Mari Shimizu(Japanese:Nước trong マリ,Hepburn:Shimizu Mari,born 7 June 1936)is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with81 Produce.[1]She is known for voicing thetitular protagonistof the 1963Astro Boytelevision series and its1980 colour remake,Belo inHumanoid Monster Bem,and the titular protagonist ofJetter Mars.
Mari Shimizu | |
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Nước trong マリ | |
| Born | 6 July 1936 Urawa, Saitama,Empire of Japan |
| Occupation | Voice actress |
| Years active | 1963–present |
| Employer | 81 Produce |
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Biography
editEarly life
editShimizu, the daughter of actorGen Shimizuand aMitsukoshiseamstress, was born on 7 June 1936 inMotobuto,an area inUrawa-ku, Saitama.[2][3]DuringWorld War II,her family lived in poverty.[4]Shimizu was educated atUrawa Nishi High School,where she was part of their theater club, and afterwards theHaiyuza Theatre Company's school.[4][5]
Originally, she was a pitcher for her junior high school's softball team.[2]However, when her father's theater troupe had no child actors to play the titular character of their stage adaptation ofThe Adventures of Pinocchio,Shimizu was selected for the role, inspiring her to become an actor.[5]She later became part of Gekidan Shinjinkai.[3]In addition to working as an actress, Shimizu worked as actressMisako Watanabe's apprentice and as a production assistant.[5]
Astro Boy
editIn 1962,Osamu Tezukaintroduced Shimizu to his manga series,Astro Boy,[6]after Kaoru Anami, a childhood acquaintance of Shimizu's and futureMushi Productionexecutive, recommended her to Tezuka due to a conversation in which they noted Pinocchio's inspiration of Astro Boy and Shimizu's previous role as Pinocchio.[7]Although she had not read manga and was even unaware of Astro Boy's existence,[8]she was later cast as the titular character in the anime's originalpilot episodeand the subsequent anime series.[5]During production, she became pregnant, and after a doctor advised against working during her pregnancy, she took an eight-episode break from the role withKazue Tagamias her substitute, resulting in several children complaining to the show's broadcasting network,Fuji TV.[9][8]
Tezuka originally wanted Atom's voice actress to remain unchanged,[10]and Shimizu reprised her role as Astro Boy in the show's1980 colour remakeand in the 2000 filmThe Last Mystery of the 20th Century.[11]However, Tezuka died in 1989,[10]and on 6 April 2003, she retired from voicing Astro Boy, later saying in a 2013 interview with Seiyū Grand Prix that she wanted a younger voice actor to succeed her.[12]
Later career and life
editIn 1968, Shimizu starred inHumanoid Monster Bemas Belo,[11]a character she later recalled struggling with by having to convey "a dark image because he was a child crawling under the ground".[13]In 1977, Shimizu was cast as the titular character ofJetter Mars;[11]she later recalled that during the series' production, she felt a lack of patience over voicing the only child character and rising tensions.[13]In 1978, she voicedJim HawkinsinTreasure Island,later recalling that the character "left an impression on [her]".[9]Other characters Shimizu voiced include Mame-tan inDetective Brat Pack,Kanbō inSabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae,Tomiko Shimamoto inAttack No. 1,Ken inHitori Bocchi,Inspy inMarine Boy,Tetsuji inIkkyū-san,Gorō Makino inUchu Enban Daisenso,Mirun inGaiking,Kira inGalaxy Express 999,Yusuf inAnimation Kikō: Marco Polo no Bōken,Patty inTriton of the Sea,Adam inUndersea Super Train: Marine Express,Prince Alor inBeast King GoLion,Peko inDoraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil,Tezuka's mother inThe Tezuka Osamu Story: I Am Son-goku,and Ricky in the 2004–2006 anime adaptation ofBlack Jack.[11]
Shimizu wanted to focus on Shinjinkai afterAstro Boy's final episode, but she had a child while the series was still airing, making it difficult to participate in stage acting, and moved to the same office asNobuyo Oyama,her friend from the Haiyuza school.[9]Shimizu later worked forAoni ProductionandProduction Baobab,[14]before moving to81 Produce.[1]
Shimizu is nicknamed as the "Mother of Voice Actors"(Thanh ưu の mẫu,Seiyū no haha).[15]In 2006, she won a Special Achievement Award at the 5thTokyo International Anime Fair.[16]She was one of the three winners of the Synergy Award at the3rd Seiyu Awardsin 2009.[17]In 2017, she won the Merit Award at the11th Seiyu Awards.[18]She was a guest at the 2016Nara International Film Festival's Astro Boy screening[15]and at the 2023 Grand Rapids Comic-Con.[19]She has also served as the secretary of Urawa Nishi High School'salumni association.[2]
In 2015, Shimizu's autobiography,Tetsuwan atomu to tomo ni ikite: seiyū ga kataru anime no sekai(Thiết cổ tay アトムと cộng に sinh きて－ thanh ưu が ngữ るアニメ の thế giới,lit. "Living With Astro Boy: The Anime World As Told By A Voice Actor" ), was published by Sakitama Publishing.[4]Shimizu said that she wrote the book because she "wanted to leave her past that way".[4]
Shimizu later became a voice acting teacher,[2][10]teaching at theInstitute of Sound Arts.[14]
Filmography
editTelevision
edit- Astro Boy(1963), Astro Boy[11]
- Detective Brat Pack(1968), Mame-tan[11]
- Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae(1968), Kanbō[11]
- Humanoid Monster Bem(1968), Belo[11]
- Marine Boy(1969), Inspy[11]
- Attack No. 1(1969), Tomiko Shimamoto[11]
- Ikkyū-san(1975), Tetsuji[11]
- Gaiking(1976), Mirun[11]
- Jetter Mars(1977), Jetter Mars[11]
- Galaxy Express 999(1978), Kira[11]
- Treasure Island,Jim Hawkins(1978)[11]
- Animation Kikō: Marco Polo no Bōken(1979), Yusuf[11]
- Undersea Super Train: Marine Express(1979), Adam[11]
- Astro Boy(1980), Astro Boy[11]
- Beast King GoLion(1981), Prince Alor[11]
- Black Jack(2004), Ricky[11]
- Triton of the Sea,Patty[3]
Film
edit- Hitori Bocchi(1969), Ken[11]
- Uchu Enban Daisenso(1975), Gorō Makino[11]
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil(1982), Peko[11]
- The Tezuka Osamu Story: I Am Son-goku(1989), Tezuka's mother[11]
- The Last Mystery of the 20th Century(2000), Astro Boy[11]
References
edit- ^ab"Nước trong マリ".81 Produce.Retrieved21 April2023.
