Taiten Kusunoki (楠 大典 Kusunoki Taiten?) is a Japanese voice actor who voiced Heihachi Mishima since Tekken: Bloodline.
Outside of the Tekken series, some of his notable roles include E-123 Omega from the Sonic series, and Nail from the Dragon Ball series. He also acts as the Japanese dub actor for the likes of Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
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- Kusunoki also took over the roles of The Hood in Thunderbirds Are Go! and Jet Black in the Netflix adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, after Unshō Ishizuka's death.
- Before Heihachi, Kusunoki also voiced Street Fighter villain, M. Bison. Kusunoki started out voicing both Heihachi and M. Bison outside the mainline game entries (namely Tekken Bloodline and Disney's Wreck It Ralph), prior to reprising the characters and first time in mainline game entries in Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6 at a same year (2024).