is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and announcer. He is best known for his role in Kamen Rider

Kamen Rider (franchise)

The is a metaseries of manga and tokusatsu television programs and films created by manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. The various Kamen Rider media generally feature a motorcycle-riding superhero with an insect motif who fights supervillains often referred to as...

 series Kamen Rider Den-O

Kamen Rider Den-O

is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28, 2007 on TV Asahi, and concluded airing on January 20, 2008...

as the owner of the DenLiner. He has also appeared in multiple competitions of Sasuke

Sasuke (TV series)

Sasuke is a Japanese sports entertainment television special in which 100 competitors attempt to complete a four stage obstacle course. An edited version, renamed Ninja Warrior, is screened in at least 18 other countries....

 as a competitor and during that time has become one of only two people to fall off the Rolling Log obstacle in the First Stage and take the log with them. Ishimaru is currently voicing the narrator in the anime series Toriko

Toriko

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since 2008, and the individual chapters are being collected in 15 tankōbon volumes published by Shueisha. It follows the adventure of Toriko, a Gourmet Hunter, as he searches...

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Selected filmography

Year	Film	Role
1989	Black Rain Black Rain (Japanese film) is a 1989 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura and based on the novel of the same name by Ibuse Masuji. The events are centered on the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.-Plot:...	Aono
1997	Lost Paradise A Lost Paradise is 1997 novel by Japanese author Junichi Watanabe. It tells the story of a 54-year-old married former magazine editor, his affair with a 37-year-old married typesetter and their double-suicide. The couple, Kūki and Rinko, are modeled after the famous case of Sada Abe.The book became a bestseller...	Muramatsu
1999	Ring 2 Ring 2 , directed by Hideo Nakata, is the sequel to the Japanese horror film, Ring.Ring was originally a novel written by Koji Suzuki; its sequel, Rasen , was also adapted into a movie as the Ring movie's sequel...	Ômuta
2001	Onmyoji Onmyoji (film) is a Japanese movie that was released in 2001 and sent to the US in 2004. Directed by Yōjirō Takita, it tells of the exploits of Abe no Seimei, the Onmyoji from the court of the Emperor. He befriended bungling court noble, Minamoto no Hiromasa, who enlists his aid to defend the Heian emperor...	Onmyo-gashira
2001	Harmful Insect Harmful Insect is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Akihiko Shiota.-Awards:27th Hochi Film Award* Best Actor - Seiichi Tanabe24th Yokohama Film Festival*9th Best Film...	Middle-Aged Man in Convenience Store
2004	Kekko Kamen Kekko Kamen is originally a shōnen manga series from Japanese creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher...
	Kekko Kamen Returns Kekko Kamen is originally a shōnen manga series from Japanese creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher...
	Kekko Kamen: The MGF Strikes Back Kekko Kamen is originally a shōnen manga series from Japanese creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher...	Gozaemon Maru
	Kekko Kamen Surprise Kekko Kamen is originally a shōnen manga series from Japanese creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher...
2005	Spring Snow	Marquis Ayakura
	Always Sanchōme no Yūhi Always Sanchome no Yuhi is a 2005 film co-written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Yamazaki, based on Ryōhei Saigan's long-running manga Sanchōme no Yūhi. It was chosen as Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.-Plot summary:...	Shizuo Fujio
	The Man Behind the Scissors Hasami otoko is a 2005 film directed by Japanese director Toshiharu Ikeda.Based on a novel by Masayuki Shuno, the film is a psychological thriller about series of murders committed using scissors, the people who carried out the murders, and the police who are trying to catch them.-Plot:The film opens with a...
2007	Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born! Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born! is the theatrical film adaptation of the Kamen Rider Den-O TV series directed by Takao Nagaishi and written by Yasuko Kobayashi. The movie takes place between episodes 27 and 28 of the series, featuring the DenLiner and its passengers travel as far back as the Edo period of Japan.The film is...	Owner
2008	Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka is a Japanese tokusatsu film in the Kamen Rider franchise. Climax Deka is the second film to feature the characters of the television drama Kamen Rider Den-O and the first to feature the characters of Kamen Rider Kiva. It opened in theaters on April 12, 2008 as part of the...
	Saraba Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown
2009	20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope 20th Century Boys is a science fiction-mystery manga created by Naoki Urasawa. It won the 2001 Kodansha Manga Award in the General category, an Excellence Prize at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival, and the 2003 Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category. The last two volumes of the story were serialized under...	Police Superintendent
	Cho Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade Neo Generations: The Onigashima Warship	Owner, Station Master
2010	Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy is a series of films part of the Kamen Rider Den-O franchise, particularly its Cho-Den-O Series. It was released beginning on May 22, 2010, with each subsequent chapter of the trilogy released in two week intervals. Each of the films' subtitles contains the name of the protagonist...
2011	OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders is a film released on April 1, 2011, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Kamen Rider Series. The catchphrase for the movie is . While the film will feature all of the franchise's protagonists, the main heroes of the original Kamen Rider , Kamen Rider Den-O, and Kamen Rider OOO will be the...	Owner

External links

• Ishimaru's Official Website