Kinya Aikawa

Kinya Aikawa (愛川 欽也, Aikawa Kin'ya, June 25, 1934 – April 15, 2015) as Toshiaki Ikawa (井川 敏明, Ikawa Toshiaki) was a Japanese actor, tarento and voice actor. He was born in Tokyo^[1] and died in 2015 of lung cancer.^[2]

Kinya Aikawa
愛川 欽也
Born	Toshiaki Ikawa (井川 敏明) (1934-06-25)June 25, 1934 Sugamo, Tokyo, Japan
Died	April 15, 2015(2015-04-15) (aged 80) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Actor, tarento, voice actor
Spouse	Midori Utsumi (m. 1978; his death 2015)

Filmography

Acting roles

Films

• Torakku Yarō series (1975-1979)
• The Battle of Port Arthur (1980)
• Edo Porn (1981)

Television

• Naruhodo! The World (host, 1981–1996)

Voice roles

Television

• Space Ace (1965), Yadokari
• Son-goku is Coming: Chapter of Ko-fu Dai-o (1966 special), Sagojo
• Jump Out! Batchiri [ja] (1966), Officer Chibisu, Roba
• Gokū no Daibōken (1967), Sagojo
• Speed Racer (1967), Ken'ichi Mifune / Racer X
• The Monster Kid (1968)
• Hakushon Daimaou (1969), Grandfather "And then"
• Inakappe Taishō (1970), Nyanko-sensei
• Vampiyan Kids (2001), Papa^[3]

Films

• Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996), Kame Sennin

Dubbing

• Jack Lemmon
  • The Apartment (C.C. Baxter)
  • The Front Page (Hildy Johnson)
  • Good Neighbor Sam (Sam Bissell)
  • The Great Race (Professor Fate / Prince Hapnick)
  • How to Murder Your Wife (Stanley Ford)
  • Irma la Douce (Nestor Patou / Lord X)
  • Mister Roberts (Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver)
  • Some Like It Hot (Jerry - 'Daphne')^[4]
  • Under the Yum Yum Tree (Hogan)
  • The Wackiest Ship in the Army (Lt. Rip Crandall)
• Dr. Strangelove (1971 TV Asahi edition) (Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers))^[5]
• Singin' in the Rain (Donald Lockwood (Gene Kelly))^[6]
• Strangers on a Train (Guy Haines (Farley Granger))

Classic roles

• Tōkyō Megure Keishi, a 25-episode TV Series aired from April 14 to May 29, 1978, on TV Asahi. Although the series is based on a French series of Maigret mystery books by Georges Simenon and Aikawa is now primarily known as a voice actor, it is not a dubbed version of the French TV Series based on the books. Aikawa stars in person as Megure, a Japanese-born equivalent to the French Maigret, reinvented in a Japanese setting.^[7][8]

References

1. "愛川欽也さん死去". Sponichi Annex (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
2. III, Harris M. Lentz (May 3, 2016). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2015. McFarland. ISBN 9781476625539 – via Google Books.
3. "The Official Production I.G English Website". Production I.G. Archived from the original on February 4, 2005. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
4. "お熱いのがお好き（１９５９）". Star Channel. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
5. "博士の異常な愛情 または私は如何にして心配するのを止めて水爆を愛するようになったかとは (ドクターストレンジラブとは) [単語記事]". ニコニコ大百科 (in Japanese). 2013-04-04. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
6. "雨に唄えば". The Cinema. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
7. "Claude Gauteur: Simenon by Simenon". www.trussel.com.
8. "Tôkyo Megure Keishi" mentioned on Kinya Aikawa's Japanese wiki page (Japanese)

External links

• Kinya Aikawa at Anime News Network's encyclopedia