# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/unsho-ishizuka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:41:40.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/unsho-ishizuka"
name: "Unshō Ishizuka"
slug: "unsho-ishizuka"
description: "Unshō Ishizuka  was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Katsuyama, Fukui. He was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of his death and was known for providing the voice of both the narrator and Professor Oak/Dr. Yukinari Okido on the Japanese anime series Pokémon. In addition to that, he regularly appeared in both the Japanese and English-language versions of the Pokémon anime, voicing Onix, Steelix and numerous other Pokémon."
tagline: "Japanese voice actor, narrator, director (1951-2018)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/Unsho-ishizuka.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-05-16"
deathDate: "2018-08-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.57497733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411167/"
    handle:    "nm0411167"
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    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0nI3sfFoiNC8PCQmu5kv6X"
    handle:    "0nI3sfFoiNC8PCQmu5kv6X"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump