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Japanese actor and voice actor

Ben Hiura
Born	(1943-01-25) January 25, 1943 (age 81) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1960s–present
Children	Akaneko Hiura
Website	https://www.seinenza-eihou.com/profile-1/eihou-m/hiura-b/

Ben Hiura (樋浦勉, Hiura Ben, born Tsutomu Hiura (樋浦勉, Hiura Tsutomu), January 25, 1943) is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. Hiura is known for dubbing over Bruce Willis, Richard Dreyfuss, John Malkovich, Joe Pesci and many more.

Filmography

Films

Goyokin (1969) – Rokuzo
Fuji sanchō (1970) – A Man
Mount Hakkoda (1977) – Sato
Eijanaika (1981)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Tōki Rakujitsu (1992)
Zatōichi (2003)
Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015) – Ichizō
Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020)

Television drama

Ultraman (1966) – A Truck driver
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) – Hattori Hanzō
Sanga Moyu (1984)
Edo o Kiru (1994)
Shinsengumi Keppūroku (1998)
Kamen Rider Hibiki (2005)
Kamen Rider W (2010)
Sanada Maru (2016) – Ōsumi Yozaemon

Television animation

Lupin the 3rd Part II (1979) – Gabotto, Bakki
Master Keaton (1999) – Kendoru
Golgo 13 (2009) – Roy
Gosick (2011) – Kazuya's father
Danchi Tomoo (2013) – Kimifumi Hazama
Your Lie in April (2014) – Junzō Ibata
Ace Attorney (2016) – Judge
One Piece (2017) – Zunisha

OVA

Submarine 707R (2003) – Captain Yōhei Hayami

Video games

Kingdom Hearts II (2005) – Banzai
Project X Zone (2012) – Bruno Delinger
Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015) – Evgeny Rebic
Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind (2021 Remake) (2021) – Zenzou Tanabe

