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Japanese actor and voice actor

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Kazuya Tatekabe
たてかべ和也

Born	Kazuya Tachikabe (1934-07-20)July 20, 1934 Kimobetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
Died	June 18, 2015(2015-06-18) (aged 80) Tokyo, Japan
Occupations	Actor voice actor
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)

Kazuya Tatekabe (たてかべ和也、立壁和也, Tatekabe Kazuya, July 20, 1934 – June 18, 2015) was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He was born in Kimobetsu, Hokkaidō. He was represented by Kenyu Horiuchi's Kenyu Office at the time of his death.

He was most known for the roles of Takeshi Goda known as "Gian" (Doraemon), Walsa (Time Bokan), and Tonzura (Yatterman).

Career

Tatekabe had been a voice actor for 61 years, he was affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society in the 1950s, then Production Baobab and The Kenyu Office till the time of his death.

Gian

In 1979, he was cast in the second Doraemon anime series as Takeshi Goda (also known by the name "Gian"), a strong and quick-tempered local bully who can fight at any time and with any kid he sees, especially Nobita, alongside co-stars Nobuyo Ōyama (Doraemon), Noriko Ohara (Nobita Nobi), Michiko Nomura (Shizuka Minamoto) and Kaneta Kimotsuki (Suneo Honekawa).

After voicing Gian for 26 years, he handed the role over to Subaru Kimura for the 2005 series.

Tonzura

In 1977, he was cast in the first Time Bokan series of Yatterman as a short, muscular, squat man with a severe overbite and facial stubble.

He reprised his role alongside co-stars Noriko Ohara (Doronjo) and Jōji Yanami (Boyacky) across the series.

In 2008, he reunited with Ohara and Yanami to reprise their roles for the 2008 Yatterman series.

In the live-action film adaptation, he appeared as a cameo appearance alongside co-star Noriko Ohara and creator Hiroshi Sasagawa as customers for the restaurant run by the Dorombo Gang.

The sole exception of not reprising his role being the Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes game released by Capcom for the Wii in 2008.