Saburo Shinoda

Saburo Shinoda

Born

December 5, 1948
Minato, Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Actor, voice actor, narrator^[1]

Notable role(s)

Boy scout, Dr. Fukazawa,
Emperor Keiko, Mitsuru Kunimoto

Height

178 centimeters^[1]

First work

Gan (1966)^[1]

Notable work

Ultraman Taro (TV 1973-1974)

Saburo Shinoda (篠田三郎, Shinoda Saburō), real name Haruo Otsuka (大塚晴生, Ōtsuka Haruo), is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best recognized among tokusatsu fans for his role as the voice and human host of Ultraman Taro from the 1973 Tsuburaya Productions series of the same name. Shinoda has made a handful of other appearances in kaiju media, including as the characters Shigeki Fukazawa and Mitsuru Kunimoto in the 90s Godzilla films Godzilla vs. Mothra and Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, respectively.

Selected filmography

Gamera vs. Viras (1968) as boy scout
Ultraman Ace (TV 1972-1973) as Ichiro Shinoda [episode 20]
Ultraman Taro (TV 1973-1974) as Kotaro Higashi [episodes 1-53] / Ultraman Taro [voice; episodes 1-53] / Zoffy [voice; episodes 18, 34] / other Ultras [stock voices; episodes 33-34]
Ultraman Taro: Like the Sun, Mother of Ultra (1973) as Kotaro Higashi / Ultraman Taro [voice]
Ultraman Taro: Burn On! The Six Ultra Brothers (1973) as Kotaro Higashi / Ultraman Taro [voice]
Ultraman Taro: The Blood-Sucking Flower Is a Young Girl's Spirit (1974) as Kotaro Higashi / Ultraman Taro [voice]
Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) as Dr. Shigeki Fukazawa
Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994) as Emperor Keiko
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) as UNGCC Director Mitsuru Kunimoto
Ultraman Mebius Gaiden: Hikari Saga (2006) as Ultraman Taro [stock voice]
Ultraman Retsuden (TV 2011-2016) as Ultraman Taro [stock voice; unknown number of episodes]
Ultraman Ginga (TV 2013) as Ultraman Taro [stock voice; unknown number of episodes]
Ultraman Ginga S (TV 2014) as Ultraman Taro [stock voice; episodes 3, 16]
Japan Animator Expo (Web 2014-2015) as Ultraman Taro [stock voice; episode 30]
Ultraman Orb (TV 2016) as Ultraman Taro [stock voice; episode 25]
Ultraman Geed (TV 2017) as Ultraman Taro [stock voice; episode 1]
Ultraman Z (TV 2020) as Ultraman Taro [stock voice; episode 6]

External links

References

This is a list of references for Saburo Shinoda. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Saburo Shinoda (篠田　三郎)". Japanese Talent Database. Retrieved 25 February 2021.

Staff members

Directors

Drama directors	Adam Wingard • Daisuke Sato • Ernest Schoedsack • Eugène Lourié • Gareth Edwards • Hideaki Anno • Hirochika Muraishi • Hiroto Yokokawa • Hiroyuki Seshita • Ishiro Honda • John Guillermin • Jordan Vogt-Roberts • Jun Fukuda • Kazuhiro Nakagawa • Kazuki Omori • Kensho Yamashita • Kimiyoshi Yasuda • Kiyotaka Taguchi‎‎ • Kobun Shizuno • Koji Hashimoto • Kunio Miyoshi • Masaaki Hisamatsu • Masaaki Tezuka • Masaji Nonagase • Merian C. Cooper • Michael Dougherty • Minoru Kawasaki • Motoyoshi Oda • Noriaki Yuasa • Okihiro Yoneda • Peter Jackson • Roland Emmerich • Ryuhei Kitamura • Ryuichi Ichino • Shinji Higuchi • Shinpei Hayashiya • Shizuo Nakajima • Shusuke Kaneko • Takao Okawara • Takashi Miike • Takashi Yamazaki • Takeshi Yagi • Takuya Uenishi • Tomoo Haraguchi • Tokuzo Tanaka • Willis O'Brien • Yoshikazu Ishii • Yoshimitsu Banno • Yusuke Ishida

Effects directors	Eiichi Asada • Eiji Tsuburaya • Hiromasa Mitsudome • Hiroshi Butsuda • Isao Kaneko • Junkichi Oki • Katsuro Onoue • Kazuo Sagawa • Kenji Suzuki • Kiyoko Shibuya • Koichi Takano • Koichi Kawakita • Makoto Kamiya • Sadamasa Arikawa • Shinichi Kamisawa • Teruyoshi Nakano • Toru Matoba • Yoshio Tabuchi • Yoshiyuki Kuroda • Yuichi Kikuchi

Assistant directors	Hideki Oka • Ken Sano • Kiyotaka Matsumoto • Koji Kajita • Linto Ueda • Masakatsu Asai • Seiji Tani • Shogo Kiyosu • Takeharu Ikebuchi • Toshifumi Shimizu • Tsunesaburo Nishikawa • Yosuke Nakano

