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name: "Yusaku Yara"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 March 1948"
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# Yusaku Yara

Actor. Born 15 March 1948 in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 March 1948, Adachi, Tokyo, Japan
- **Also known as:** Tetsu Kurobe, Яра Юсаку, Susumu Kawabe, Yuusaku Yara, 屋良有作, 川部奖, 川部奨
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3113155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946344/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/547982

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Tokyo Godfathers*](https://film.one/film/tokyo-godfathers.md) (82)

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## Biography

Yūsaku Yara is a Japanese voice actor, actor and narrator born on 15 March 1948 in Tokyo. His real name is Susumu Kawabe and he previously worked under the stage name Tetsu Kurobe. He has been active since 1975 and is affiliated with Aoni Production.

He is known for voice roles including Ishida in the film *Tokyo Godfathers* (2003), Genpachi in *Ninja Scroll* (1993), Sagittarius Aiolos in the *Saint Seiya* series, Rod Reiss in *Attack on Titan* (2013) and Tecchin Tecchikawahara in *Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba* (2019). He has also dubbed foreign films, notably early roles for Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tokyo Godfathers* (2003), Fi1m 82, as Ishida (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/tokyo-godfathers.md)

## Also known for

- *Attack on Titan* (2013), Rod Reiss (voice)
- *Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba* (2019), Tecchin Tecchikawahara (voice)
- *Ninja Scroll* (1993), Genpachi (voice)
- *Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold* (2015), Sagittarius Aiolos (voice)
- *SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac* (2019), Sagittarius Aiolos (voice)
- *Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug* (1991), Lord Slug (young)
- *Vampire Hunter D* (1985), Greco (voice)
- *Wise Man's Grandchild* (2019), Merlin Walford (voice)

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