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name: "Hideyuki Tanaka"
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born: "12 November 1950"
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# Hideyuki Tanaka

Actor. Born 12 November 1950 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 November 1950, Tokyo, Japan
- **Also known as:** 田中 秀幸, Tanaka Hideyuki, 田中秀幸
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2440809, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848987/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67471

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Paprika*](https://film.one/film/paprika.md) (80)

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## Biography

Hideyuki Tanaka (田中 秀幸) is a Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator. He was born on 12 November 1950 in Ōta, Tokyo, and graduated from Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. He is affiliated with Aoni Production and has worked in anime, video games, narration and tokusatsu since the 1970s.

He is known for voicing Donquixote Doflamingo in *One Piece* (1999–), Leo Aiolia and the narrator in *Saint Seiya* (1986–) and its sequels, Kiminobu Kogure in *Slam Dunk* (1993–), Grimmer in *Monster* (2004), Fujitaka Kinomoto in *Cardcaptor Sakura* (1998), and BG9 in *Bleach* (2004). In film he voiced Guy in *Paprika* (2006) and D in *Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust* (2000). He also voices Zoffy in the *Ultraman* series and Hal Emmerich (Otacon) in the *Metal Gear* games.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Paprika* (2006), Fi1m 80, as Guy (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/paprika.md)

## Also known for

- *One Piece* (1999), Donquixote Doflamingo (voice)
- *Bleach* (2004), BG9 (voice)
- *Saint Seiya* (1986), Narrator / Aiolia (voice)
- *Slam Dunk* (1993), Kiminobu Kogure (voice)
- *Monster* (2004), Grimmer (voice)
- *Cardcaptor Sakura* (1998), Fujitaka Kinomoto (voice)
- *Detective Conan* (1996)
- *Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold* (2015), Leo Aiolia / Narrator (voice)

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