Hiroaki Hirata

Hiroaki Hirata (平田 広明, Hirata Hiroaki, born August 7, 1963) is a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo and the founder of Hirata Production.

He is most known for the roles of Sanji (One Piece), Sha Gojyo (Saiyuki), Kotetsu T. Kaburagi (Tiger & Bunny), Mutta Nanba (Space Brothers) and the Narrator of Digimon Adventure. He is also the official Japanese dub-over artist for Johnny Depp.

He won the award for Best Actor in a leading role at the 6th Seiyu Awards for his work on Air Gear, One Piece and Tiger & Bunny.^[1]

Voice roles

Television animation

Lead/regular characters in Bold.

• Another (Tatsuji Chibiki)
• Ashita no Nadja (Karuro)
• Ayakashi (Iemon Tamiya)
• Air Gear (Aeon Clock)
• Black Lagoon (Benny)
• CANAAN (Santana)
• Claymore (Rubel)
• DearS (Xaki)
• Digimon Adventure (Narrator, Leomon, Hiroaki Ishida)
• Digimon Adventure 02 (Narrator, Takeru (adult), Hiroaki Ishida)
• Digimon Tamers (Leomon)
• Digimon Xros Wars (Matadormon)
• Divergence Eve (Juuzou Kureha)
• Elfen Lied (Professor Kakuzawa Yu)
• Fighting Spirit (Okita Keigo)
• Gaiking (John)
• Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG (Gino)
• Gingitsune (Yoshitomo Takami)
• Gintama (Terada Tatsugoro)
• Great Teacher Onizuka (Gibayashi)
• Hajime no Ippo (Okita Keigo)
• Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora (Goro Natume)
• InuYasha (Suikotsu)
• Inazuma Eleven Go (Liu Bei (Ryu Gentoku translating the kanji of his name to the Japanese).)
• Kaidan Restaurant (Ghastly Garçon(Waiter))
• Kekkaishi (Kaguro)
• Kinnikuman Ni-sei (The Ninja)
• Kuuchuu Buranko (Tatsurou Ikeyama)
• Kyo Kara Maoh! (Geigen "Hube" Huber)
• L/R: Licensed by Royalty (Jack Hofner)
• Marvel Anime: Iron Man (Ho Yinsen)
• Monster (Lipsky)
• Naruto (Genma Shiranui)
• Naruto Shippuden (Genma Shiranui)
• Naruto Shippuden (Young Jiraiya)
• One Piece (Sanji, Karoo, Inuppe, Demalo Black)
• Ojamajo Doremi (Yada's father, Kenzo Asuka (the father), etc.)
• Petite Princess Yucie (Frederick)
• Saiyuki (Sha Gojyo)
• Senkou no Night Raid (Takachiho Isao)
• Shin Sekai Yori (Kiroumaru)
• Slayers Evolution-R (Dguld)
• Space Brothers (Mutta Namba)
• Sword Art Online (Klein / Tsuboi Ryōtarō)
• Tiger & Bunny (Kotetsu T. Kaburagi / Wild Tiger)
• Transformers: Cybertron (Live Convoy, Gasket, Lori's father)
• Uchū Kyōdai (Mutta Nanba)
• Xenosaga: The Animation (Allen Ridgely)
• Zaion: I Wish You Were Here (Changpuek)

OVA

• Saiyuki Requiem (Sha Gojyo)
• Hellsing Ultimate OVA (Pip Bernadotte)

Theatre animation

• Digimon Adventure (TV announcer)
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Koga)
• One Piece series (Sanji)
• WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (Shinichiro Hata)

Video games

• Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (Albert Genette)
• Catherine (video game) (Orlando Haddick)
• Chaos Rings Omega (Veig/Olgar)
• Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy (Laguna Loire)
• Final Fantasy XII (Balthier)
• God Eater (Rindou)
• Granado Espada (Raven)
• Heavy Rain (Norman Jayden)
• Jeanne d'Arc (video game) (Gilles de Rais)
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (Jean Pierre Polnareff)
• Kingdom Hearts II (Captain Jack Sparrow)
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Samuel Rodrigues)
• Namco x Capcom (Bruce McGivern)
• One Piece series (Sanji)
• Sonic and the Black Knight (Caliburn/Excalibur)
• Tales of Innocence (Ricardo Soldato, Hypnos)
• Time Travelers (Kyugo Shindo)
• Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Vergil)
• Xenosaga (Allen Ridgely)

Tokusatsu

• Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (Machalcon)
• Kamen Rider Wizard (Narration)
• The Raid (Pleng O)
• Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger (Deryu Knight)

Dubbing roles

• Matt Damon
  • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Himself)
  • The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne)
  • The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne)
  • Saving Private Ryan (James Francis Ryan)
  • Titan A.E. (Cale Tucker)
• Johnny Depp
  • Donnie Brasco (Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone)
  • Secret Window (Mort Rainey)
  • Finding Neverland (James Matthew Barrie)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean series (Jack Sparrow)
  • Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Sands)
  • Chocolat (Roux)
  • Ed Wood (Ed Wood)
  • Sleepy Hollow (Ichabod Crane)
  • From Hell (Inspector Frederick Abberline)
  • The Man Who Cried (Cesar)
  • The Ninth Gate (Dean Corso)
  • Before Night Falls (Lieutenant Victor)
  • Alice in Wonderland (Mad Hatter)
  • Rango (Rango)
• Noah Wyle
  • ER (Dr. John Carter)
  • Enough (Robbie)
  • The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (Flynn Carsen)
  • The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (Flynn Carsen)
• Ewan McGregor
  • The Island
  • Trainspotting
  • Moulin Rouge!
• Matt LeBlanc
  • Joey (Joey Tribbiani)
  • Friends (Joey Tribbiani)
• Konstantin Khabensky
  • Night Watch (Anton Gorodetsky)
  • Day Watch (Anton Gorodetsky)
• Others
  • The Batman (The Riddler (Robert Englund))
  • Big Fish (Will (Billy Crudup))
  • Black Hawk Down (Matt Eversmann (Josh Hartnett))
  • Brother Bear (Denahi)
  • The Cable Guy (Steven (Matthew Broderick))
  • CSI: NY (Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo))
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula (Johnathan Harker (Keanu Reeves))
  • Encino Man (Matt (Michael DeLuise))
  • Fight Club (Narrator (Edward Norton))
  • Garfield (Sir Roland (Alan Cumming))
  • The Pink Panther (Mack)
  • Saw (Adam (Leigh Whannell))
  • Spyro x Sparx: Tondemo Tours (Hunter the Cheetah (Gregg Berger))
  • Star Trek: Enterprise (Michael Rostov (Joseph Will))
  • Thomas and the Magic Railroad (Mr. C. Junior (Michael E. Rodgers))
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gambit (Taylor Kitsch))

External links

• Hiroaki Hirata at the Internet Movie Database
• seiyuu.info Hiroaki Hirata at the Seiyuu database
• Official website

References