Togo Igawa
Yoshiyuki Baba (馬場 義之, Baba Yoshiyuki, born 26 September 1946), known professionally as Togo Igawa (伊川 東吾, Igawa Tōgo), is a Japanese actor who works primarily in British films and television.
Togo Igawa | |
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伊川東吾 | |
| Born | Yoshiyuki Baba 26 September 1946 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Spouse(s) | Adrienne Baba |
| Website | www |
In recent years, he has had roles in major motion pictures such as Revolver, Memoirs of a Geisha and The Last Samurai. He has also appeared in the Israeli movie A Matter of Size and Hiro in Thomas & Friends movies Hero of the Rails and Misty Island Rescue in 2010.[1] Additionally, Igawa provides the voice for the character Professor Moshimo on the cartoon series Robotboy and the voice for the character Hiro, who first appeared in Hero of the Rails, in Thomas and Friends. He appears in 2011's Johnny English Reborn, the sequel to Johnny English, as English's Tibetan guru and is in the 2012 film Gambit playing businessman Takagawa.
His television roles have included appearances in Lovejoy, Yu-Gi-Oh, The IT Crowd,Torchwood, Thomas & Friends, Casualty, Archer, Doctor Who and The Crown.
Igawa voiced the main villain Colonel Lee in the video game Crysis Warhead and the Yakuza character Jiro in the video game Payday 2.
Personal life
Igawa lives in England with his wife Adrienne Baba. He became the first Japanese member of The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986.[2]
Filmography
Film
- Kagirinaku toumei ni chikai blue (1979) as Okinawa
- The Man Who Shot Christmas (1984) as Koji
- Half Moon Street (1986) as Japanese Waiter
- Just like a Woman (1992) as Akira Watanabe
- Incognito (1998) as Agachi
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as Japanese Man #1
- The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (1999) as Japanese Scuba Diver
- The Last Samurai (2003) as General Hasegawa
- Code 46 (2004) as a Driver
- Irish Jam (2006) as Mr. Suzuki
- Speed Racer (2008) as Tetsuo Togokahn
- The Hedgehog (2009) as Kakuro Ozu
- Hero of the Rails (2009) as Hiro (voice)
- A Matter of Size (2009) as Kitano
- Ninja (2009) as Sensei Takeda
- Misty Island Rescue (2010) as Hiro (voice)
- Johnny English Reborn (2011) as Ting Wang
- Gambit (2012) as Takagawa
- King of the Railway (2013) as Hiro (voice)
- 47 Ronin (2013) as Tengu Lord (voice)
- Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) as Old Monk
- Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist (2014) as Gotetsu
- Everly (2014) as Sadist[3]
- The Confessions (2016) as Japanese minister
- The Host (2020)
Television
- Gems (1985–1986) as Mr. Horikoshi/Mr. Jima
- Never the Twain (1988) as Japanese tourist
- Small World (1988) as Prof. Motakazu Umeda
- Forever Green (1989) as Mr. Okisawa
- Screen Two (1989) as Hiroto
- Lovejoy (1992) as Mr. Kashimoto
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime) (2005) as Jafar Shin (voice)
- Robotboy (2005–2008) as Professor Moshimo
- The IT Crowd (2006, 2008) as Yamamoto
- Torchwood (2006) as Dr. Tanizaki
- Thomas & Friends (2010–16; 2020) as Hiro (voice)
- Casualty (2014) as Than Sein
- Archer (2015) as Kentaro Sato (voice)
- Doctor Who (2017) as Secretary General
- The Amazing World of Gumball (2017) as Mr Yoshida, Mystical Narrator (voice)
- Doctors (2017) as Akio Tanaka
- Origin (2018) as Eiichi Yagami
- The Crown (2019) as Emperor Hirohito
Video games
- Perfect Dark Zero (2005) as Zhang Li[4]
- Genji: Days of the Blade (2006) as Musashibo Benkei
- Crysis Warhead (2008) as Colonel Lee
- Payday 2 (2015) as Jiro
- Total War: Shogun 2 (2010, cooperating with Sega and Creative Assembly) as game's narrator
References
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0407033/
- "Togo Igawa's biography". Retrieved 2021-01-13.
- Togo Igawa Everly
- "Togo Igawa". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 3 February 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of the title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.
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