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Yoshiyuki Baba (馬場 義之, Baba Yoshiyuki, born September 26, 1946),[1] known professionally as Togo Igawa (伊川 東吾, Igawa Tōgo), is a Japanese actor who works primarily in British films and television.

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Togo Igawa
伊川東吾
Born	Yoshiyuki Baba (1946-09-26) 26 September 1946 (age 76) Shibuya, Tokyo, Allied-occupied Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Adrienne Baba
Website	Official website

In recent years, he has had roles in major films 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.[2] 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 2013 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.[3]

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
• Revolver (2005) as Fred
• Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) as Tanaka
• 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[4]
• The Confessions (2016) as Japanese minister
• The Gentlemen (2019) as Wang Yong (Dry Eye's uncle)
• The Host (2020)
• Tetris (TBA) as Hiroshi Yamauchi

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 (2010–2020) as Hiro (voice)
• Casualty (2014) as Than Sein
• Marco Polo (2014) as Chuluun
• 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

• Shogun: Total War (2001) as Narrator
• Perfect Dark Zero (2005) as Zhang Li[5]
• 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
• Evil Genius 2: World Domination (2021) as Jubei
• Wolfstride (2020) as Oyabun

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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[de] Togo Igawa

Tōgo Igawa (jap. 伊川 東吾, Igawa Tōgo; * 26. September 1946 in Tokio, Japan) ist ein japanischer Schauspieler. Er arbeitet seit 1983 hauptsächlich beim Britischen Film.

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- [en] Togo Igawa

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