was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Katsuyama, Fukui. He was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of his death and was known for providing the voice of both the narrator and Professor Oak/Dr. Yukinari Okido on the Japanese anime series Pokémon. In addition to that, he regularly appeared in both the Japanese and English-language versions of the Pokémon anime, voicing Onix, Steelix and numerous other Pokémon.
Ishizuka was known for his deep, strong voice and was often cast in the role of older mature male characters, such as Jet Black from Cowboy Bebop, Eugene Gallardo from Tales of Rebirth and Captain Matthews in the Xenosaga trilogy. He was also the Japanese dub voice of Captain Gantu in every version of Lilo & Stitch to date. He was also the fourth Japanese voice of Heihachi Mishima in the Tekken video game series, and the second Japanese voice for Mr. Satan in the Dragon Ball franchise, taking over both roles since the death of longtime actor Daisuke Gōri. He has voiced the roles of Kizaru in the One Piece series, Van Hohenheim in the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood series, Zabuza Momochi in the Naruto series, Ginzo Nakamori in Detective Conan and Magic Kaito, Older Joseph Joestar in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, as well as Bunta Fujiwara in Initial D, Ryotaro Dojima in Persona 4 and Ujiyasu Hōjō in Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi. Ishizuka was also the famous voice-over actor for Liam Neeson, Laurence Fishburne and Kevin Spacey.
On August 17, 2018, it was reported that Ishizuka had died on August 13, at the age of 67 from a colon infection caused by an esophageal tumor.
Filmography
Television animation 1984 Giant Gorg (Narrator) Yoroshiku Mechadock (Toshimitsu Watanabe)
1987 Metal Armor Dragonar (Narrator)
1988 Mashin Hero Wataru (Don Girara, Don Quixote, Muko Khan)
1989 Lupin the 3rd: Bye Bye, Lady Liberty (Johns)
1990 Musashi, the Samurai Lord (Nobunaga)
1991 Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (Baran) Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi (Zhou Yu)
1992 Lupin the 3rd: From Siberia with Love (Lucky McDonald)
1993 Kenyū Densetsu Yaiba (Raizou) Slam Dunk (Moichi Taoka) Lupin III: Voyage to Danger (Keith Haydon)
1994 Blue Seed (Secretary)
1996 Virtua Fighter (Wolf Hawkfield) After War Gundam X (Aimzat Kartral) Violinist of Hamelin (Hell King Bass) Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (Tetsurou Yoshinogawa/Sailor Chef) Detective Conan (Souhei Tatsumi) Rurouni Kenshin (Fuji)
1997 Virus Buster Serge (Dixon) In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (David, Abimelech, Cyrus) Berserk (Narrator, Void) Battle Athletes Victory (Daizaemon Kanzaki) Hareluya II Boy (Gouda) Pokémon (Professor Oak, Narrator, Additional Voices) Maze (Asterote "Aster" Reighe) Detective Conan (Detective Nakamori) Flame of Recca (Kuukai)
1998 Initial D (Bunta Fujiwara) Cowboy Bebop (Jet Black) Gasaraki (Prime Minister) Devilman Lady (Katsumi Seta) Trigun (Brilliant Dynamites Neon) Yu-Gi-Oh! (Gozaburo Kaiba)
1999 Initial D: Second Stage (Bunta Fujiwara) The Big O (Alex Rosewater) GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (Kizaki) Pocket Monsters: Episode Orange Archipelago (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices) Pocket Monsters: Episode Gold & Silver (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices) Crest of the Stars (Entryus) Tenshi ni Narumon (Yuuka) One Piece (Kizaru, Koshiro, Kong)
2000 Vandread (Rabat) Hajime no Ippo (Miyata's Father) Mewtwo! I Am Here (Iwaku, Kunugidama, Narrator)
2001 Vandread: The Second Stage (Rabat) Steel Angel Kurumi 2 (Tenkai Sumeragi) Samurai Girl Real Bout High School (Takao Todo) Digimon Tamers (Vajramon) Najica Blitz Tactics (Gento Kuraku) Hellsing (Peter Ferguson) Mahoromatic (Narrator)
2002 Ai Yori Aoshi (Mayu's Father) Cyborg 009 The Cyborg Soldier (Claus Van Bogoot) Naruto (Zabuza Momochi) Pocket Monster Side Stories (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices) Pocket Monsters: Advanced Generation (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices) Figure 17 (Desk Staff) Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful (Hayato Daimon)
