Yasunori Matsumoto
Acting
Born February 7, 1960, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Yasunori Matsumoto is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with Sigma Seven. Some of Matsumoto's most notable roles are Wataru Akiyama in Initial D, Jean Havoc in Fullmetal Alchemist, Magnum Ace in Shippū! Iron Leaguer, Gourry Gabriev in Slayers and Ryo Hibiki in Sonic Soldier Borgman. His wife was voice actress Junko Sakuma, who died in March 2011.
Filmography
- An Adventurer's Daily Grind at Age 29 — Cockdole (voice)
- Love Through a Prism — Ryotaro Ichijoin (voice)
- The Salty Koharu Has a Soft Spot for Me — Seizaemon Oshio (voice)
- Anne Shirley — Matthew Cuthbert (voice), Pacifique (voice)
- 2025Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback — Yutaka Ochi (voice)
- 2025SK8 the Infinity EXTRA PART — Joe (voice)
- 2023Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Sky Utopia — Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- MF GHOST — Akiyama (voice)
- 2021HOME! — Christopher Newton (voice)
- Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger — Halloween World (voice)
- SK8 the Infinity — Joe (voice)
- The Faraway Paladin — Chimera (voice)
- Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW — Ichirō Maebara (voice)
- 2019Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration — Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- 2019My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising — Mahoro & Katsuma's Father (voice)
- 2018Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island — Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- Violet Evergarden — Iris's Father (voice)
- 2017Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi — Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- URAHARA — Ebifuruya (voice)
- 2016Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan — Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- 2016Ultraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman — Guruman (voice)
- Go! Princess PreCure — Ibuki Haruno (voice)
- Ultraman X — Narrator / Guruman (voice)
- 2014Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace — Kenjo Kurihara (voice)
- 2014Kingdom Hearts Re:coded — Hercules (voice)
- Ressha Sentai ToQger — Type Shadow (voice)
- 2014Stand by Me Doraemon — Nobisuki Nobi (voice)
- Attack on Titan — Eren Kruger (voice)
- 2013Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak — Ichirou Maebara (voice)
- 2012Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles – Animal Adventure — Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- Sword Art Online — Hans (voice)
- Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters — Danganloid (voice)
- Showa Monogatari — Yuzou Yamazaki (voice)
- Tales of Gekijou — Guy Cecil
- HEROMAN — Minami (voice)
- 2010Halo Legends — Captain
- Halo Legends — Captain
- Tensou Sentai Goseiger — Powereddark of the Mutation (voice)
- Fresh Precure! — Wester (voice)
- 2009Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition I: Celestial Being — Alejandro Corner (voice)
- Monogatari — Mayoi's Father (voice)
- 2009Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers — Stoner (voice)
- Natsume's Book of Friends — Kaname's Father (voice), Mr. Tanuma (voice), Tanuma Father (voice)
- Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne — Tamotsu Yanagisawa (voice)
- Tales of the Abyss — Guy Cecil (voice)
- 2007Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users — Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- GR -GIANT ROBO- — Roscoe Heinscare (voice)
- Ghost Hound — Takahito Komagusa (voice)
- Kaiji — Furuhata (voice)
- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 — Alejandro Corner (voice)
- The Flowers of Hard Blood — Shinji Yasuoka
- 2006Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur — Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- Higurashi: When They Cry — Ichiro Maebara (voice)
- Le Chevalier D'Eon — Earl St. Germain
- 2006ドラえもん誕生日スペシャル 「のび太くん、さようなら！ ドラえもん、未来へ帰る…」 — Nobisuke Nobi (Nobita's Father) (voice)
- Doraemon — Nobisuke Nobi (voice)
- Emma: A Victorian Romance — Lionel (voice)
- Eureka Seven — Stoner (voice)
- 2005Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa — Jean Havoc (voice)
- Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor — Archanfel (voice)
- Hell Girl
- MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance — Galian
- 2005Rockman.EXE: The Program of Light and Darkness — Charlie Airstar
- 2005Street Fighter Alpha: Generations — Gouki (young) (voice)
- Trinity Blood — Virgil Walsh (voice)
- Zoids: Genesis — Major Zairin
- 2005ドラえもん誕生日スペシャル 「ご先祖さまがんばれ」 — Nobita's Father (voice)
- Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple — Franklin Clarke (voice)
- Destiny of the Shrine Maiden — ツバサ / Tsubasa
- Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama — Shuten Doji (voice)
- Paranoia Agent — Zebra (voice)
- Pretty Cure — Juna
- Croket!
