Teruyuki Kagawa

Teruyuki Kagawa (香川 照之, Kagawa Teruyuki; born December 7, 1965) is a Japanese actor, kabuki actor (as Ichikawa Chūsha IX (九代目 市川中車, Kyūdaime Ichikawa Chūsha)), and boxing commentator. Unlike most other Kabuki actors in his family (such as his father Ichikawa En'ō II and his cousin Ichikawa Ennosuke IV) who play both male and female roles, he is a tachiyaku actor, meaning his specialty is playing male roles, as well as being known for being one of the best katakiyaku actors (i.e., kabuki actors specializing in villain roles) of the current generation of Kabuki actors.

Teruyuki Kagawa
Born	(1965-12-07) December 7, 1965 (age 59) Tokyo, Japan
Other names	Ichikawa Chūsha IX Master Kamakiri
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1989–present
Agent	Lotus Roots
Children	Ichikawa Danko V (son)
Parent(s)	Ichikawa Ennosuke III (father) Yūko Hama (mother)
Relatives	Ichikawa Danshirō II (great-great-grandfather) Ichikawa En'ō I (great-grandfather) Ichikawa Danshirō III (grandfather) Ichikawa Danshirō IV (uncle) Ichikawa Ennosuke IV (cousin)
Website	Teruyuki Kagawa Official Site

Biography

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

In the Kabuki world, it is common for the son of an actor to follow in his father's footsteps from a very early age, but his parents divorced in 1968 and his mother was given custody. After that, he totally lost contact with his father, and his mother refused to give him any training in 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.

Sexual harassment

On August 24, 2022, a Japanese media outlet reported that Kagawa had forcibly touched a woman in July, 2019. Kagawa admitted to the sexual misconduct through his agency, Lotus Roots, on August 25, 2022.^[1]

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.^[2]

Reconciliation with his father

His first son Masaaki, born in 2004, showed interest in becoming a Kabuki actor. As a result, Teruyuki tried again to meet with his aged father and succeeded.^[3]

At the same time, he decided to start his own career in Kabuki at 46,^[4] an age which is extremely unusual for an actor. The only other time someone was initiated into the Kabuki world as a fully grown adult 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.^[5]

In June 2012,^[6] it was announced^[7] at their father and cousin's Shūmei that he and his son would take the names of Ichikawa Chusha IX^[6] and Ichikawa Danko V.^[6]

Lineage

Born into a renowned Tokyo Kabuki acting family (known as Omodakaya or Kagawa family), Teruyuki is the ninth Kabuki actor to assume the name Ichikawa Chūsha, being known as Ichikawa Chusha IX (九代目 市川中車)

His great-great-grandfather, Ichikawa Danshirō II (二代目 市川段四郎) was a prominent Japanese kabuki actor and dancer who was the founder of the Omodakaya acting house and also the first kabuki actor from this acting house to bear the prestigious name Ichikawa Ennosuke (usually given to the head of the Omodakaya house), being known as Ichikawa Ennosuke I (初代 市川猿之助).

His great-grandfather, Ichikawa En'ō I (初代 市川猿翁) was one of the most important Kabuki actors and dancers of the Showa era, being responsible for creating numerous dance-dramas for the Kabuki theater, in addition to being the founder of Shunjūza, a well-known study group focused on Kabuki theater. He was the second Kabuki actor to bear the name Ichikawa Ennosuke, being known for most of his career as Ichikawa Ennosuke II (二代目 市川猿之助).

His great-great-uncle, Ichikawa Chūsha VIII (八代目 市川中車) was a tachiyaku actor whose career spanned from the end of the Meiji era to the middle of the Showa era and who, unlike the rest of his family, was a member of the Tachibanaya acting house and not the Omodokaya acting house.

His grandfather, Ichikawa Danshirō III (三代目 市川段四郎) was an actor and Kabuki dancer known for his dancing skills, although he did not achieve the same level of fame as his father (Ennosuke II/En'ō I) or grandson (Ennosuke III/En'ō II).

His father, Ichikawa Ennosuke III (三代目 市川猿之助) or Ichikawa En'ō II (二代目 市川猿翁), was one of the most celebrated and revolutionary Kabuki actors and dancers of the Showa era and the early Heisei era, as he was the creator of a new genre of Kabuki theater, known as Super Kabuki, in addition to being famous for perfecting several techniques that had been sidelined in more recent eras of Kabuki theater, known as keren and for having flown over the audience more than any other Kabuki actor (which earned him the nickname "The King of Chunori").

His uncle, Ichikawa Danshirō IV (四代目 市川段四郎) was a popular and outstanding tachiyaku and katakiyaku actor who was known for playing aragoto roles, being considered one of the leading aragotoshi of the late Showa and early Heisei eras and was the leading aragotoshi of the Omodakaya acting house until his retirement in 2015.