2003 Astro Boy (Boone) Wolf's Rain (Quent Yaiden) Air Master (Lucha Master) Sou Nanda (Eureka Tower) Gad Guard (Kogoro Hachisuka) Kaleido Star (Jerry) Cromartie High School (Narrator) The Big O 2 (Alex Rosewater) Planetes (Dr. Werner Locksmith) Tank Knights Portriss (File Hook) Last Exile (Godwyn)
2004 Initial D: Fourth Stage (Bunta Fujiwara) Diamond Daydreams (Kiichi Harada) Kyo kara Maoh! (Stoffel von Spitzweg) Zatch Bell! (Gustav) Saiyuki Gunlock (Yakumo) Samurai Champloo (Nokogiri Manzou) Zipang (Eiichiro Taki) Beet the Vandel Buster (Bertoz) Monster (Narrator, Yarka)
2005 Fighting Beauty Wulong (Cao Da Hen) Gallery Fake (Senju's Father) Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor (Oswald . A . Lisker/Guyver II) Eureka Seven (Britani) Aquarion (Gen Fudou) Black Jack (Suguru Tenma) Minami no Shima no Chiisana Hikouki Birdy (Big Papa)
2006 ARIA The NATURAL (Gentleman) Oban Star-Racers (Don Wei) The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye (Bogie) Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (Shio Sakaki) NANA (Goro Komatsu) Happy Lucky Bikkuriman (Chronos) Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices) Yomigaeru Sora – Rescue Wings (Shuujirou Hongou)
2007 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Sergei Smirnov, Spanish Assembly Member) Gintama (Kozenigata Heiji) Gegege no Kitarō (Makura-Kaeshi, Tenome) The Skull Man (Alucard van Bogeuto) Neuro: Supernatural Detective (Yūsuke Sugita) Moonlight Mile (Chris Jefferson, Instructor)
2008 Aria the Origination (Owner) Kaiba (Baby) Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season (Sergei Smirnov) Kyo kara Maoh! 3rd Series (Stoffel von Spitzweg) Golgo 13 (Sam Cheyenne) Stitch! (Gantu) Birdy the Mighty: Decode (Georg Gomez) Library War (Library Defense Force Officer) Blassreiter (Gerd Frentzen, Shido Kasugi)
2009 Guin Saga (Marus) Stitch!: Itazura Alien no Daibōken (Gantu) Birdy the Mighty Decode:02 (Georg Gomez) Naruto: Shippuden (Zabuza Momochi) Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Van Hohenheim) Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger (Miyata's Father)
2010 Iron Man (Defense Minister Kuroda, Rasetsu) House of Five Leaves (Benzou) Stitch!: Zutto Saikō no Tomodachi (Gantu) Strike Witches 2 (General A) Sound of the Sky (Klaus) Dragon Ball Kai (Mr. Satan) Heroman (Gogol) Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices) Magic Kaito (Ginzō Nakamori) Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (Higashida)
2011 Gintama' (Heiji Kozenigata) Gosick (Jupiter Roget) The Mystic Archives of Dantalian (Kendrick) Chihayafuru (Dr. Harada) Persona 4: The Animation (Ryōtarō Dōjima)
2012 Initial D: Fifth Stage (Bunta Fujiwara) Campione! (Sasha Dejanstahl Voban) Sankarea: Undying Love (Dan'ichirō Sanka) Humanity Has Declined (Grandpa) Naruto: Shippuden (Zabuza Momochi) Stitch to Suna no Wakusei (Gantu) Hyouka (Hanai) Brave10 (Ieyasu Tokugawa) Jormungand (Lehm) Jormungand Perfect Order (Lehm)
2013 Star Blazers 2199 (Ryū Hijikata) Attack on Titan (Mr. Leonhardt) Unlimited Psychic Squad (Doga) Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet (Agitator) Chihayafuru 2 (Dr. Harada) Tokyo Ravens (Iwao Miyachi) Toriko (Darnil Kahn) Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road (Sanda) Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! Season 2: Episode N (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices) Pocket Monsters: Best Wishes! Season 2: Decolora Adventure (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices) Pocket Monsters XY (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices)
2014 Initial D: Final Stage (Bunta Fujiwara) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (Joseph Joestar) Space Dandy (Dr. Gel) Sengoku Musou SP: Sanada no Shou (Narrator) Girl Friend Beta (Alien, Kumamoto Castle, Shiba Inu, Sea-Monkeys) (Episode 7) Terraformars (Sylvester Asimov) Hajime no Ippo Rising (Miyata's Father) Black Bullet (Sōgen Saitake) Persona 4 the Golden Animation (Ryōtarō Dōjima) Magic Kaito 1412 (Ginzō Nakamori)
2015 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (McMurdo Barriston) Ushio & Tora (Kenichi Masaki) Chaos Dragon (Kagraba) Blood Blockade Battlefront (Patrick) Dragon Ball Super (Mr. Satan) The Asterisk War (Kouichirou Toudou) (Episode 4-6) One-Punch Man (Carnage Kabuto) (Episode 3) Pocket Monsters: XY&Z (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices)
