Nov 27, 2011

The voice actor of Belamis in Hong Kong version

After a few searches, I think I found the voice actor for the Hong Kong version of Belamis.

Her surname is 曾,but due to the patchiness of Internet information, three similar names turned up 曾慶鈺、曾庆瞹 or 曾庆旺。I finally confirmed that the name should be 曾慶鈺.

There were a number of similarities between 曾慶鈺 and Ohara Noriko。
She also voice acted a number of the same characters by Ohara Noriko 小原乃梨子,including 野比のび太 (大雄) in ドラえもん (Doraemon 多啦A夢/叮噹) and Conan 高立 コナン (Conan the future boy 未来少年コナン 高立的未來世界)。

Like Ohara,she voiced acted also the many of the movie editions of ドラえもん (Doraemon 多啦A夢/叮噹)。

曾慶鈺 emigrated to Canada in 1991 and the role of 野比のび太 was taken up by another female voice actor 盧素娟。2006 盧素娟 was sick with cancer, and she could not finish the dubbing of another ドラえもん (Doraemon) movieドラえもん のび太のワンニャン時空伝 (大雄的貓狗時空傳)。

The company called 曾慶鈺 back in order to finish the dubbing work of the movie.

The records of Hong Kong voice actors were incomplete, many of the shows before 1980 were missing from the online version.
Judging from the pattern, it was quite likely that she also voice acted a few other same characters in Cantonese as those by Ohara. For example I recognized 曾慶鈺's voice in several other cartoons which Ohara voice acted.

I remebered the Chinese voice of Belamis, and was surprised to find out that the voice color, quality and tone was so similar to the original Japanese soundtrack, as if Ohara Noriko talking in Cantonese (one variation of Chinese used by several tens of millions of Chinese) - the voices are nearly identical in style, matched closely that of Ohara's orginal dub.

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