Togo Igawa

Togo Igawa
, known professionally as , is a Japanese actor who works primarily in British theatre, films and television.
In recent years, he has had roles in major films such as Revolver, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai, and A Matter of Size.
Additionally, Igawa provides the voices of Professor Moshimo in Robotboy, and Hiro in the Thomas & Friends franchise starting with 2009's Hero of the Rails. Besides these, he also 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 Duel Monsters, The IT Crowd, Torchwood, 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.
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
The Confessions (2016) as Japanese minister
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) as Resistance Bridge Officer
The Gentlemen (2019) as Wang Yong (Dry Eye's uncle)
The Host (2020)
Tetris (2023) 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
Drop the Dead Donkey (1996) as Mishima
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (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
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
Living people
Male actors from Tokyo
People from Shibuya
Japanese male film actors
Japanese expatriates in the United Kingdom
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
Royal Shakespeare Company members
Japanese male stage actors
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
1946 births