Kinya Aikawa
Native name愛川 欽也
Birth nameToshiaki Ikawa (井川 敏明)
Birth dateJune 25, 1934
Birth placeSugamo, Tokyo, Japan
Death dateApril 15, 2015 (aged 80)
Death placeTokyo, Japan
OccupationActor, tarento, voice actor
SpouseMidori Utsumi (m. 1978)

Kinya Aikawa (愛川 欽也, Aikawa Kin'ya, June 25, 1934 – April 15, 2015), born 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]

Filmography

Acting roles

Films

Television

Voice roles

Television

Films

Dubbing

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" (in Japanese). Sponichi Annex. Sports Nippon Newspapers. 17 April 2015. Archived 3 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 17 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 February 4, 2005 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
  4. ^ "お熱いのがお好き(1959)[吹]". 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]" (in Japanese). ニコニコ大百科. 2013-04-04. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  6. ^ "雨に唄えば". The Cinema. Archived from the original on February 11, 2023. Retrieved February 10, 2023.
  7. ^ "Claude Gauteur: Simenon by Simenon". www.trussel.com. Archived 2011-05-11 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
  8. ^ "Tôkyo Megure Keishi" mentioned on Kinya Aikawa's Japanese wiki page (Japanese)