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Isshin Chiba

Japanese voice actor

Isshin Chiba (千葉 一伸, Chiba Isshin; born June 26, 1968) is a Japanese voice actor. He is best known for voicing Jin Kazama in the Tekken series.

01Biography

Isshin Chiba was born in Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan. He graduated from Miyagi Prefecture Kesennuma High School. After graduating from high school, he had the idea to become a stage actor. However, because he had no experience in such extracurricular activities in particular, he attended Katsuma Voice Actor's Academy in Tokyo. He started his career as a voice actor at age 22 in 1990. In 1997, he landed the role for which he is best known, the role of Jin Kazama from the Tekken fighting game series. Starting from Tekken 3, he voiced Jin in all other Tekken games, including crossovers Namco × Capcom, Street Fighter X Tekken, Project X Zone, Project X Zone 2, The King of Fighters All Star and adaptations Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Tekken: Bloodline and the Japanese dub of the live-action Tekken film. This makes Isshin Chiba the fifth single actor playing a videogame character the longest, behind Ed Boon, who voices Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi who voices Kage Maru from Virtua Fighter, Shin-ichiro Miki who voices Akira Yuki from Virtua Fighter, and Joseph D. Kucan, who voices Kane from Command & Conquer.

02Filmography

Television animation

Film

ONA

  • 7 Seeds (2019), Norikazu Kagami
  • Tekken: Bloodline (2022), Jin Kazama

OVA

Video games

Drama CD

Tokusatsu

Dubbing

Original yearDub yearTitleRoleOriginal actorNotes
19612014West Side StoryRiffRuss Tamblyn
2003-2006Teen TitansDoctor LightRodger Bumpass
20052008Zathura: A Space AdventureAdult Walter / The AstronautDax Shepard
2006My First WeddingAndrePaul Hopkins
2008-2011Batman: The Brave and the BoldEtrigan the DemonDee Bradley Baker
2009TekkenJin KazamaJon Foo
2010Reign of AssassinsLei BinShawn Yue
2013-presentTeen Titans Go!TrigonKevin Michael Richardson
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