- E's Otherwise
- 2003Inuyasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler — Setsuna no Takemaru (voice)
- 2003Shadow Skill: Secret of the Kurudan Style
- The Song of Saya — Kouji Tonoo
- Cheeky Angel — Yanagisawa
- GetBackers — Paul Wong (voice)
- 2002Guilstein
- 2002Initial D: Battle Stage — Wataru Akiyama (voice)
- Mirage of Blaze — Shuhei Chiaki (voice)
- Princess Tutu — Mr. Cat (voice)
- 2001Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves — Babylon (voice)
- Hellsing — Boz (voice)
- 2001Slayers Premium — Gourry Gabriev (voice)
- Star Ocean EX
- Vampiyan Kids — Vampire Hunter
- Gravitation — Hiroshi Nakano (voice)
- Love Hina — Noriyasu Seta (voice)
- 2000The Truth of Japanese Fairy Tales — Unosuke (voice)
- Angel Links — Marcotte (voice)
- Bucky - The Incredible Kid — En (voice)
- Gravitation: Lyrics of Love — Hiroshi Nakano
- Legend of Himiko — Chosa
- Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko — Curtis Lawson (voice)
- Steel Angel Kurumi — Kamihito Kagura
- 1999Vampiyan Kids — Vampire Hunter (voice)
- 1998Ganbare Goemon: Global Rescue Operation — Goemon
- Gandalla: The King of Burning Desert — Yuuki Saijou
- 1998Gekiganger 3 - The Movie — Tetsuya Ryuzaki (voice)
- Getter Robo: Armageddon — Gai (voice)
- Initial D — Wataru Akiyama (voice)
- Lost Universe — Dark Seeder
- 1998Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture - Prince of Darkness — Genpachiro Akiyama (voice)
- Shadow Skill — Scarface (voice)
- Silent Möbius — Ralph Bowmers
- 1997Jungle Emperor Leo — Ramune (voice)
- Legend of the Mystical Ninja — Impact, Goemon
- 1997The Wave of Rage
- Tournament of the Gods: Title Match — Vilnus
- 1997Undersea Fleet Submarine 707F — Senta Umino (voice)
- Vampire Princess Miyu — Ryu (voice)
- 1996Hurricane Polymar: Holy Blood — Sukamuugu (voice)
- 1996KI・ME・RA — Osamu (voice)
- Karakuri Ninja Girl — Tsukikage
- Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring — (voice)
- Martian Successor Nadesico — Genpachiro Akiyama (voice)
- Midori no Makibaō — Amago Wakuchin
- 1996New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning — Mitsuru Hayakawa (voice)
- 1996Nuumamonjaa: Time and Space Adventures — Monster (voice)
- Rurouni Kenshin
- 1996Shadow Skill: The Movie — Vai Low
- Sonic the Hedgehog — Knuckles the Echidna (voice)
- 1996Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie — Knuckles the Echidna (voice)
- Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman — Kosuke Matsumoto (voice)
- Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko — カーティス・ローソン
- 1996The End of the Century Darling — Kohsaku Ogata (voice)
- 1996The Hard: Bounty Hunter — Hard (voice)
- 1996The Legend of Zorro
- VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire — Narciss Dandy
- 1995Elementalors
- H2 — Fujio Koga (voice)
- Jura Tripper — Mosaru
- 1995Ninku the Movie — Basara Ninku
- 1995Pipi the Flightless Firefly
- Saber Marionette R — Bureaucrat (voice)
- 1995Shadow Skill: Epilogue — Vy Low (voice)
- Slayers — Gourry Gabriev (voice)