2016 Dimension W (Narrator) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable (Joseph Joestar) Bakuon!! (Hayakawa) (Episode 2-12) Berserk (Narrator) Macross Delta (Ernest Johnson) Pocket Monsters: Sun & Moon (Dr. Okido, Narrator, Additional Voices) Lupin the 3rd Part IV: The Italian Adventure (Salo)
2017 ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka (Kuvarum) Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor (Burks Blaumohn) Zero kara Hajimeru Mahō no Sho (Narrator) Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor (Parks Browmon) Clockwork Planet (Konrad)
2018 Banana Fish ("Papa" Dino Golzine) Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online (Narrator) Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These (Willibald Joachim von Merkatz) Jūshinki Pandora (Kane Ibrahim Hasan)
Theatrical animation Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars (1988) - Job Truniht Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988) (Meran) Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (1993) - Job Truniht Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994) - Blanka Macross Plus Movie Edition (1995) - Guld Goa Bowman Pokémon: The First Movie (1998) - Narrator / Gyarados / Onix / Kingler (uncredited) Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century (1999) - Detective Nakamori Pokémon: The Movie 2000 (1999) - Dr. Okido Pokémon 3: The Movie: Entei – Spell of the Unown (2000) - Dr. Ookido / Onix Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) - Priest Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns (2000) - Gyarados (uncredited) Initial D: Third Stage (2001) - Bunta Fujiwara Pokémon 4Ever: Celebi – Voice of the Forest (2001) - Professor Orchid (Oak) / Onix Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) - Jet Black Pokémon Heroes (2002) - Narrator A Tree of Palme (2002) - Gaz The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) - Okabe Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky (2004) - Detective Nakamori Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005) - Huskisson Fist of the North Star: The Legends of the True Savior (2006) - Sôga Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem (2006) - Detective Nakamori Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (2006) - Narrator Shin SOS dai Tôkyô tankentai (2007) - George Aquarion Movie: Ippatsu Gyakuten-hen (2007) Sword of the Stranger (2007) - Lord Akaike Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Bonds (2008) - Shinnô Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2008) - Doc Redline (2009) - Colonel Volton Time of Eve (2010) - Katoran Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky (2010) - Detective Nakamori Pokémon—Zoroark: Master of Illusions (2010) - Narrator Pokémon the Movie: Black—Victini and Reshiram and White—Victini and Zekrom (2011) - Narrator Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2011) - Heihachi Mishima One Piece Film: Z (2012) - Kizaru Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2013) - Mr. Satan Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan: The Movie (2013) - Detective Nakamori Psycho-Pass: The Movie (2015) - Desmond Rutaganda Attack on Titan – Part 2: Wings of Freedom (2015) - Annie's Father Pokémon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages (2015) - Narrator Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno (2015) - Detective Nakamori Pop in Q (2016) - Elder Pokémon the Movie: Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel (2016) - Narrator Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! (2017) - Narrator / Professor Okido Mazinger Z: Infinity (2017) - Dr. Hell Gekijoban Haikara-san ga Toru Zenpen: Benio, Hana no 17-sai (2017) - Major Hanamura Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: Oni-ō no Fukkatsu (2017) - Demon King Rasen Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us (2018) - Narrator Gekijoban Haikara-san ga Toru Zenpen: Tokyo Dai Roman (2018) - Major Hanamura Mewtwo Strikes Back: Evolution (2019) - Narrator My Tyrano: Together, Forever (2021)
Original video animation (OVA) Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988) (Job Trunicht)