Hideo Ishikawa

Some voices carry a backstory before the character says anything meaningful, and Hideo Ishikawa has one of those. Born in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, and affiliated with Aoni Production, he is best known for roles that share a specific emotional register: Itachi Uchiha in Naruto, Jushiro Ukitake in Bleach, Auron in Final Fantasy X, Squall Leonhart across the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts games, Kiccho Fukuda in Slam Dunk. Look at that list and a pattern emerges. Nearly all of them are men carrying something they will not explain, and the performances work precisely because he does not reach for volume. He stays low, keeps the delivery restrained, and lets the audience do the work of imagining what happened before the story started. That restraint is harder than it sounds in an industry where intensity is often the default setting. He also works as a narrator, which is its own discipline. Longevity in Japanese voice acting is largely a matter of directors trusting you to be exactly right without being asked twice, and he has clearly earned that.

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Name (English)

Hideo Ishikawa

Name (Japanese)

石川英郎

Reading

いしかわ ひでお

Born

December 13, 1969 (age 56)

Origin

Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Weight

74 kg

Occupation

seiyū / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rooster

Blood type

O

Agency

Aoni Production

Active years

1993 -

Works summary

Appearances

547 (1993–2024)

By year (titles with a known year)

1993: 5, 1994: 1, 1995: 1, 1996: 1, 1997: 1, 1998: 4, 1999: 2, 2000: 1, 2001: 1, 2002: 2, 2003: 4, 2004: 4, 2005: 5, 2006: 5, 2007: 6, 2008: 4, 2009: 2, 2010: 3, 2011: 4, 2012: 1, 2013: 1, 2014: 2, 2015: 1, 2018: 2, 2019: 3, 2022: 3, 2023: 3, 2024: 1, year unknown: 474

Debut work

蒼き伝説シュート!

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.aoni.co.jp/actor/a/ishikawa-hideo.html
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hidesan777/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo%20Ishikawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E5%B7%9D%E8%8B%B1%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1204249

Tags

• Hyōgo Prefecture
• seiyū
• actor

Last updated

September 24, 2026

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