Isshin Chiba

Biography

Isshin Chiba was born in Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan. He graduated from Miyagi Prefecture Kesennuma High School. After graduating from high school, he had the idea to become a stage actor. However, because he had no experience in such extracurricular activities in particular, he attended Katsuma Voice Actor's Academy in Tokyo. He started his career as a voice actor at age 22 in 1990. In 1997, he landed the role for which he is best known, the role of Jin Kazama from the Tekken fighting game series. Starting from Tekken 3, he voiced Jin in all other Tekken games, including crossovers Namco × Capcom, Street Fighter X Tekken, Project X Zone, Project X Zone 2, The King of Fighters All Star and adaptations Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Tekken: Bloodline and the Japanese dub of the live-action Tekken film. This makes Isshin Chiba the fifth single actor playing a videogame character the longest, behind Ed Boon, who voices Scorpion from Mortal Kombat, Takenobu Mitsuyoshi who voices Kage Maru from Virtua Fighter, Shin-ichiro Miki who voices Akira Yuki from Virtua Fighter, and Joseph D. Kucan, who voices Kane from Command & Conquer.

Filmography

Film

Big Wars (1993) – Operator

Detective Conan: Captured In Her Eyes (2000) – Detective Chiba

Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves (2001) – Crow Guard

Detective Conan: Countdown to Heaven (2001) – Detective Chiba

Rockman EXE Hikari to Yami no Program (2005) – Barrel

Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem (2006) – Officer Chiba

Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2011) – Jin Kazama

Lupin the 3rd vs. Detective Conan: The Movie (2013) – Detective Chiba

Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Sword Of Life And Death (2017) – Tie Di Xian

The Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These Seiran (2019) – Arthur von Streit

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom (2024) – Arnold Neumann

ONA

7 Seeds (2019) – Norikazu Kagami

Tekken: Bloodline (2022) – Jin Kazama

OVA

Please Save My Earth (1993) – Takashi Matsudaira

Fencer of Minerva (1994) – Harif

Detective Conan: Conan and Heiji and the Vanished Boy (2003) – Yousuke Moriguchi

Drama CD

Jigoku Meguri 1: Jyou – Hideo Kirishima/Fugitive (1988)

Saint Seiya – Sagittarius Aiolos (1997)

Deep Fear – Mookie Carver (1998)

Analyst no Yuutsu series 1: Benchmark ni Koi wo Shite – Yasunari Nogi (2002)

Hisoyaka na Jounetsu Series side story 2: Iro Koi – Kouichi Takeshima (2003)

Mossore (2003)

Synapse no Hitsugi – Kaidou (2007)

Ai nante Kueru ka yo (2008)

Koi Himeyamo – Ootake (2010)

Chikatetsu no Inu – Shinoda (2011)

S.O.S -secret ocean story- (Ep 3) – Lawrence (2016)

Tokusatsu

Ultraman Neos (2000) – Ultraseven 21 (eps. 2, 4, 6, 10 - 12)

Kamen Rider Decade (2009) – Garulu (ep. 4 - 5)

Tensou Sentai Goseiger (2010) – Matroid Zuteru-S of the Mach (ep. 35)

Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max (2011) – Kamen Rider X

Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger (2018) – Zarudan Hou (ep. 20)