is a Japanese actor and TV narrator. He is best known for his role in
Kamen Rider
The , also known as ''Masked Rider Series'' (until ''Kamen Rider Decade, Decade'' and except Thailand), is a Japanese superhero fiction, superhero media franchise consisting of tokusatsu television programs, films, manga, and anime, created by ...
series ''
Kamen Rider Den-O
is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28, 2007 on TV Asahi, and concluded airing on January 20, 2008. Its l ...
'' as
the owner of the DenLiner. He has also appeared in multiple competitions of
''Sasuke'' as a competitor and during that time has become one of only two people to fall off the Rolling Log obstacle in the First Stage and take the log with them. Ishimaru is the narrator in the anime series ''
Toriko
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from May 2008 to November 2016, with its chapters collected into 43 volumes. The seri ...
''. He also narrates
TV Asahi
JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as , and better known as , is a Japanese television station serving the Kanto region as the flagship station of the All-Nippon News Network. It is owned-and-operated by the a subsidiary of , itself controlled by ...
's series ''
See the World by Train
is a Japanese short factual television programme broadcast daily by TV Asahi since June 1987. Produced by Telecom Staff and sponsored by Fujitsu, it follows railway journeys in various countries around the world, featuring people on board the tr ...
'', which has run since June 1987.
Selected filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1953 births
Living people
People from Ōita Prefecture
Contestants on Japanese game shows
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
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