---
name: "Eken Mine"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eken-mine"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 February 1935"
died: "6 February 2002"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
updated: "2026-09-17T06:20:50.809919+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Eken Mine

Actor. Born 15 February 1935 in Nagasaki, Japan. Died 6 February 2002.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 February 1935, Nagasaki, Japan
- **Died:** 6 February 2002
- **Active:** 1979–1986
- **Also known as:** みね えけん
- **Works often with:** [Hayao Miyazaki](https://film.one/person/hayao-miyazaki.md), [Hirokata Takahashi](https://film.one/person/hirokata-takahashi.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 80 (1), 1980s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4295375, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591092/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/552680

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Castle in the Sky*](https://film.one/film/castle-in-the-sky.md) (82)
- **Tubi:** [*The Castle of Cagliostro*](https://film.one/film/the-castle-of-cagliostro.md) (80)

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## Biography

Eken Mine (峰 恵研, Mine Eken) was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He was born on 15 February 1935 in Nagasaki Prefecture and died on 6 February 2002.

He joined Theatre Echo in 1961 after earlier stage work. His wife was voice actress Hiroko Maruyama. Mine worked mainly on dubbing Western films and provided voices for older men, fathers and villains in anime.

His credits include Archbishop's Driver (voice) in *The Castle of Cagliostro* (1979) and Underling (voice) in *Castle in the Sky* (1986). He also appeared in *Kamen Rider* (1971) and other tokusatsu and anime series.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, ja.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Castle in the Sky* (1986), Fi1m 82, as Underling (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/castle-in-the-sky.md)
- *The Castle of Cagliostro* (1979), Fi1m 80, as Archbishop's Driver (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-castle-of-cagliostro.md)

## Also known for

- *Berserk* (1997), Collette's Grandfather (voice)
- *Candy Candy* (1976), Garcia (voice)
- *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* (1980), (voice)
- *3000 Leagues in Search of Mother* (1976), Federico Menotti (voice)
- *Kamen Rider* (1971), Crab Beastman (voice), Dobsonfly Beastman (voice)
- *Panda! Go Panda!* (1972), Teacher (voice)
- *Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins* (1997), Additional Voices
- *Bubblegum Crisis* (1987), Mr. Chang (voice)

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