Teruyuki Kagawa

Teruyuki Kagawa
Born (1965-12-07) December 7, 1965
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation Actor
Years active 1989–present

Teruyuki Kagawa (香川 照之, Kagawa Teruyuki, born December 7, 1965) is a Japanese actor.

Biography

Born in 1965, his parents are the kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III and the cinema actress Yuko Hama. His grandmother is the film actress Sanae Takasugi.

In the Kabuki world, it is usual for the son of an actor to follow the father's footsteps since very early ages, but his parents divorced in 1968 and his mother was given the custody of him. After that event, he never saw his father again, and his mother refused to give him any training on the Kabuki art and he grew believing that it was "something that must not be watched". However he tried several times to meet his biological father. When he was 20, he went to one of his performances and asked if he could see him, stating that he was Ennosuke's son, but when his father's assistants reported to him the situation he refused, stating that he didn't have any son.

He graduated in social psychology at the University of Tokyo and decided to start a career in cinema.

Career

He has twice been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award at the Japanese Academy Awards, once for Warau Iemon and once for Kita no zeronen. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Mt. Tsurugidake.[1]

Reconciliation with his father

His first son Masaaki, born in 2004, shown interest in becoming a Kabuki actor. As a result, Teruyuki tried again to meet with his aged father and succeeded.[2]

At the same time, he decided to start his own career in Kabuki, at an age which is extremely unusual for an actor. The only time it happened was in 1910, when Ichikawa Danjuro IX's adopted and then son-in-law Ichikawa Sansho V decided to start his career at age 28 after his adoptive father's death.

In 2011, it was announced that on June 2012 he and his son, at their father and cousin's Shūmei, they would have taken the names, respectively, of Ichikawa Chusha IX and Ichikawa Danko V.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
2000Devils on the DoorstepKosaburo Hanaya
Suri
2001Man Walking on SnowRyoichi
2002Doing Time
2003NuanYawa
2004Akai Tsuki
Warau Iemon
Heaven's BookstoreTakimoto
QuillIsamu Nii
2005BashingHotel manager
Kita no zeronen
The Milkwoman
2006SwayMinoru Hayakawa
Memories of TomorrowAtsushi Kawamura
2007Sukiyaki Western DjangoSheriff Hoanka
KisaragiIchigo Musume
2008Tokyo!Hikikomori
Tokyo SonataRyūhei Sasaki
20th Century Boys: Beginning of the EndYoshitsune
200920th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope
20th Century Boys 3: Redemption
John RabePrince Asaka Yasuhiko
Snow PrinceArima Masamitsu
Mt. Tsurugidake
Kaiji 1Tonegawa
2011TormentedKohei
Ashita no JoeDanpei Tange
kaiji 2 The ultimate gamblerTonegawa
2012Key of LifeKondo
Rurouni KenshinTakeda Kanryū
2015Mozu
2016CreepyNishino
2019The Seven Conferences

Television

Year Title Role
1989Kasuga no TsuboneKobayakawa Hideaki
1990Wataru Seken wa Oni BakariMasayuki Tōyama
2000Aoi Tokugawa SandaiUkita Hideie
2002Toshiie to MatsuToyotomi Hideyoshi
2006Komyo ga TsujiRokuheita
Taigan no KanojoNarahashi Fumimasa
UnfairSato Kazuo
Unfair the Special - Code BreakingSato Kazuo
Yakusha Damashii!Yanagisawa Mitsuharu
2007Shimane no BengoshiAkita Ryoichi
Kitaro ga Mita Gyokusai - Mizuki Shigeru no SensoMizuki Shigeru & Private (Second Class) Maruyama
2009Mr. BrainTanbara Tomomi
Saka no ue no kumoMasaoka Shiki
2010RyōmadenIwasaki Yataro
2011Diplomat Kosaku KurodaTakeshi Shimomura
2012Penance
2013Hanzawa NaokiAkira Ohwada
2016MontageAkira Shōji
Yuriko-san no EhonMakoto Onodera
The SnifferKomukai

Awards

References

  1. ↑ 第 33 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
  2. ↑ Kyodo News, "At 46, actor continues in father's kabuki footstep", Japan Times, 6 June 2012, p. 3 Archived June 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Teruyuki Kagawa honored with John Rabe Award 2009 (www.john-rabe.de) Archived December 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.