Masaharu Sato

Masaharu Sato
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Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	July 1, 1946
Place of birth:	Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Location:	Tokyo, Japan
Voice of:	Momiji Ooka

Masaharu Sato (佐藤 正治 ,Satō Masaharu), born July 1, 1946 in Ōta (Tokyo), is a Japanese voice actor and narrator working for Aoni Production.

In Detective Conan, he voices Jirokichi Suzuki, following the death of Kosei Tomita in 2020, but has also voiced minor characters. In Gosho Aoyama's first series Yaiba, he voices Musashi Miyamoto.

Biography

Masaharu Sato started his acting career by joining a children's theater company as a child actor. He later joined the drama club in junior high and high school, and in his first year of high school, he took the lead role and won fifth place in a metropolitan competition.

He continued to act when he was a student at Komazawa University's Faculty of Commerce, but dropped out of college to form a theater group, and after attending the Aoyama Sugisaku Memorial Actor Training School, he joined the theater company Sogen, where he worked part-time while working as a stage actor. Later, Akira Kamiya, who was a member of the same drama club at the same high school and had started voice acting, asked him if he would like to try it. He was married and went in for an interview without an exam, thinking that he will "give it a try," and joined Aoni Productions and began her career as a voice actor,.

In the TV animation "The Galaxy Express 999", that ran from 1978 to 1981, he was a regular on the show and had the opportunity to take on various roles, which opened his eyes to the fun of voice acting. After "Galaxy Express 999," he was selected for a major role, and since then his roles have been connected one after another. He joined the Yaiba voice cast in 1993 as the voice of supporting character Masaharu Sato. He joined the Detective Conan for the first time in 1996 as the cuplrit in episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case, and would play many one-time characters in the show. In December 2022, he gets his first notable role in Detective Conan, in episode 12 of the Hanzawa the Criminal anime.

He is a lecturer at the Osaka University of Arts, Department of Broadcasting, Voice Acting Course. He is good friends with fellow voice actors Akira Kamiya (Kogoro Mouri in DC) and Ryo Horikawa (Heiji Hattori in DC and Takeshi Onimaru in Yaiba). His younger brother Kimihiko Sato (佐藤 公彦, 1952-2017) was a singer.

Other notable roles

In Detective Conan

• The Coded Map of the City Case (episode 4): Kawana
• Conan vs. Kid vs. Yaiba - The Grand Battle for the Treasure Sword!! (OVA 1) : Musashi Miyamoto (recurring role from Yaiba)
• The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages (episode 304) : Serial bomber's accomplice
• The Lucky Cigar Case (episodes 318-319) : Eigo Kasahara
• Secret of the Tohto Film Development Studio (episodes 335-336) : Yoshihiko Negami
• A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed (episode 401-402) : Atomura
• The Blind Spot in the Karaoke Box (episode 507-508) : Tatsumi Moniwa
• The Scar that Evokes the Past (episodes 532-535) : Dokuro Kibo
• Conan & Kid's Battle For Ryoma's Treasure (episodes 627-628) : Shishihiko Tarumi
• The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love (episodes 681-683) : Ryusaku Fuemoto
• The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History (TV Special) : Foreign man A
• The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden (episodes 1018-1020) : Hogen Nishitsu

In Yaiba

• Heisei's Samurai Yaiba Appears (episode 1) : Sudo

Anime

• Galaxy Express 999 (1978) : Clone B
• Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) : Marigan, Twanning
• Tiger Mask II (1981) : Abdullah The Butcher
• Getbackers (2003) : Gen Radou
• Gegege no Kitarō : Gasha Dokuro
• Bleach : Kumoi Gyōkaku
• Fairy Tail (2010) : Ivan Dreyar
• Dragon Ball Super (2015) : Kame-Sennin
• Tsukimichi (2021) : Morris

References

1. 佐藤正治 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
2. Anime News Network

See also

• Staff