Togo Igawa
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Togo Igawa | |
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| 伊川東吾 | |
| Born | Yoshiyuki Baba 26 September 1946 |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Spouse | Adrienne Baba |
| Website | Official website |
Yoshiyuki Baba (馬場 義之, Baba Yoshiyuki, born 26 September 1946), known professionally as Togo Igawa (伊川 東吾, Igawa Togo), is a Japanese actor who works primarily in British films and television.
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 InThomas & 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.
Filmography
Film
- Kagirinaku toumei ni chikai blue as Okinawa (1979)
- The Man Who Shot Christmas as Koji (1984)
- Half Moon Street as Japanese Waiter (1986)
- Just like a Woman as Akira Watanabe (1992)
- Incognito as Agachi (1998)
- Eyes Wide Shut as Japanese Man #1 (1999)
- The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz as Japanese Scuba Diver (1999)
- The Last Samurai as General Hasegawa (2003)[2]
- Code 46 as a Driver (2004)
- Irish Jam as Mr. Suzuki (2006)
- Speed Racer as Tetsuo Togokahn (2008)
- The Hedgehog as Kakuro Ozu (2009)
- Hero of the Rails as Hiro (voice) (2009)
- A Matter of Size as Kitano (2009)
- Ninja as Sensei Takeda (2009)
- Misty Island Rescue as Hiro (voice) (2010)
- Johnny English Reborn as Ting Wang (2011)
- Gambit as Takagawa (2012)
- King of the Railway as Hiro (voice) (2013)
- 47 Ronin as Tengu Lord (voice) (2013)
- Hector and the Search for Happiness as Old Monk (2014)
- Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist as Gotetsu (2014)
- Everly as Sadist (2014)[3]
- The Confessions as Japanese minister (2016)
Television
- Gems as Mr. Horikoshi/Mr. Jima (1985-1986)
- Never the Twain as Japanese tourist (1988)
- Small World as Prof. Motakazu Umeda (1988)
- Forever Green as Mr. Okisawa (1989)
- Screen Two as Hiroto (1989)
- Lovejoy as Mr. Kashimoto (1992)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime) as Jafar Shin (voice) (2005)
- Robotboy as Professor Moshimo (2005-2008)
- The IT Crowd as Yamamoto (2006, 2008)
- Torchwood as Dr. Tanizaki (2006)
- Thomas & Friends as Hiro (voice) (2010–2020)
- Casualty as Than Sein (2014)
- Archer as Kentaro Sato (voice) (2015)
- Doctor Who as Secretary General (2017)
- The Amazing World of Gumball as Mr Yoshida & Mystical Narrator (voice) (2017)
- Origin as Eiichi Yagami (2018)
- The Crown as Emperor Hirohito (2019)
Video games
- Perfect Dark Zero as Zhang Li (2005)
- Genji: Days of the Blade as Musashibo Benkei (2006)
- Crysis Warhead as Colonel Lee (2008)
- Payday 2 as Jiro (2015)
- Total War: Shogun 2 as game's narrator (2010, cooperating with Sega and Creative Assembly)