- ^abcd"Sơ đại ・ thiết cổ tay アトム thanh ưu nước trong マリ thanh xuân nhìn lại thượng tử".Urawa Asahi.23 September 2015.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^abcUno, Mitsuhiro (5 January 2016)."Nước trong マリ ( ７９ ) ＝ thanh ưu ＝ có thai ９カ nguyệt まで “Thiết cổ tay アトム” đại dịch に “Thanh が vi う” と tử cung たちから điện thoại が… ( 8/8ページ ) ".Sankei Shimbun.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^abcdUno, Mitsuhiro (8 July 2015)."Phổ cùng から phi んだ “Thiết cổ tay アトム” thanh ưu ・ nước trong マリさんが tự vân xuất bản ".Sankei Shimbun.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^abcd Shimizu, Mari (2 November 2013)."みんなでひとつ の sân khấu を làm っていくという cảm 覚が hảo きだった".Seiyū Grand Prix(Interview). Archived fromthe originalon 19 March 2015.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^Shimizu, Mari (5 January 2016)."Nước trong マリ ( ７９ ) ＝ thanh ưu ＝ có thai ９カ nguyệt まで “Thiết cổ tay アトム” đại dịch に “Thanh が vi う” と tử cung たちから điện thoại が… ( 1/8ページ ) ".Sankei Shimbun(Interview). Interviewed by Mitsuhiro Uno.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^Shimizu, Mari (5 January 2016)."Nước trong マリ ( ７９ ) ＝ thanh ưu ＝ có thai ９カ nguyệt まで “Thiết cổ tay アトム” đại dịch に “Thanh が vi う” と tử cung たちから điện thoại が… ( 2/8ページ ) ".Sankei Shimbun(Interview). Interviewed by Mitsuhiro Uno.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^abShimizu, Mari (5 January 2016)."Nước trong マリ ( ７９ ) ＝ thanh ưu ＝ có thai ９カ nguyệt まで “Thiết cổ tay アトム” đại dịch に “Thanh が vi う” と tử cung たちから điện thoại が… ( 5/8ページ ) ".Sankei Shimbun(Interview). Interviewed by Mitsuhiro Uno.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^abcShimizu, Mari (16 November 2013)."Không tư nghị なご duyên でさまざまな tố tình らしい tác phẩm に tuần り sẽ えた".Seiyū Grand Prix(Interview). Archived fromthe originalon 21 April 2015.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^abcShimizu, Mari (5 January 2016)."Nước trong マリ ( ７９ ) ＝ thanh ưu ＝ có thai ９カ nguyệt まで “Thiết cổ tay アトム” đại dịch に “Thanh が vi う” と tử cung たちから điện thoại が… ( 7/8ページ ) ".Sankei Shimbun(Interview). Interviewed by Mitsuhiro Uno.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy"Nước trong マリ".GamePlaza Haruka.Archived from the original on 5 August 2020.Retrieved21 April2023.
- ^ Shimizu, Mari (30 November 2013)."Cảm tình を biểu hiện するにはたくさん の kinh nghiệm を tích まないといけない".Seiyū Grand Prix(Interview). Archived fromthe originalon 21 April 2015.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^abShimizu, Mari (5 January 2016)."Nước trong マリ ( ７９ ) ＝ thanh ưu ＝ có thai ９カ nguyệt まで “Thiết cổ tay アトム” đại dịch に “Thanh が vi う” と tử cung たちから điện thoại が… ( 6/8ページ ) ".Sankei Shimbun(Interview). Interviewed by Mitsuhiro Uno.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^ab"Chủ な giảng sư".Institute of Sound Arts.Archived fromthe originalon 28 March 2013.Retrieved22 April2023.
- ^ab"Tay trủng trị trùng の ngữ ったことが hiện thật に… Nguyên tổ アトム thanh ưu, メッセージを nay に giới ける".Cinema Today.25 September 2016.Retrieved21 April2023.
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- ^Loo, Egan."3rd Annual Seiyū Award Winners Officially Announced (Updated)".Anime News Network.Retrieved22 April2023.
- ^Pineda, Rafael Antonio (21 February 2017)."Some of the 11th Annual Seiyū Awards Winners Announced".Anime News Network.Retrieved20 April2023.
- ^Hazra, Adriana (30 January 2023)."Grand Rapids Comic-Con Spring Fling Event Hosts Yuji Kaida, Mari Shimizu".Anime News Network.Retrieved20 April2023.