2026Be Forever Yamato - Rebel 3199 - Part 6: Blue Labyrinth — 真田志郎
• 2026Be Forever Yamato Rebel 3199 - Part 5: White Heat Galactic War — 真田　志郎
• Dara-san of Reiwa
• 2026Gintama the Movie 2026: Yoshiwara in Flames — Abuto (voice)
• Love Through a Prism — Charles Brant (voice)
• 2026Patlabor EZY File 2 — Kanji Kunikida (voice)
• SHIBOYUGI: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table — Jinmenju (voice)
• 2026That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea — Hakuro (voice)
• Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective — Ryuichiro Kuwata (voice)
• 2025Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League — Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
• 2025Be Forever Yamato Rebel 3199: Part 4: Light Blue Maiden (Sasha)
• 2025Butt Detective the Movie: Star and Moon — Kaitō G (voice)
• CITY THE ANIMATION — Narration (voice)
• 2025Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle — Sakonji Urokodaki (voice)
• 2025Dream Animals the Movie — King Gotton (voice)
• 2025Golden Kamuy: The Lightning Bandit and O-Gin the Viper / Shimaenaga
• I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class — Tenryu Hojo (voice)
• Lazarus — Committee Chairman (voice)
• 2025MLB x Demon Slayer — Sakonji Urokodaki
• Ninja vs. Gokudo
• Princession Orchestra — Sergeant Duck (voice)
• SAKAMOTO DAYS — Takamura (voice)
• 2025The Rose of Versailles — Louis XV (voice)
• The Water Magician — (voice)
• Umamusume: Cinderella Gray — Ginjirou Musaka (voice)
• 2024Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199: Part 1: Dark Invasion — Sanada Shirō (voice)
• Delicious in Dungeon — Freinag (voice)
• Dungeon People — Renfringe (voice)
• 2024Fureru — (voice)
• Go! Go! Loser Ranger! — Lord Peltrola (voice)
• 2024KIZUMONOGATARI -Koyomi Vamp- — Guillotinecutter (voice) (archive footage)
• 2024Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM — Alexei Konoe (voice)
• Murai in Love — Narrator (voice)
• Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF — Richten Marlheit (voice)
• Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 — Shirou Sanada (voice)
• Suicide Squad Isekai — The Thinker (voice)
• Tis Time for "Torture," Princess — Jimochi (voice)
• Tokyo Override — Kageyama (Lizard) (voice)
• Wistoria: Wand and Sword — Aron Masterius Oldeking (voice)
• 2024ダメな奴 ～ラッパー紅桜 刑務所からの再起～ — Narration
• Alice Gear Aegis Expansion — Souitiro Iwata (voice)
• 2023Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King — Edward Avalaché (voice)
• Dark Gathering — Alien Doll Spirit (voice)
• Me and Moffun — Moffun (voice)
• My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer — Graham (voice)
• Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger — Moffun (voice)
• Onimusha — Kensuke Matsui (voice)
• Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts — Galois (voice)
• Spy Classroom — Uwe (voice)
• The Dangers in My Heart — Ken Kataoka (voice)
• The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy — Jakuto (voice)
• Arknights — Mouse King (voice)
• CHEF-1グランプリ — narrator
• 2022Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 1 — Murai
• 2022Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Intrigue 2 — Murai
• Love of Kill — Donny (voice)
• Raven of the Inner Palace — Zuoqiu Yao/Sakyuu You (voice)
• Requiem of the Rose King — narration (voice)
• Tekken: Bloodline
• 2022That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond — Hakurou (voice)
• The Eminence in Shadow — Ruslan (voice)
• The Little Lies We All Tell — Narration (voice), UFO (voice)
• 2022Thunderbirds 55/GOGO — Jeff Tracy (voice)
• Tomodachi Game — Teacher (voice)
• Urusei Yatsura — Principal (voice)
• Ya Boy Kongming! — Tsuyoshi Kondo (voice)
• 宇宙戦艦ヤマト2205 新たなる旅立ち 後章 -STASHA- — Shirou Sanada (voice)
• Baki Hanma — Biscuit Oliva (voice)
• Cute Executive Officer — Bakery Manager (voice)
