Kaneto Shiozawa Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Kaneto Shiozawa (塩沢 兼人 (Shiozawa Kaneto) (January 28, 1954 – May 10, 2000), real name Toshikazu Shiozawa (塩沢 敏一, Shiozawa Toshikazu) was a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo affiliated with Aoni Production. He had a distinctive cold, calm voice which usually typecast him in roles as villains or anti-heroes. His stage name originated from the Japanese director Kaneto Shindō. Shiozawa yearned to be a performer since his boyhood. He graduated from Nihon University Second Senior High School, where he learned to perform in its art department. On May 9, 2000, at around 4:00,... MORE

Kaneto Shiozawa (塩沢 兼人 (Shiozawa Kaneto) (January 28, 1954 – May 10, 2000), real name Toshikazu Shiozawa (塩沢 敏一, Shiozawa Toshikazu) was a Japanese voice actor from Tokyo affiliated with Aoni Production. He had a distinctive cold, calm voice which usually typecast him in roles as villains or anti-heroes. His stage name originated from the Japanese director Kaneto Shindō. Shiozawa yearned to be a performer since his boyhood. He graduated from Nihon University Second Senior High School, where he learned to perform in its art department. On May 9, 2000, at around 4:00, Shiozawa fell down the stairway of his home; he later fell unconscious, and died of a cerebral contusion the next day. He was 46. Fellow voice actor Hidekatsu Shibata was one of the attendees at his funeral. As a result, Greg Eagles, the American voice actor of Gray Fox, was once mistakenly reported to die from cerebral contusion. After Shiozawa's death, the following voice actors took over his ongoing roles: In the Guilty Gear series, Shiozawa's character Zato-1 dies sometime between the events of Guilty Gear X and Guilty Gear XX. As a replacement, the video games now instead feature Zato-1's shadow-like forbidden LESS