Writers

Screenwriters	Dean Devlin • Ei Ogawa • Gen Urobuchi • Hiroshi Aramata • Hiroshi Kashiwabara • Hiroyasu Yamaura • Kaoru Mabuchi • Kazuhiro Inaba • Kazuma Yoneyama • Kazunori Ito • Masahiro Yokotani • Masakazu Migita • Max Borenstein • Nisan Takahashi • Nobuhiko Ishii • Ruth Rose • Ryuzo Nakanishi • Shinichi Sekizawa • Shinichiro Kobayashi • Takeshi Nakazawa • Takeo Murata • Terry Rossio • Tetsuro Yoshida • Tetsuya Yamada • Toshio Yasumi • Wataru Mimura • Yukiko Takayama • Yusuke Watanabe • Zach Shields

Authors	August Ragone • Chiharu Sakazaki • Greg Keyes • Hideo Unagami • Ken Kuronuma • Kohan Kawauchi • Sakyo Komatsu • Satoshi Nakamura • Shigeru Kayama • Steve Ryfle

Producers

Executive producers	Dino De Laurentiis • Eric McLeod • Fumio Tanaka • Henry G. Saperstein • Hidemasa Nagata • Hiro Matsuoka • James H. Nicholson • John Beck • Keiji Ota • Kenji Okuhira • Masaichi Nagata • Minami Ichikawa • Osamu Tanaka • Reuben Bercovitch • Samuel Z. Arkoff • Shogo Tomiyama • Takahide Morichi • Tomoyuki Tanaka • Tsuguhiko Kadokawa • Yoshishige Shimatani

Producers/planners	Alex Garcia • Brian Rogers • Go Miyazaki • J.J. Abrams • Jon Jashni • Kazunari Yamanaka • Mary Parent • Ritsuko Suzuki • Takashi Yoshizawa • Thomas Tull • Yonejiro Saito

Camera & lighting

Cinematographers	Hajime Koizumi • Hajime Tsuburaya • Kazufumi Fujii • Keiichi Sakurai • Keizo Suzuki • Kenichi Eguchi • Kenya Mukai • Motoyoshi Tomioka • Shuzaburo Araki • Takeshi Yamamoto • Tokimaro Karasawa • Toshimitsu Oneda • Yuzo Kaneko

Lighting technicians	Kuichiro Kishida

Artists

Production designers	Akihiko Iguchi • Akira Inoue • Akira Sakuragi • Akira Watanabe • Hiromasa Shirai • Hiroshi Komura • Jiro Shirasaki • Owen Paterson • Takeo Kita • Tohl Narita • Toshio Miike • Toshiro Aoki • Yasuyuki Inoue • Yoshio Irie • Yoshio Suzuki

Illustrators	Bob Eggleton • Chris Mowry • Fuchimu Shimakura • Hideki Oka • James Stokoe • Jeff Zornow • Mahiro Maeda • Mario Larrinaga • Matt Frank • Minoru Yoshida • Noriyoshi Ohrai • Patrick Tatopoulos • Priscilla Tramontano • "Hurricane" Ryu Hariken • Shinichiro Kobayashi • Shinji Nishikawa • William Reynold Brown

Propmakers	Akira Yamada • Carlo Rambaldi • Eizo Kaimai • Fumihiko Yagi • Fuminori Ohashi • Fuyuki Shinada • Hidenori Yamaoka • Kakusei Fujiwara • Kanju Yagi and Yasuei Yagi • Keizo Murase • Marcel Delgado • Masao Yagi • Masayuki Kurahashi • Nobuhiro Ekubo • Nobuyuki Yasumaru • Norihiro "Nori" Honda • Ray Harryhausen • Rick Baker • Ryosaku Takayama • Shigeaki Ito • Shigeru Kawaguchi • Shinichi Wakasa • Shuichi Murakami • Teizo Toshimitsu • Tomoki Kobayashi • Tsutomu Kobayashi • Yuji Sakai

Musicians

Composers & arrangers	Akira Ifukube • Alexandre Desplat • Bear McCreary • Chumei Watanabe • Henry Jackman • Ikuma Dan • Kenjiro Hirose • Kow Otani • Kunio Miyauchi • Masaru Sato • Michiru Oshima • Naoki Sato • Reijiro Koroku • Riichiro Manabe • Sei Ikeno • Shiro Sagisu • Shunsuke Kikuchi • Takayuki Hattori • Tom Holkenborg • Yuji Koseki

Singers/performers	Emi Ito and Yumi Ito • Masato Shimon • XAI

Miscellaneous

Sound & editing	Bob Ducsay • Erik Aadahl • Hideyo Sasaki • Hisashi Shimonaga • Kazuji Taira • Ted Cheesman • Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Effects people	Hiroshi Mukoyama • Jim Rygiel • Kyuzo Yamamoto • Minoru Nakano • Pete Peterson • Sadao Iizuka • Satoshi Narumi • Tadaaki Watanabe • Tetsuo Ohya • Yukio Manoda

Miscellaneous	Kanzo Uni • Takashi Nakao • Yasuaki Sakamoto

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