• EDENS ZERO — Ziggy (voice)
• 2021Gintama: The Very Final — Abuto (voice)
• Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan — The Voice of God (voice)
• Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation — Talhand (voice)
• ODDTAXI — Donraku Shofutei (voice)
• Star Wars: Visions — Toad (voice)
• The Duke of Death and His Maid — Rob (voice), Songs
• The Slime Diaries — Hakurou (voice)
• The Vampire Dies in No Time
• The Way of the Househusband — Retired Yakuza Boss (voice)
• Wonder Egg Priority — Doctor Seki (voice)
• ぼくドコ
• 宇宙戦艦ヤマト2205 新たなる旅立ち 前章 -TAKE OFF- — Shirou Sanada (voice)
• BNA — Prime Minister Shiramizu (voice)
• Gebäude-Bäude — Hecatonchires (voice)
• I'm Standing on a Million Lives — Game Master (voice)
• Listeners — Field Marshal Ace (voice)
• Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori
• The Misfit of Demon King Academy — Melheis Boran (voice)
• Tower of God — Headon (voice)
• 2019City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes — Vince Englert (voice)
• 2019Crayon Shin-chan: Honeymoon Hurricane ~The Lost Hiroshi~ — Chief (voice)
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Sakonji Urokodaki (voice)
• 2019Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Sibling's Bond — Sakonji Urokodaki (voice)
• Isekai Quartet — Hans von Zettour (voice)
• Levius — Malcolm Eden (voice)
• Miru Tights — Master (voice)
• 2019Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie — Hans von Zettour (voice)
• Angels of Death — Abraham Gray
• 2018Batman Ninja — Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
• Hi Score Girl — Narrator (voice)
• 2018K: Seven Stories Movie 3 - Side:Green - The Overwritten World — Tenkei Iwafune
• 2018K: Seven Stories Movie 5 - Memory of Red - Burn — Tenkei Iwafune (voice)
• 2018One Piece: Episode of Skypiea — Mont Blanc Norland (voice)
• Pop Team Epic — Pipimi (voice)
• Teasing Master Takagi-san — Live Commentator (voice)
• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime — Hakurou (voice)
• ZOMBIE LAND SAGA — Barkeeper (voice)
• 宇宙戦艦ヤマト2202 愛の戦士たち — Shiro Sanada
• Alice & Zoroku — Ryuu Naitou (voice)
• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations — Jiraiya (voice)
• Love Tyrant — Kamisama
• Restaurant to Another World — Tatsugorou (Teriyaki chicken)
• Saga of Tanya the Evil — Hans von Zettour (voice)
• 2017Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love - Ch. 3 — Shiro Sanada
• 2017Zero 21 Hi-Vision Master Version — Narrator
• Ajin — Satō (voice)
• 2016Ajin: Demi-Human – Collide — Satō (voice)
• 2016Ajin: Demi-Human – Confront — Satō (voice)
• Bungo Stray Dogs — Natsume Souseki
• D.Gray-man Hallow — Bookman (voice)
• 2016Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan — Gigazombie (voice)
• JOKER GAME — Lieutenant Colonel Howard Marks (voice)
• 2016Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu — Guillotinecutter (voice)
• 2016Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu — Guillotinecutter (voice)
• March Comes In Like a Lion — Sakutarou Yanagihara (voice)
• 2015Ajin: Demi-Human – Compel — Satō (voice)
• Chaos Dragon: Sekiryuu Sen'eki — Red Dragon (voice)
• Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman — Jinmen (voice)
• I Really Want to Join the Zodiac — 神様
• Kamen Rider #4 — Deneb (voice)
• 2015Kamen Rider 4 — Deneb (voice)
• 2015Kamen Rider Gaim: Final Stage — Maja / Kamen Rider Gaim Yami / Kamen Rider Maja
• 2015Super Hero Wars GP: Kamen Rider #3 — Deneb (voice)
• 2014Kingdom Hearts Re:coded — Braig (voice)
• 2014Space Battleship Yamato 2199: A Voyage to Remember — Shiro Sanada
• 2014Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark — Shiro Sanada (voice)
• 2014Space Dandy : The Cosmic Compilation — Narrator
• 2014THE iDOLM@STER MOVIE: Beyond the Brilliant Future! — Junjirou "President" Takagi (voice)
• 2014TIGER & BUNNY: The Rising — Mark Schneider (voice)