His cousin (son of the late Ichikawa Danshirō IV), Ichikawa Ennosuke IV (四代目 市川猿之助) is a popular Kabuki, film and television actor who is known for his prolific career in both Kabuki theater and in film and television, as well as being the fourth Kabuki actor of the Omodakaya house to be the bearer of the prestigious name Ichikawa Ennosuke.

His son, Ichikawa Danko V (五代目 市川團子) is a rising kabuki star who is the heir to the Omodakaya acting house and the future head of the Omodakaya house. It is said that he will become the head of the Omodakaya acting house in the future and take one of these four possible names:

• Ichikawa En'ō III (三代目 市川猿翁), in honor of his great-great-grandfather Ichikawa En'ō I (初代 市川猿翁) and his grandfather Ichikawa En'ō II (二代目 市川猿翁).
• Ichikawa Danshirō V (五代目 市川談四郎), in honor of his great-uncle, Ichikawa Danshirō IV (四代目 市川段四郎).
• Ichikawa Ennosuke V (五代目 市川猿之助), the most prestigious name in his family (and one of the most prestigious in Kabuki theater) in honor of his grandfather, Ichikawa Ennosuke III (三代目 市川猿之助)/Ichikawa En'ō II (二代目 市川猿翁) and his uncle, Ichikawa Ennosuke IV (四代目 市川猿之助).
• Ichikawa Chūsha X (十代目 市川中車), in honor of his father, Ichikawa Chusha IX (九代目 市川中車).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2000	Devils on the Doorstep	Kosaburo Hanaya	Chinese film
	Suri
2001	Man Walking on Snow	Ryoichi
2002	Doing Time
2003	Nuan	Yawa
2004	Akai Tsuki
	Warau Iemon
	Heaven's Bookstore	Takimoto
	Quill	Isamu Nii
2005	Bashing	Hotel manager
	Kita no zeronen
	The Milkwoman
	What the Snow Brings
2006	Sway	Minoru Hayakawa
	Memories of Tomorrow	Atsushi Kawamura
2007	Sukiyaki Western Django	Sheriff Hoanka
	Kisaragi	Ichigo Musume
2008	Tokyo!	Hikikomori	Lead role; "Shaking Tokyo" segment
	Tokyo Sonata	Ryūhei Sasaki	Lead role
	20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End	Yoshitsune
2009	20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope	Yoshitsune
	20th Century Boys 3: Redemption	Yoshitsune
	John Rabe	Prince Asaka Yasuhiko	German-Chinese-French film
	Snow Prince	Arima Masamitsu
	Mt. Tsurugidake
	Kaiji: Jinsei Gyakuten Game	Yukio Tonegawa
2011	Tormented	Kohei
	Ashita no Joe	Danpei Tange
	Kaiji 2: Jinsei Dakkai Game	Yukio Tonegawa
	Isoroku	Kagekiyo Munakata		[8]
2012	Key of Life	Kondo
	Rurouni Kenshin	Takeda Kanryū
2015	Mozu	Ryōta Ōsugi
2016	Creepy	Nishino
2019	Whistleblower	Makoto Kitagawa
2021	99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie	Atsuhiro Sada		[9]
2022	Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021	Gilmore (voice)		[10]
	Roleless	Miyamatsu	Lead role	[11]
2026	Sai: The Movie	That man	Lead role	[12]

Television drama

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1989	Kasuga no Tsubone	Kobayakawa Hideaki	Taiga drama	[13]
1989	Onihei Hankachō
1990	Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari	Masayuki Tōyama
2000	Aoi	Ukita Hideie	Taiga drama	[14]
2002	Toshiie and Matsu	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	Taiga drama	[15]
2006	Kōmyō ga Tsuji	Rokuheita	Taiga drama	[16]
	Taigan no Kanojo	Narahashi Fumimasa
	Unfair	Sato Kazuo
	Unfair the Special - Code Breaking	Sato Kazuo
	Yakusha Damashii!	Yanagisawa Mitsuharu
2007	Shimane no Bengoshi	Akita Ryoichi
	Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths	Mizuki Shigeru & Private (Second Class) Maruyama	Lead role; television film
2009	Mr. Brain	Tanbara Tomomi
2009–2010	Clouds Over the Hill	Masaoka Shiki		[17]
2010	Ryōmaden	Iwasaki Yataro	Taiga drama	[18]
2011	Diplomat Kosaku Kuroda	Takeshi Shimomura
2012	Penance
2013–2020	Hanzawa Naoki	Akira Ohwada	2 seasons
2016	Montage	Akira Shōji	Mini-series
	Yuriko-san no Ehon	Makoto Onodera	Lead role; television film
	The Sniffer	Komukai
2019	Everyone's Demoted	Tōru Mayama
2021	Japan Sinks: People of Hope	Yūichi Tadokoro
2022	Roppongi Class	Shigeru Nagaya
2025	Sai	That man	Lead role	[12]

Other television

Year	Title	Notes
2021–22	The Time	Friday host

Awards

• Teruyuki Kagawa was honored with the John Rabe Award^[19] in 2009 by the John Rabe Communication Centre in Heidelberg and the Austrian Peace Service.