Chikao Ōtsuka

Chikao Ohtsuka had the kind of voice that made villains impossible to hate. It was sly, gravelly and faintly amused at itself, so even when the character was despicable you enjoyed his company. Japanese audiences knew him instantly as the scheming Nezumi-Otoko in GeGeGe no Kitaro and as the first Goemon Ishikawa in Lupin III, two roles that could hardly sit further apart. He worked on stage and screen as well as in the recording booth, and you can hear that training in the timing and the breath control. He died in 2015 at 85. His son Akio Ohtsuka went on to a voice career of similar stature, which makes the family sound less like a coincidence than an inheritance.

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Name (English)

Chikao Ōtsuka

Name (Japanese)

大塚周夫

Reading

おおつか ちかお

Born

July 5, 1929 – January 15, 2015

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Weight

73 kg

Occupation

actor / seiyū

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Snake

Blood type

B

Agency

Aoni Production (last agency)

Works summary

Appearances

990

By year (titles with a known year)

1953: 2, 1955: 1, 1957: 1, 1958: 1, 1960: 1, 1961: 2, 1962: 1, 1963: 2, 1964: 1, 1965: 2, 1966: 7, 1967: 3, 1968: 3, 1969: 3, 1970: 3, 1971: 2, 1973: 3, 1974: 1, 1975: 1, 1977: 4, 1978: 1, 1979: 1, 1980: 3, 1981: 1, 1982: 1, 1983: 2, 1984: 5, 1985: 2, 1986: 2, 1987: 9, 1988: 4, 1989: 4, 1990: 7, 1991: 4, 1992: 3, 1993: 5, 1994: 1, 1995: 2, 1996: 6, 1997: 3, 1998: 5, 1999: 2, 2000: 2, 2001: 1, 2002: 1, 2003: 1, 2004: 1, 2005: 1, 2006: 3, 2007: 1, 2008: 1, 2009: 2, 2012: 2, 2014: 3, 2015: 1, 2020: 1, year unknown: 852

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikao%20Ohtsuka
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%A1%9A%E5%91%A8%E5%A4%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1207010

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• seiyū

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.