• Glitter Force Doki Doki — King Jikochu (voice)
• Kamen Rider Gaim — Narration (voice)
• 2013Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days — Xigbar (voice)
• Muromi-san — Wiseman
• Sasami-san@Ganbaranai — Tsukuyomi Kamiomi
• 2013Space Battleship Yamato 2199: And Now the Warship Comes
• 2013Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Offense and Defense on the Outer Reaches of the Galaxy — Shiro Sanada (voice)
• Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 — Shirou Sanada (voice)
• The Severing Crime Edge — Fritz Mayord (voice)
• 2013宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199 第五章「望郷の銀河間空間」 — Shiro Sanada (voice)
• 2013宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199 第四章「銀河辺境の攻防」 — Shiro Sanada (voice)
• 2012After School Midnighters — Fred (voice)
• 2012Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King — Laban (voice)
• 2012One Piece Film: Z — Z (voice)
• 2012Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie — Jiraya (voice)
• 2012Space Battleship Yamato 2199 — Shiro Sanada (voice)
• 2012宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199 第三章「果てしなき航海」 — Shiro Sanada (voice)
• 2012宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199 第二章「太陽圏の死闘」 — Shiro Sanada (voice)
• 2011Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle — Signalman (voice)
• Nichijou: My Ordinary Life — Soldier No. 8 (voice)
• THE iDOLM@STER — Junjirou "President" Takagi (voice)
• Arakawa Under the Bridge — Toru Shirai (voice)
• 2010Gintama: The Movie — Abuto (voice)
• 2010Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie Cho-Den-O Trilogy Movie Released Memorial Special Stage: Imagin Super Climax Tour 2010
• 2010Super Kamen Rider Den-O Trilogy - Episode Red: Zero's Star Twinkle — Deneb (voice), Theme Song Performance
• Wagnaria!! — Mr. Inami (voice)
• Beyond the Heavens — Dong Zhuo
• 2009Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva — Inspector Clamp Grosky (voice)
• 2009Super Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade NEO Generations: The Onigashima Warship — Deneb (voice)
• The Sacred Blacksmith — Augustus Arthur (voice)
• A Certain Magical Index — Terra (voice), Terra of the Left (voice)
• 2008Farewell Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown — Deneb (voice)
• Fireball — ヘカトンケイル
• 2008Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka — Deneb (voice)
• 2008Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Trilogy Special Edition — Deneb (voice)
• Kamen Rider Den-O: Imagin Anime — Deneb (voice)
• Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens — Maid Cafe Manager (voice)
• King of Conte — Narration
• 2008Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds — Jiraiya (voice)
• Spice and Wolf — Liechten Marheit (voice)
• The Daughter of Twenty Faces — Kouhei Kakishima (voice)
• 2008The Sky Crawlers — Honda (voice)
• Blue Dragon — Killer Bat (voice)
• Claymore — Orsay (voice)
• Kamen Rider Den-O — Deneb (voice)
• 2007Kamen Rider Den-O The Movie: I'm Born! — Deneb (voice)
• 2007Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Stage — Deneb
• 2007Kamen Rider Den-O: Singing, Dancing, Great Training!! — Deneb (voice)
• 2007Momotaros' Summer Vacation — Deneb (voice)
• Naruto Shippūden — Jiraiya (voice)
• Princess Resurrection — Dracul
• Saiyuki Reload: Burial — Ukoku Sanzō (voice)
• 009-1 — Number Zero (voice)
• Coyote Ragtime Show — Bruce Dochley (voice)
• Ergo Proxy — Memory Interventionist (voice), Proxy One (voice)
• 2006Fist of the North Star: The Legend of the True Savior: Legend of Raoh-Chapter of Death in Love — Shu (voice)
• Gintama — Abuto (voice)
• 2006Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars — Yazan Gable (voice)
• Akagi — Yamanaka (voice)
• Blood+ — George Miyagusuku (voice)
• 2005Final Fantasy VII: Last Order — The Turks - Martial Arts (voice)
