, better known as , is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from Kanagawa Prefecture. He is affiliated with Aoni Production.
He had roles in the Initial D series (as Jōshima Toshiya "God Hand"), Naruto (as Might Guy), Eat-Man (as Bolt Crank), the Shakugan no Shana series (as Alastor the Flame of Heavens), Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! (as Doctor Tsuchiya), Buso Renkin (as Captain Bravo), The Transformers (as Ratchet) and Final Fantasy XIII (as Sazh Katzroy). He is also the official dub-over artist of Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Wesley Snipes, Bruce Campbell and Robin Williams. He was also the first dubbing voice actor of Andy García and Alec Baldwin in their early days. Much of his roles are occupied by Koichi Yamadera in different editions of the films.
Background Ebara graduated from Tōkyōtoritsu Chitosegaoka Senior High School. He initially did not aspire to be an actor, but he chose to attend the Toho Performing Arts Academy to learn the trade because he admired the work of Charlie Chaplin as a student. After previously working with Gekidan Subaru, he affiliated himself with 81 Produce, but he is now affiliated with Aoni Production.
Filmography
Television animation 1987 Transformers: The Headmasters (Spike Witwicky, Scattershot/Computron, Pounce) 1990 Robin Hood no Daibōken (Baron Alwyn) 1991 Soreike! Anpanman (Unadonman, Pineappleman, Princess Dorian, Crayonman) 1992 O~i! Ryoma (Yamauchi Yōdō) The Laughing Salesman (Kenzō Warii (episode 93), Shokudō no Oyaji (December 26, 1992 special)) 1993 Nintama Rantarō (Young Ryūōmaru, Heishirō Kusai) 1994 Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R (Chiral) Yu Yu Hakusho (Yomi) 1996 Baketsu de Gohan (Zubrofsky) Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! (Doctor Tsuchiya) Raideen the Superior (Kraken) 1997 Eat-Man (Bolt Crank) 1998 Eat-Man '98 (Bolt Crank) 1999 Cowboy Bebop (Andy Von de Oniyate) Master Keaton (Robert Fenders) Pocket Monsters (Jangō) 2000 Love Hina (Kōji Maehara) Platinumhugen Ordian (Baltoro) Shūkan Storyland (Leader, narration) 2001 PaRappa Rappa (Boxy Boy) Shaman King (Dōen) The SoulTaker (Richard Vincent) 2002 Tottoko Hamtaro (Lion-sensei) 2003 Astro Boy: Mighty Atom (Archer) Gad Guard (Jack Bruno) Gunslinger Girl (Hilshire) Mugen Senki Potorisu (Black-clothed man) Naruto (Might Guy) 2004 Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (George Challenger) Fullmetal Alchemist (Hohenheim Elric) Kaiketsu Zorori (Gaon, Husky) 2005 Majime ni Fumajime: Kaiketsu Zorori (Gaon, Husky) Shakugan no Shana (Alastor) Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyūdensetsu Sanada Ten Braves The Animation (Kuroda Nagamasa) Xenosaga: The Animation (Ziggurat 8) 2006 Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z (Mojo Jojo) Ergo Proxy (MCQ) 2007 El Cazador de la Bruja (Shop Manager) Naruto: Shippuden (Might Guy, Might Duy) Nodame Cantabile (Sebastiano Viella) Shakugan no Shana Second (Alastor) 2008 Michiko to Hatchin (Old Gentleman) Negibōzu no Satarō (Aona no Shakimi) 2011 Shakugan no Shana Final (Alastor) 2012 Sword Art Online (Godfree) 2013 Magi: The Kingdom of Magic (Shambal Ramal) Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Osamu Yamanami) 2014 Future Card Buddyfight (Hitotaba Neginoyama/Captain Answer, Vlad Dracula) Tokyo ESP (Shin Kakuno) Nisekoi (Adlet Wogner Kirisaki) 2016 One Piece (Raizō) 2017 Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love (Osamu Yamanami) Vatican Miracle Examiner (Archbishop Saul) 2018 Pop Team Epic (Popuko (Series 1 Episode 1-A, Series 1 Remix Episode 12-B), Daddy (live-action portrayal) (Series 2 Episode 1)) 2019 No Guns Life (Christina Matsuzaki) 2021 Baki Hanma (Bob McCarthy) 2022 Life with an Ordinary Guy Who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout (Narrator) 2023 Dark Gathering (Nankobo) 2026 The Ghost in the Shell (Handa Seiki President)
