Etsushi Toyokawa

Etsushi Toyokawa
豊川 悦司
Born	(1962-03-18) March 18, 1962 Yao, Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1989–present
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)

Etsushi Toyokawa (Japanese: 豊川 悦司, Hepburn: Toyokawa Etsushi, born March 18, 1962) is a Japanese actor.

Biography

Born in Yao, Osaka, he studied at Shimizudani High School, and eventually dropped out of Kwansei Gakuin University to pursue a career in acting. He began by joining the sho-gekijo theatrical troupe "Under Thirty," which was known for the membership of another famous actor, Watanabe Eriko, at the time. Though like many new theatre actors at the time, he struggled to make ends meet until he got his first big break in 1992, in the television drama Night Head alongside Shinji Takeda, as one of two brothers with supernatural powers.

In 1993 he won the "Newcomer of the Year" award for his drama Kira Kira Hikaru, and the Popularity Award in 1996 for his work in the drama Love Letter.

He also won the Japanese Academy Award as best supporting actor three times, the Hochi Film Award for Love Letter, No Way Back and Hanako.

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1989	Kimi wa Boku ni Suki ni Naru
1990	Boiling Point	Okinawa-Rengou Kumichou
	Byouin e Ikou
1991	12 Nin no Yasashii Nihonjin
1992	Kira Kira Hikaru	Mutsuki Kishida
1993	Tsuribaka Nisshi 6
1994	Undo	Yukio
	Night Head	Naoto Kirihara	Leading role
	Ghost Pub	Nobuya Sugimoto
1995	Love Letter	Shigeru Akiba
	No Way Back	Yuji Kobayashi	American film
	Toire no Hanako-san	Yuji Sakamoto	Also known as School Mystery or Phantom of the Toilet
1996	Yatsuhaka-Mura	Kosuke Kindaichi	Leading role
1997	Kizu Darake no Tenshi	Mitsuru Kida	Leading role
2000	Face	Hiroyuki Nakagami
	Zawazawa Shimokitazawa
	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity	Kadoya Kaneo
2002	Inochi	Yutaka Higashi
	Dog Star	Shiro
2003	Moon Child	vampire Luca
2004	Tange Sazen	Tange Sazen	Leading role
	Lakeside Murder Case	Masaru Tsukumi
2005	The Man Behind the Scissors	Yasunaga
	Year One in the North	Ashirika
	The Great Yokai War	Yasunori Katō
	Loft	Makoto Yoshioka
2006	Hula Girls	Yojiro Tanikawa
	Nihon Chinbotsu	Yusuke Tadokoro
2007	Tsubaki Sanjuro	Hanbei Muroto	Remake of the Kurosawa film
	The Kiss	Akio Sakaguchi
	Southbound	Ichiro Uehara	Leading role
	The Investigation Game	Fumihiko Makishima	Leading role
2008	10 Promises to My Dog	Yuichi Saito
	Ishiuchi Jinjo Koto Shogakko: Hana wa Chiredomo	Yoshihito Yamazaki
	20th Century Boys	Otcho
2009	20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope	Otcho
	20th Century Boys 3: Redemption	Otcho
2010	Sword of Desperation	Kanemi Sanzaemon	Leading role
	A Good Husband	Shunsuke Kitami	Leading role
	Postcard	Keita Matsuyama	Leading role
2013	Platinum Data	Reiji Asama
	Human Trust	Harry Endo
2014	Judge!	Ichirō Ōtaki
	Climbing to Spring	Goro Tada
	Her Granddaughter	Jun Kaieda	Leading role
2016	Black Widow Business	Tōru Kashiwagi
2017	March Comes in Like a Lion	Kōda
	March Goes out Like a Lamb	Kōda
	The Blue Hearts	Tatsuya Akiyama
2018	Flea-picking Samurai	Senbē
	Laplace's Witch	Amakasu
	Punk Samurai Slash Down	Naitō Tatewaki
2019	Paradise Next	Shima	Leading role, Taiwanese-Japanese film
	Midway	Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto	American film
	Samurai Marathon	Ioki Suketora
2020	Last Letter
	One Summer Story	Tomomitsu Waragai
	Ichido mo Uttemasen
2021	Itomichi

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
1995	Aishiteiru to Itte Kure	Koji Sakaki	TBS	Leading role
2006	Bengoshi no Kuzu	Kuzu Motohito	TBS	Leading role
2011	Go	Oda Nobunaga	NHK	Taiga drama
2012	Beautiful Rain	Keisuke Kinoshita	Fuji TV	Leading role
2018	Hanbun, Aoi	Haori Akikaze	NHK	Asadora

Video games

• Lost Odyssey (2008)

External links

• Etsushi Toyokawa at IMDb