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Masato Sako

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Occupation
  
Actor, voice actor

Education
  
Chuo University

Years active
  
1960-2003

Children
  
Mayumi Sako

Name
  
Masato Sako

TV shows
  
Brain Powerd

Role
  
Actor


Born
  
November 9, 1946
Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan

Died
  
January 11, 2003, Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Masato Sako (佐古正人, Sako Masato, November 9, 1946 – January 11, 2003) was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Iwakuni, Yamaguchi. He stood at 168 centimeters (5 feet, 7 inches) tall and weighed in at 62 kilograms (136 pounds).

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Sako dropped out of Chuo University. He then enrolled in the theater company Gekidan Kumo. He later transferred to Engekishūdan En. He has performed in Shakespeare, television dramas, dubs of western films and animation. His oldest daughter, Mayumi Sako, is enrolled in the Bungaku Company. On January 11, 2003, Masato Sako died of oral cancer in an Iwakuni hospital at the age of 56.

Successors

After Sako's death, the following actors were recruited to take over Sako's ongoing roles.

  • Shinji Ogawa (as Tōyama in Detective Conan)
  • Fumihiko Tachiki (as Kyōgoku Ken in Batman: The Animated Series)
  • Television drama

  • Enkana Aitsu ha yo Goto Pank Nayume wo Miru (????) (Dark Gorō)
  • Dai chūshingura (????) (Tadao Ōtaka)
  • Meiji no Gunzō: Umi ni Karin wo (????) (Hikojirō Nakamigawa)
  • Film

  • Minbō no Onna (????) (Health care center head)
  • Tokusatsu

  • Kaettekita Ultraman (????) (MAT Station member)
  • Uchū Keiji Sharivan (????) (Hoshio Kitagawa)
  • Television animation

  • Brain Powerd (????) (Winston Geybridge)
  • Detective Conan (????) (Masahiro Sannai, Tōyama (first voice), Yoshio Sadakane)
  • OVA

  • Ginga Eiyū Densetsu (????) (John Drinker Cope)
  • Theatrical animation

  • Taiho Shichauzo the Movie (????) (Sei Emoto)
  • Live action

  • Gary Oldman
  • Léon (Second DVD edition) (Norman "Stan" Stansfield)
  • The Fifth Element (Nippon TV edition) (Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg)
  • Air Force One (Ivan Korshunov)
  • Lost in Space (Doctor Zachary Smith)
  • Ben-Hur (2000 DVD edition) (Pontius Pilate (Frank Thring))
  • Beetlejuice (Charles Deetz)
  • Executive Decision (Doctor David Grant)
  • From the Earth to the Moon (TV edition) (Buzz Aldrin (episodes 6))
  • Ghostbusters II (TV Asahi edition) (Louis Tully (Rick Moranis))
  • Hero (Bernard 'Bernie' Laplante)
  • Millennium (Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn))
  • The Poseidon Adventure (TV Asahi edition) (Acres)
  • Romancing the Stone (Jack T. Colton)
  • The Running Man (TV Asahi edition) (Tony)
  • Still Crazy (Ray)
  • Straight Time (TV edition) (Max Dembo)
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (T-1000 (Robert Patrick))
  • Vampires (Valek)
  • Wild Wild West (Doctor Arliss Loveless)
  • Animation

  • Batman: The Animated Series (Kyōgoku Ken (first voice))
  • Lady and the Tramp (DVD edition) (Boris)
  • Toy Story 2 (Wheezie the Penguin)
  • References

    Masato Sako Wikipedia