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Also known as Daisuke Gori, Gōri Daisuke, Gori Daisuke
Daisuke Gōri was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Kōtō, Tokyo. Throughout his life, he was attached to TV Talent Center Tokyo, Yoshizawa Theatre School and then Mausu Promotion; he was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death. His real name, as well as his former stage name, was Yoshio Nagahori . He was best known for his roles in the Dragon Ball series as Mister Satan and numerous other characters, the Gundam series as Dozle Zabi and Bask Om, Ninja Scroll as Gemma Himuro, Kinnikuman as Robin Mask, Patlabor as Hiromi Yamazaki, Star Fox as General Pepper, Andross, and Pigma Dengar, Dead or Alive as Bass Armstrong, Tekken as Heihachi Mishima, and Soulcalibur as Edge Master – as well for his distinctive deep, booming voice.
Daisuke Gōri (郷里 大輔, Gōri Daisuke; February 8, 1952 – January 17, 2010) was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Kōtō, Tokyo. Throughout his life, he was attached to TV Talent Center Tokyo, Yoshizawa Theatre School and then Mausu Promotion; he was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death. His real name, as well as his former stage name, was Yoshio Nagahori (長堀 芳夫, Nagahori Yoshio). He was best known for his roles in the Dragon Ball series as Mister Satan and numerous other characters, the Gundam series as Dozle Zabi and Bask Om, Ninja Scroll as Gemma Himuro, Kinnikuman as Robin Mask, Patlabor as Hiromi Yamazaki, Star Fox as General Pepper, Andross, and Pigma Dengar, Dead or Alive as Bass Armstrong, Tekken as Heihachi Mishima, and Soulcalibur as Edge Master – as well for his distinctive deep, booming voice.
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Death
According to fellow voice actors, Gōri was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus a few years prior to his death and his vision was affected by retinal detachment as a result of the disease. He complained to coworkers, "I cannot read the script. I cannot work as I want." (「台本が読めない。思うように仕事ができない。」) During an Anpanman recording session in late 2009, a depressed-sounding Gōri told his close friend and voice actor Kazuhiko Inoue, "I've grown old" (「もう年だよ」).
On January 17, 2010 at approximately 3:00 P.M., Gōri was found lying on his stomach with blood dripping from his wrists in the middle of a street in Nakano, Tokyo by a passerby, who then notified the police. Authorities from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Nakano station discovered a utility knife under his body as well as a suicide note (with the words "I'm sorry" (ごめんね) and "Thank you" (ありがとう) scrawled on it) addressed to his family in his pants pocket. Gōri's death was then ruled a suicide; he was three weeks short of his 58th birthday. His ongoing roles were replaced primarily by Ryūzaburō Ōtomo and the late Unshō Ishizuka.
Filmography
Television animation
1973
Cutie Honey (Narrator)
1979
Mobile Suit Gundam (Dozle Zabi)
Entaku no Kishi Monogatari: Moero Arthur (Percival)
1980
Ashita no Joe 2 (Kichi Chinpira)
Moeru Arthur: Hakuba no Ōji (Subordinate)
Nils no Fushigi na Tabi (Gachō #B)
Mighty Atom (Observation Robot (episode 34), Operation Robot (ep 39))
Time Patrol tai Otasukeman (Pupil A)
1981
Ginga Senpū Braiger (Garicone Commanding Officer)
Dash Kappei (Ushiyama)
Gold Lightan (Sayokka)
Sengoku Majin GōShōgun (Yatter Ra Kerunagūru)
1982
Ginga Reppū Baxinger (Igo Mokkosu)
Gyakuten! Ippatsuman (Koizō Higeno, Yakan)
Minami no Niji no Lucy (Heracles, Max)
Sasuga no Sarutobi (Executive #B)
Tokimeki Tonight (Crépemonger, Henchman)
1983
OVA
Guyver (1989) (Derzerb)
Ys (1989) (Norton)
Ninja Ryūkenden (1991) (Jeffrey Hammond)
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991) (Bask Om)
Ushio and Tora (1992) (Asako's father)
Gunsmith Cats (1995) (Jonathan Washington)
Tekken: The Motion Picture (1997) (Heihachi Mishima)
Transformers: Zone (1997) (Violenjiger, Trypticon)
Zaion: I Wish You Were Here (2001) (Prof. Domeki)
Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! (2008) (Mister Satan, Umigame, Gyū-Maō)
Theatrical animation
Fist of the North Star (1986) (Uighur)
Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure (1988) (Umigame)
Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone (1989) (Gyū-Maō)
Patlabor: The Movie (1989) (Hiromi Yamazaki)
Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest (1990) (Misokattsun, Umigame)
Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug (1991) (Dorodabo)
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993) (Gyū-Maō, Umigame)
