Goemon Ishikawa is the thirteenth descendant of a family of Japanese thieves. He is the archetype of the perfect samurai: austere style of life, deep sense of the honor and apparent nuts for the women (but at times the feelings involve it also: in “Bye Bye Liberty” he loves a woman).
His arms is an sword that can cut each thing (it is told have been forged from the contained metal in a meteorite). Thank you to the his irony discipline succeeds to finish enterprises of an inconceivable perfection with the own sword and, he consider discreditable cut barren objects. His teacher has been Momochi no Jijii that has taught him to be a truth assassin. In the episode n.5 “Goemon the samurai” of the first series, the old Momochi from order to Goemon of killing Lupin but he hasn’t succeed. Afterward, in the episode n.7, born friendship among Goemon and Lupin: from that moment in then the two will be always friends and Goemon will become fundamental element of the group in the situations “difficulty”. A curiosity: the figure of Goemon Ishikawa has based on a historic really personage, a samurai son became a thief he was boiled alive, to ending of 16th century, for ording of Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
PERSONAL DATA
Height: 180cm
Weight: 63kg
Hair: black
Eyes: black
Profession: thief
Nationality: japanese
Age: unknown
Preferred Weapon: Zantetsu-ken (“Sword That Cuts Iron”) “Nagareboshi”
Japanese Voice: Chikao Ohtsuka (1971), Makio Inoue (since 1977), Kaneto Shiozawa (Fuma’s Conspiracy)
Italian Voice: Enzo Consoli, Massimo Rossi, Vittorio Guerrieri and Antonio Palumbo
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