Dubbing roles

Live-action

Bruce Willis
- Die Hard – John McClane
- Die Hard 2 – John McClane
- Hudson Hawk – Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins
- The Last Boy Scout – Joe Cornelius Hallenbeck
- Death Becomes Her (1996 NTV edition) – Dr. Ernest Menville
- Nobody's Fool – Carl Roebuck
- North – Narrator, Easter Bunny, Gabby
- 12 Monkeys – James Cole
- Die Hard with a Vengeance – John McClane
- Four Rooms – Leo
- Bandits – Joe Blake
- Hart's War – Colonel William A. McNamara
- Hostage (2009 TV Asahi edition) – Police Chief Jeff Talley
- Sin City – Det. John Hartigan
- Live Free or Die Hard – John McClane
- Catch .44 – Mel
- A Good Day to Die Hard (2015 Collector's Box edition) – John McClane
- The Prince – Omar
- Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – John Hartigan
- Extraction – Leonard Turner
- Precious Cargo – Eddie Pilosa
- Reprisal – James
- Breach – Clay Young
- Deadlock – Ron Whitlock
- A Day to Die – Alston
- Wrong Place – Frank Richards
- Wire Room – Shane Mueller
Richard Dreyfuss
- Jaws (1981 NTV edition) – Matt Hooper
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1982 TV Asahi edition) – Roy Neary
- The Goodbye Girl (1982 TBS edition)– Elliot Garfield
- The Big Fix (TBS edition) – Moses Wine
- The Buddy System (NTV edition) – Joe
- Stand by Me (1989 Fuji TV edition) – The Writer
- Stakeout (1994 NTV edition) – Det. Chris Lecce
- Always (VHS,DVD and Blu-ray and 1995 NTV editions) – Pete Sandich
- Let It Ride (VHS edition) – Jay Trotter
- Once Around – Sam Sharpe
- Another Stakeout (1998 NTV edition) – Det. Chris Lecce
- Mr. Holland's Opus (1997 TV Asahi edition) – Glenn Holland
- The Crew – Bobby Bartellemeo
- Fail Safe – The President
- My Life in Ruins – Irv Gideon
- Squatters – David
- Audrey – Robert Dreyfuss
Robert De Niro
- Midnight Run – Jack Walsh
- Cape Fear – Max Cady
- Meet the Parents – Jack Tiberius Byrnes
- Meet the Fockers – Jack Tiberius Byrnes
- Stardust – Captain Shakespeare
- Everybody's Fine – Frank Goode
- Little Fockers – Jack Tiberius Byrnes
- Killer Elite – Hunter
- New Year's Eve – Stan Harris
- Freelancers – Captain Joe Sarcone
- The Big Wedding – Don Griffin
- Killing Season – Benjamin Ford
- The Bag Man – Dragna
- Heist – Francis "The Pope" Silva
- Hands of Stone – Ray Arcel
- Killers of the Flower Moon – William King Hale
John Malkovich
- In the Line of Fire (1996 TV Asahi edition) – Mitch Leary
- Con Air (2000 TV Asahi edition) – Cyrus Grissom
- Burn After Reading – Osbourne Cox
- Red – Marvin Boggs
- Secretariat – Lucien Laurin
- Red 2 – Marvin Boggs
- Warm Bodies – Colonel Grigio
- Deepwater Horizon – Donald Vidrine
- Unlocked – Bob Hunter
- Bullet Head – Walker
- The New Pope – Pope John Paul III
Joe Pesci
- Lethal Weapon 2 (1993 TV Asahi edition) – Leo Getz
- Home Alone (1998 TV Asahi edition) – Harry Lime
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1996 TV Asahi edition) – Harry Lime
- Lethal Weapon 3 (1995 TV Asahi edition) – Leo Getz
- Casino – Nicholas "Nicky" Santoro
- Lethal Weapon 4 (2001 NTV and 2003 TV Asahi editions) – Leo Getz
- The Irishman – Russell Bufalino
Danny DeVito
- Twins (1991 TV Asahi edition) – Vincent Benedict
- Batman Returns – Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin
- Jack the Bear – John Leary
- Mars Attacks! – Rude Gambler
- Matilda – Harry Wormwood
- What's the Worst That Could Happen? – Max Fairbanks
Gary Busey
- Bulletproof (1990 TV Asahi edition) – Frank McBain
- Predator 2 (1994 TV Asahi edition) – Peter Keyes
- Point Break – Angelo Pappas
- Under Siege – Commander Krill
- The Rage (TV Tokyo edition) – Art Dacy
Robin Williams
- Awakenings – Dr. Malcolm Sayer
- Hook – Peter Banning/Peter Pan
- Good Will Hunting – Sean Maguire
- The Final Cut – Alan Hakman
- The Butler (2016 BS Japan edition) – Dwight D. Eisenhower
48 Hrs. (1985 NTV edition) – Albert Ganz (James Remar)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension – Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow)
Alien: The Director's Cut – Brett (Harry Dean Stanton)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1980 TV Tokyo edition) – Lieutenant Ethan Bishop (Austin Stoker)
Battlestar Galactica – Sire Uri (Ray Milland)
Beverly Hills Cop II – Maxwell Dent (Jürgen Prochnow)
Big Game – Herbert (Jim Broadbent)
The Big Lebowski (Blu-Ray edition) – Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski (David Huddleston)
The Bodyguard – Mail Man (Yuen Wah)
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day – Louie "The Roman" / "The Old Man" (Peter Fonda)
Cool Runnings – Irving Blitzer (John Candy)
CSI: Cyber – D.B. Russell (Ted Danson)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980 Movie theater edition) – Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams)
Daddy's Home 2 – Don Whitaker (John Lithgow)
Das Boot (1983 Fuji TV edition) – Chief Engineer (Klaus Wennemann)
Dinosaurs – Earl Sinclair (Stuart Pankin)
Doomsday – Marcus Kane (Malcolm McDowell)
Dune – Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Kenneth McMillan)
Eraser (1999 NTV edition) – Johnny Casteleone (Robert Pastorelli)
Falling Down – William "D-Fens" Foster (Michael Douglas)
Forrest Gump (1998 NTV edition) – Lieutenant Dan Taylor (Gary Sinise)
Getaway – Mysterious Voice (Jon Voight)
Ghost Ship – Captain Sean Murphy (Gabriel Byrne)
The Hard Way – Lieutenant John Moss (James Woods)
Hatfields & McCoys – Jim Vance (Tom Berenger)
The Haunted Mansion – Ezra (Wallace Shawn)
The Hitcher (1987 TV Tokyo edition) – John Ryder (Rutger Hauer)
Hobo with a Shotgun – Hobo (Rutger Hauer)
House of Gucci – Aldo Gucci (Al Pacino)
The Hudsucker Proxy – Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman)
Iceman: The Time Traveler – Hojo Shogun (Yasuaki Kurata)
Insomnia – Will Dormer (Al Pacino)
Internal Affairs – Officer Dennis Peck (Richard Gere)
Kill Bill: Volume 2 – Johnny Mo (Gordon Liu)
Kung Fu Hustle – The Landlord of the Pig Sty Alley (Yuen Wah)
Marked for Death (1995 TV Asahi edition) – Screwface (Basil Wallace)
Master with Cracked Fingers – Old Master (Yuen Siu-tien)
The Matrix (2002 Fuji TV edition) – Cypher (Joe Pantoliano)
Million Dollar Baby – Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood)
Mission: Impossible – Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny)
The Monkey King – Dragon King of the East Sea (Liu Hua)
Natural Born Killers – Warden Dwight McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones)
The Passage – Captain Von Berkow (Malcolm McDowell)
Proud Mary – Benny (Danny Glover)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1993 DVD edition) – Major Arnold Toht (Ronald Lacey)
Raising Cain – Dr. Carter Nix (John Lithgow)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Marshall Murdock (Charles Napier)
The Return of the Living Dead (1987 NTV edition) – Freddy (Thom Mathews)
Return of the Living Dead Part II (1989 NTV edition) – Joey (Thom Mathews)
Rogue One – Admiral Raddus
Saaho – Narantak Roy (Jackie Shroff)
Safe House – Harlan Whitford (Sam Shepard)
Scarface (1989 TV Asahi edition) – Tony Montana (Al Pacino)
Shooter – Colonel Isaac Johnson (Danny Glover)
Superman III (1985 TV Asahi edition) – August "Gus" Gorman (Richard Pryor)
Survivor – Bill Talbot (Robert Forster)
The Sweeney – Detective Inspector Jack Regan (Ray Winstone)
Taboo – Sir Stuart Strange (Jonathan Pryce)
Tai Chi 0 – Grand Uncle (Stanley Fung)
Tai Chi Hero – Grand Uncle (Stanley Fung)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows – Splinter
Total Recall (1992 TV Asahi edition) – Benny (Mel Johnson Jr.)
True Lies – Salim Abu Aziz (Art Malik)
A Walk in the Woods – Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte)
The Young Master – Ah Suk (Fung Fung)

Animation

Cars – Ramone
Cars 2 – Ramone
Cars 3 – Ramone
Kung Fu Panda 3 – Master Shifu
Kung Fu Panda 4 – Master Shifu
The Lion King – Banzai
Toy Story 2 – Al McWhiggin
Trolls World Tour – King Thrash

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External links

Seinenza profile (in Japanese)
Ben Hiura at IMDb
Ben Hiura at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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