- 1995Super Atragon — Masahi Hyuga (voice)
- Virtua Fighter
- 1994Captain Tsubasa Movie 05: The Most Powerful Opponent! Holland Youth — Hiroshi Jitou (voice)
- 1994Darkside Blues — Tatsuya (voice)
- New Cutey Honey — Virtual Hacker (voice)
- 1994Tokyo Babylon 2 — Subway Killer
- Dragon Half — Dick Saucer (voice), Theme Song Performance
- 1993Fight!! Spirit of the Sword — Sakyo (voice)
- From Today, It's My Turn!! — Takashi Mitsuhashi (voice)
- 1993Kawaguchi Kaiji's 9 Love Stories — Tatsuo (voice)
- 1993Mellow — Akira Hajima (male) (voice)
- Please Save My Earth — Shukaido (voice)
- Shippuu! Iron Leaguer — Magnum Ace
- 1993Singles — Kaname Kazama (voice)
- 1993The Legacy of Al Caral — Seto (voice)
- 1993Urotsukidōji III: Return of the Overfiend — Buju (voice)
- 1992Black Lion — Shishimaru (voice)
- 1992Delinquent in Drag — Rentan (voice)
- Ellcia — Elri
- 1992JOKER: Marginal City — Rikudou Rin
- KO Century Beast Warriors
- KO世紀ビースト三獣士
- Kyuukyoku no Sex Adventure Kamasutra — Aikawa Ryū (voice)
- La Blue Girl — Kyoshiro (voice)
- 1992OZ
- OZ — You Mutou / 武藤 洋 (voice)
- Princess Army: Wedding Combat — Shinobu Oda
- 1992Raven Tengu Kabuto: The Golden-Eyed Beast
- Ruriiro Princess
- 1992Seikima II - Humane Society — Odr (Voice)
- Tekkaman Blade — Noal Vereuse
- Tokyo Babylon — Subway Killer (voice)
- 1991DRAGON FIST — Sanetsugu Sugiura
- 1991Dragon Knight — Takeru Yamato
- Dragon Knight — Japanese
- Jingi — 神林仁
- 1991Kamasutra The Ultimate Sex Adventure — Aikawa Ryuu (voice)
- Madara — Kaos (voice)
- 1991Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - The Motion Picture — Eiko Villan (voice)
- 1991Princess Connection
- RG Veda — Kujaku (voice)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms — Cao Cao
- Sangokushi
- 1991Shizukanaru Don: Yakuza Side Story — (voice)
- The Brave of the Sun Fighbird — Yuutarou Katori / Fighbird (voice)
- 1991Trusty Ginjiro — Kinta Sasa (voice)
- 1991Urotsukidōji II: Legend of the Demon Womb — Takeaki Kiryu (voice)
- 1991Ushiro no Hyakutarou
- 1991Ziggy: Soreyuke! R&R Band — Sownin
- 1990Ajin Senshi — Zero (voice)
- 1990Cyber City Oedo 808 — Rider A (voice)
- Cyber City Oedo 808 — Rider A (voice)
- 1990Fukuyama Theater: Summer Secret
- 1990Heavy — Guy Hyuga (voice)
- Idol Angel Yokoso Yoko — Yukata Tokudaiji
- Karasu Tengu Kabuto — Kabuto (voice)
- Mad Bull 34 — Daizaburō "Eddie" Ban
- Samurai Pizza Cats — Zankaa
- 1990Sonic Soldier Borgman: Lover's Rain
- 1990The Demonic Beast Front
- Assemble Insert — 部下壱
- 1989Bad Boys Boogie — 御子柴
- Bucchigiri
- 1989Riki-Oh: The Wall of Hell — Wakamatsu (voice)
- 1989Sonic Soldier Borgman: Last Battle
- Armor Hunter Merowlink — Cpl. Merowlink Ality
- Ronin Warriors — Anubis
- Sonic Soldier Borgman — Ryou
- Starship Troopers — Juan "Johnnie" Rico
- 1988Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis — (voice)
- Bubblegum Crisis — Kou (voice)
- Kimagure Orange Road — Mitsuru Hayakawa
- 1987Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 — Kouji Sugimoto
- Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend — Bujuu