Hisashi Igawa

Hisashi Igawa
Born (1936-11-17) 17 November 1936
Mukden, Manchukuo (present day Shenyang, China)
OccupationActor
Years active1955–present

Hisashi Igawa (井川比佐志 born 17 November 1936) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Dodesukaden, Ran and Madadayo. He starred in Abe Kōbō's production of The Man Who Turned Into A Stick, a surrealist play, in 1969.[1]

Selected filmography

Film

Year Film Role Notes Ref.
1962 Harakiri Retainer
Pitfall A miner Lead role [2]
1966 The Face of Another Man with Mole
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage Eigoro
1969 Goyokin Takeuchi Shinjiro
1970 Where Spring Comes Late Seiichi Kazami [3]
Dodes'ka-den Masuo Masuda
Tora-san's Runaway Tsuyoshi Kimura
1972 Summer Soldiers
1975 The Fossil Funazu
The Gate of Youth Park
1976 Fumō Chitai
1977 The Far Road
1978 Double Suicide of Sonezaki
1979 Gassan Iwazo
1985 Ran Shuri Kurogane [4]
Tampopo Running Man [5]
1986 Lost in the Wilderness Osamu Uemura [6]
1987 Hachiko Monogatari Maekawa
1988 Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis Ryokichi Tagami
1990 Dreams Nuclear Plant Worker
Boiling Point Otomo
1991 Rhapsody in August Tadao
1992 Luminous Moss prosecutor
1993 Madadayo Takayama
1998 Bullet Ballet Kudo
2000 After the Rain Kihei Ishiyama
2002 Letters from the Mountains
2004 Half a Confession Keiichi Fujibayashi
2005 Yamato The Chairman
2006 The Professor's Beloved Equation Housekeeper Agent
2009 Mt. Tsurugidake Nagamaru Saeki [7]
2010 Villain [8]
2015 Have a Song on Your Lips [9]
2022 The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai [10]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1983 Tokugawa Ieyasu Okuhara Shinjūrō Taiga drama [11]

Honours

References

  1. ^ Shields, Nancy (1996). Fake Fish: The Theater of Kobo Abe. Weatherhill: New York & Tokyo. ISBN 978-0834803541.
  2. ^ "おとし穴(1962)". Japanese Cinema Database. Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  3. ^ "家族". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  4. ^ "乱". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  5. ^ "タンポポ". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  6. ^ "植村直己物語". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  7. ^ "劔岳 点の記". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  8. ^ "悪人". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  9. ^ "くちびるに歌を". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 17 March 2026.
  10. ^ "峠 最後のサムライ". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  11. ^ "NHK大河ドラマ「徳川家康」". Rekishi Shōsetau Roman (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 February 2021.