Unknown date Black Jack (Myū) Buso Renkin (Captain Bravo, Narrator) Crayon Shin-chan (Majī Di Gamecchini) Deltora Quest (Fallow, Prandine) Detective Conan (Keigo Endō, Yūji Mikasa) Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (Gonzales) Hakaba Kitarō (Johnny the Vampire) Initial D series (Jōshima Toshiya) Jungle King Tar-chan (Alan) Kamisama Kazoku (Osamu Kamiyama) Kasumin (Haruo Kirima) Kekkaishi (Kouya) Kodomo no Omocha (Rick, narration) Legendz: Tale of the Dragon Kings (Yul Hepburn) Love Get CHU ~Miracle Seiyū Hakusho~ (Kuroiwa) Madlax (Friday Monday) Magical Princess Minky Momo (Papa) Mashin Eiyūden Wataru (Thunder Blue) Obake no Horry (Nyangirasu, Mukimukin) Onegai My Melody ~ Kurukuru Shuffle!~ (Flat-kun's papa) Pokonyan (Papa (Shigeru Konoha), Chanpuku) PoPoLoCrois Monogatari (White Knight) Robin Hood no Daibōken (Lord Alwine) Soreike! Uchū Senkan Yamamoto Yōko (Meo-Toroll no Fūrigā) Yokoyama Mitsuteru Sangokushi (Xun Yu)
OVA Iczer Reborn (1990) (Rob) Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1991) (Rockwell) Armored Trooper Votoms: Kakuyakutaru Itan (1994) (Godiba) Vampire Hunter: The Animated Series (1997) (Bishamon) Detatoko Princess (1998) (Healthy three siblings) Le Portrait de Petit Cossette (2004) (Marchello Orlando)
Unknown date .hack//Liminality (Jun'ichirō Tokuoka) FAKE (Berkeley Rose) Genocyber (Captain) Giant Robo The Animation – The Day the Earth Stood Still (Professor Go Gakujin) The Hakkenden (Chudai, Daisuke Kanamari) Jigoku Dō Reikai Tsūshin (Ghost) Kidō Senshi SD Gundam Hakobiya Rigazi no Kiseki (Gerugugu) Kidō Senshi SD Gundam SD Gundam Mō Race (Kozaku) Kidō Senshi SD Gundam Yume no Maron Sha (Sazaby) Sakura Taisen Gōka Kenran (Shigeki Kanzaki) SD Sengokuden Musha Shichinin Shuu Hen (Kozaku) Shakugan no Shana SP: Koi to Onsen no Kōgai Gakushū! (Lord of the Crimson Realm Alastor) Soreike! Uchū Senkan Yamamoto Yōko (Meo-Toroll no Fūrigā)
Theatrical animation Perfect Blue (1998) (Murano) Metropolis (2001) (Ham Egg) One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals (2002) (Count Butler) Pokémon Heroes (2002) (Latios) Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! Yakiniku Road of Honor (2003) (Chōkurō Shimoda) Bleach: Memories of Nobody (2006) (Ganryu) Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (2012) (Might Guy) Kizumonogatari II Nekketsu-hen (2016) The House of the Lost on the Cape (2021)
Unknown date Resident Evil: Degeneration (Frederic Downing) Shakugan no Shana (Lord of the Crimson Realm Alastor) A Tree of Palme (Gariko)
Video games Ace Combat 3 (1999) () Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (2004) (Seryozha Viktrovich Nikanor) Kingdom Hearts II (2005) (Lumiere) Final Fantasy XIII (2009) (Sazh Katzroy) Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011) (Sazh Katzroy) Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013) (Monsoon) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (2013) (Sazh Katzroy) Soulcalibur VI (2018) (Azwel) Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (2020) (Mr. Satan)
Unknown date Aba Renbō Princess (Henry Orion) Asura's Wrath (Deus) Atelier Viorate ~Alchemist of Gramnad 2~ (Offen Schwach) Beyond: Two Souls (Cole Freeman) (Japanese dub) Brave Fencer Musashi (Yami no Majin, Reigando, Rento, Rūmu) Dairantō Smash Brothers X (Latios) Dark Sector (Robert Mezner) Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus (Alastor) Initial D Arcade Stage series (Jōshima Toshiya) Heart of Darkness (Amigo, Servant) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (Mohammed Avdol) Kabu Trader Shun (Tōru Narasaki) The Legend of Xanadu series (Daimos) Nanatsuiro Drops Pure!! (Lord of the Crimson Realm Alastor) PoPoLoCrois Monogatari II (White Knight) Remember 11: The Age of Infinity (Seiji Yomogi) Sakura Taisen 2 ~Kimi, Shinitamō koto Nakare~ (Shigeki Kanzaki) Scandal (Ryō) Shadow Hearts: From the New World (Ricardo Gomez) Shakugan no Shana (Lord of the Crimson Realm Alastor) Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (Dr. M) (Japanese dub) Sonic and the Secret Rings (Erazor Djinn) Sō Raku Toshi Osaka (Iwai Sanjan) Spider-Man (Shocker, J. Jonah Jameson) (Japanese dub) Tales of Eternia (Fog, Shadow) Tales of Fandom Vol.1 (Fog) Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2 (Fog) Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 (Fog) Tropico (Minister's secretary) Warriors Orochi 4 (Ujiyasu Hojo) (replacing Unsho Ishizuka) Xenosaga I & II (Ziggurat 8) Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (Ziggurat 8) Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Ziggurat 8) Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (Ziggurat 8) Xenosaga Freaks (Ziggurat 8) Zone of the Enders (Nōman)
