Takaya Kuroda

Biography

Takaya Kuroda is a Japanese actor and voice actor born on April 17, 1965, from Tokyo, Japan. He is best known for his bass voice, which has led to villainous roles such as Yaiba in GoGo Sentai Boukenger and the iconic protagonist Kazuma Kiryu in the Yakuza series. His distinctive voice was also chosen to replace Hirotaka Suzuoki as the voice of Starscream in Transformers: Cybertron due to Suzuoki's health issues.