Kiyoshi Kawakubo

Kiyoshi Kawakubo is the kind of actor who never needed his name in lights to matter. Born in 1929 in Kanagawa, he came up in an era when the craft was everything and self-promotion wasn't even a concept — you showed up, you did the work, and you let the performance speak. Pulling double duty as both a screen actor and a voice actor tells you something about his range and his work ethic; that voice-only discipline demands a different kind of precision, and the fact that he did both says he had chops to spare. He passed in April 2019, and I think it's fair to say the industry carries a lot of quiet foundations laid by people exactly like him.

Kiyoshi Kawakubo (1929–2019) was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Kanagawa Prefecture. Working across both on-screen performance and voice work, he represented a generation of versatile performers who built long careers spanning theatrical and vocal disciplines. He was born on November 18, 1929, and passed away on April 16, 2019.

Name (English)

Kiyoshi Kawakubo

Name (Japanese)

川久保潔

Reading

かわくぼ きよし

Born

November 18, 1929 – April 16, 2019

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

Origin

Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Actor / Voice Actor

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%9D%E4%B9%85%E4%BF%9D%E6%BD%94
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6419096

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Actor
• Voice Actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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