Puppetries The Three Musketeers (2009–2010) (Aramis, M. de Tréville, Cardinal Richelieu) Sherlock Holmes (2014) (Deputy Headmaster Moriarty, Barnicot)
TV drama Kashin (1977) (Issei Maebara) Kusa Moeru (1979) (Follower) Shōgun (1980) (Suga) Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) (Attendant)
Tokusatsu Kamen Rider Black RX (1988) Gekisou Sentai Carranger (1996) (PP Rappa (ep. 11)) Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (2011) (Dyrandoh (ep. 41 – 44, 49 – 51)) Rider Time Shinobi (2019) (Yami Shinobi)
Radio drama Kerberos Panzer Jäger (2006) (Captain Deisler)
CD Buso Renkin (????) (Captain Bravo) The Legend of Xanadu II: Heroine-tachi no Tanjōbi (????) (Daimos) Xenosaga Outer File (????) (Ziggurat 8)
Dubbing roles
Live-action Tom Hanks Sleepless in Seattle (1997 Fuji TV edition) (Sam Baldwin) Forrest Gump (VHS/DVD and 2000 Fuji TV editions) (Forrest Gump) Apollo 13 (VHS/DVD and 2003 Fuji TV editions) (Jim Lovell) Saving Private Ryan (VHS/DVD edition) (Captain John H. Miller) You've Got Mail (2001 Fuji TV edition) (Joe Fox) The Green Mile (VHS/DVD and 2002 Fuji TV editions) (Paul Edgecomb) Road to Perdition (Michael Sullivan, Sr.) Catch Me If You Can (Carl Hanratty) The Ladykillers (G.H. Dorr, Ph. D) The Terminal (VHS/DVD and Fuji TV editions) (Viktor Navorski) The Da Vinci Code (DVD/BD and 2009 Fuji TV editions) (Robert Langdon) Charlie Wilson's War (Charlie Wilson) Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon) Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Oskar Schell) Captain Phillips (Richard Phillips) Bridge of Spies (James B. Donovan) Inferno (Robert Langdon) A Hologram for the King (Alan Clay) Sully (2020 The Cinema edition) (Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger) The Circle (Eamon Bailey) The Post (Ben Bradlee) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Fred Rogers) Greyhound (Captain Ernest Krause) Brain Games (Tom Hanks) News of the World (Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd) Finch (Finch Weinberg) Elvis (Colonel Tom Parker) Pinocchio (Geppetto) A Man Called Otto (Otto Anderson) Bill Murray Stripes (John Winger) Scrooged (Francis Xavier "Frank" Cross) Ghostbusters II (1992 Fuji TV edition) (Doctor Peter Venkman) Mad Dog and Glory (Frank Milo) Ed Wood (Bunny Breckinridge) Kingpin (Ernie McCracken) Larger than Life (Jack Corcoran) Space Jam (Bill Murray) The Man Who Knew Too Little (Wallace Ritchie) Wild Things (DVD edition) (Kenneth Bowden) Cradle Will Rock (Tommy Crickshaw) Charlie's Angels (John Bosley) Lost in Translation (Bob Harris) The Darjeeling Limited (The Businessman) The Monuments Men (Sgt. Richard Campbell) St. Vincent (Vincent MacKenna) On the Rocks (Felix Keane) The Greatest Beer Run Ever (The Colonel) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Lord Krylar) Robin Williams Good Morning, Vietnam (1993 Fuji TV edition) (Adrian Cronauer) Dead Poets Society (1994 Fuji TV edition) (John Keating) Mrs. Doubtfire (1998 Fuji TV edition) (Daniel Hillard) Jumanji (VHS/DVD/Blu-ray, 1998 Fuji TV and 2000 TV Asahi editions) (Alan Parrish) Nine Months (Dr. Kosevich) Jack (2001 Fuji TV edition) (Jack Powell) Jakob the Liar (Jakob) Bicentennial Man (VHS/DVD edition) (Andrew Martin) Insomnia (2006 TV Tokyo edition) (Walter Finch) One Hour Photo (Sy Parrish) House of D (Pappas) Man of the Year (Tom Dodds) RV (Bob Munro) Wesley Snipes Demolition Man (Simon Phoenix) Drop Zone (1998 TV Asahi edition) (Pete Nessip) Money Train (VHS/DVD and 2001 TV Asahi editions) (John) The Fan (1998 TV Asahi edition) (Bobby Rayburn) Murder at 1600 (1999 TV Asahi edition) (Detective Harlan Regis) One Night Stand (Maximilian Carlyle) Futuresport (Obike Fixx) U.S. Marshals (2001 TV Asahi edition) (Mark J. Sheridan/Warren/Roberts) Disappearing Acts (Franklin Swift) Undisputed (Monroe "Undisputed" Hutchen)