Personal Info

  • Known For

    Acting

  • Known Credits

    271

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    June 17, 1961 ( 63 years old )

  • Place of Birth

    Shiogama, Miyagi, Japan

  • Also Known As

    Kohichi Yamadera

    山寺 宏一

    やまでら こういち

    バズーカ山寺

    Bazooka Yamadera

    Yama-chan

    山ちゃん

    야마데라 코우이치

    Kouichi Yamadera

    Kôichi Yamadera

Koichi Yamadera

Koichi Yamadera is a Japanese voice actor and radio personality, known for voicing Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy in the Japanese language releases of their respective films. In 2006, he divorced voice actress Mika Kanai. His most notable characters are Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop (1998) and the subsequent follow up film Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001), Beerus from the longstanding Dragonball franchise, and the modern day voice of Inspector Zenigata of the longstanding Lupin the Third franchise after the retirement of the previous voice actor Gorō Naya and first appearing in the role in Lupin the Third: Blood Seal of the Eternal Mermaid (2011)