Hisashi Igawa

Hisashi Igawa
Born	(1936-11-17) 17 November 1936 (age 87) Mukden, Manchukuo (present day Shenyang, China)
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1955–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	Director	Notes	Ref
1962	Harakiri	Retainer	Masaki Kobayashi
	Pitfall	A miner	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Lead role	[2]
1966	The Face of Another	Man with Mole	Hiroshi Teshigahara
	Zatoichi's Pilgrimage	Eigoro
1969	Goyokin	Takeuchi Shinjiro
1970	Kazoku		Yoji Yamada
	Dodes'ka-den	Masuo Masuda	Akira Kurosawa
	Tora-san's Runaway	Tsuyoshi Kimura	Yoji Yamada
1972	Summer Soldiers		Hiroshi Teshigahara
1975	The Fossil	Funazu	Masaki Kobayashi
1976	Fumō Chitai
1977	The Far Road
1978	Double Suicide of Sonezaki
1979	Gassan	Iwazo	Tetsutaro Murano
1985	Ran	Shuri Kurogane	Akira Kurosawa
	Tampopo	Running man	Juzo Itami
1987	Hachiko Monogatari	Maekawa
1988	Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis	Ryokichi Tagami
1990	Dreams	Nuclear Plant Worker	Akira Kurosawa
	Boiling Point	Otomo
1991	Rhapsody in August	Tadao	Akira Kurosawa
1992	Luminous Moss	prosecutor	Kei Kumai
1993	Madadayo	Takayama	Akira Kurosawa
1998	Bullet Ballet	Kudo
2000	After the Rain	Kihei Ishiyama	Takashi Koizumi
2002	Letters from the Mountains		Takashi Koizumi
2004	Half a Confession	Keiichi Fujibayashi
2005	Yamato	The Chairman
2006	The Professor's Beloved Equation	Housekeeper Agent	Takashi Koizumi
2009	Mt. Tsurugidake	Nagamaru Saeki	Daisaku Kimura
2010	Villain		Lee Sang-il
2015	Have a Song on Your Lips		Takahiro Miki
2022	The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai		Takashi Koizumi		[3]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref
1983	Tokugawa Ieyasu	Okuhara Shinjūrō	NHK	Taiga drama	[4]

Honours

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (2002)
• Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2008)

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. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
3. "峠 最後のサムライ". eiga.com. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
4. "NHK大河ドラマ「徳川家康」". Rekishi Shōsetau Roman. Retrieved 23 February 2021.

External links

• Hisashi Igawa at IMDb