Porco Rosso voice actor Shuuichirou Moriyama dies at the age of 86
Tuesday the television actor's agency e dubber Shuuichirou Moriyama announced that Moriyama died on February 8 at 21:10 pm. in a hospital in Saitama prefecture, due to pneumonia. He was 86 years old. His family will hold a private funeral service.
Moriyama was born in Nagoya City on July 26, 1934 and has been performing professionally for 63 years. Moriyama is probably best known in Japan and internationally for playing the lead role in the animated film. 'Porco Rosso di Hayao Miyazaki and the Studio Ghibli. His many other voice acting roles include the old partisan in Galaxy Express 999, Director of Aoba Baseball in Captain, the narrator in jormungandand Sakaki Hyobu in Ninja Scroll. He also voiced the role of Kojak in the Japanese crime television series (as well as other roles of actor Telly Savalas) and narrated the live-action Asahi TV .
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