Taitem Kusunoki
Taitem Kusunoki (楠 大典 Kusunoki Taiten, born on March 18, 1967) is a Japanese voice actor who was born as Daisuke Fukuda (福田大典 Fukuda Daisuke). Some of his more notable roles include Ibiki Morino in Naruto, Nail in Dragon Ball Kai, Harimao in Lupin III: Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure, Boris in Black Lagoon, Joseph Copeland in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Antonio Lopez/Rock Bison in Tiger & Bunny and Professor Utonium in Powerpuff Girls Z. In video games, he is the voice of E-123 Omega in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
In the world of dubbing, Kusunoki has played Goliath in Disney's Gargoyles, Lt. Stone in G.I. Joe Extreme, Heavy Duty in G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, John Stewart/Green Lantern in the DC Animated Universe, Dengar in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Shocker in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, the Lizard in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Lucas Bishop (Omar Sy) in X-Men: Days of Future Past, M. Bison in Wreck-It Ralph and he's one of the dub-over voices for both The Rock and Tyrese Gibson.
Roles
Car Robots
Micron Legend
Galaxy Force
Movie (2007)
Transformers Adventure
Transformers Adventure -Prime of Micron-
- Optimus Prime
Bumblebee
Notes
- Kusunoki has dubbed for Tyrese Gibson in numerous films, including Annapolis, Four Brothers, Flight of the Phoenix and 2 Fast 2 Furious. As fate would have it, though, he did NOT dub Gibson in the live-action Transformers film series. Jin Yamanoi got that job.
- Kusunoki has dubbed for The Rock in numerous films, including G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Get Smart, Faster and Walking Tall. And yet the job of playing Prime Cliffjumper went to Noriaki Sugiyama. He just can't win.