• 2005Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation II: Lovers — Yazan Gable (voice)
• Sanada 10
• 2004Netrun-mon the Movie — Samuraidamashii Ken
• Kino's Journey — Riku (voice)
• Stratos 4
• Texhnolyze — Bunken Kohakura (voice)
• 2002Dolls — Matsumoto's Friend
• Naruto — Jiraiya (voice)
• Earth Maiden Arjuna — Bob
• Figure 17: Tsubasa & Hikaru — Isamu Kuroda
• Kaze no Yojimbo — Samekichi Shirogane
• 2001淫夢2～恥辱の果肉祭～ — Kōsuke Satomi (ep 2) (Voice)
• Brigadoon: Marin & Melan — Melan Blue
• Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran — Kojuro Takagaki (voice)
• Inmu: Feast of Victims — Kōsuke Satomi (voice)
• 2000Reign: The Conqueror Movie — Cleitus
• Saiyuki — Ni Jianyi (voice)
• 10 Tokyo Warriors
• 1999Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century — Ryuu Sagawa (voice)
• Meltylancer: The Animation — Collins One Seven (voice)
• Reign: The Conqueror — Cleitus (voice)
• Turn A Gundam — Gavane Gooney (voice)
• Zoids: Chaotic Century — Gunther Prozen (voice)
• Cowboy Bebop — Shaft (voice) (as Yoshitada Ôtsuka)
• Devil Lady — Algoth (voice)
• Kurogane Communication — Cleric
• 1998Otoko wa Tsurai yo: Torajirou Wasurenagusa
• 1997Gekisou Sentai Carranger vs Ohranger — Signalman
• 1996Crayon Shin-chan: Great Adventure In Henderland — Makao (voice)
• Detective Conan — Yuukaihan (voice)
• Rurouni Kenshin
• 1996Tenchi Muyo! In Love — Sabato
• 1995Gunsmith Cats — Bill Collins (voice)
• Gunsmith Cats — Bill Collins (voice)
• Maps — Gahha Kala Kala (voice)
• Mobile Fighter G Gundam — Chibodee Crocket (voice)
• My Sexual Harassment — Niimi (voice)
• The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA — Barsalom (voice)
• 1994Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - Poltergeist Report — Kuronue (voice)
• Black Jack — President Kelly (voice)
• 1993Bonobono — Sunadorineko-san
• 1993Coo of the Far Seas — Jean (voice)
• Slam Dunk — Akira Sendo (voice)
• 1993The King of Minami — information
• Dance Till Tomorrow — Daisuke Ikezu (voice)
• 1990City Hunter: Bay City Wars — Norton's Aide (voice)
• 1990Little Polar Bear
• 1989Legend of Lemnear — Thug C
• 1989Project A-Ko 4: Final — Hikari Daitokuji (voice)
• 1989Venus Wars — Will
• 1988Mami the Psychic: Dancing Dolls in a Starry Sky — Hideki (voice)
• 1988Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis — (voice)
• Transformers: Super-God Masterforce — Ranger (Autobots - Godmasters)
• City Hunter
• 1987Dead Heat — Saburou
• 1987Digital Devil Story - Megami Tensei — Loki (voice)
• 1987Heavy Metal L-Gaim II: Farewell My Lovely + Pentagona Dolls — Mirao Kyao
• 1987Heavy Metal L-Gaim III - Full Metal Soldier — Mirao Kyao
• Manga Nihon Keizai Nyuumon — 津川
• Metal Armor Dragonar — Tapp Oceano (voice)
• Mister Ajikko — Takao Ajiyoshi
• 1987Project A-Ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group — Mr. Daitokuji (voice)
• Transformers: The Headmasters — Crosshairs
• 1986Captain Tsubasa Movie 03: Run Towards Tomorrow! — Makoto Souda (voice)
• 1986Captain Tsubasa Movie 04: The Great World Competition!! The Junior World Cup — Makoto Souda (voice)
• 1986Castle in the Sky — Man in Black Glasses (voice)
• 1986Grey: Digital Target — Cricket (voice)
• 1986Heavy Metal L-Gaim I: Pentagona Window + Lady Gavlet — Mirao Kyao
• Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ — Yazan Gable
• Spaceship Sagittarius — Chemical's Subordinate (voice), Cosmo Service (voice), Fisherman (voice), Cosmo Service Staff (voice), Soldier (voice), Reporter (voice), Official (voice), Youth (voice)
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam — Yazan Gable, Yazan Gable (voice)
• Ninja Robots — Grathan Gryn
• 1985Pero Pero Candy — Ken(as Houchu Ohtsuka)
• Heavy Metal L-Gaim — Mirauu Kyao
• Katri: Girl of the Meadows — Raski (voice)
• 1984Warriors of the Wind — Tolmekian Soldier (voice)
• Captain Tsubasa — (voice)
• Genesis Climber MOSPEADA — Batra
• Kamen Rider — Deneb (voice)