Kinya Aikawa

Kinya Aikawa
Born	June 25, 1934 Sugamo, Tokyo, Japan
Died	April 15, 2015 (aged 80) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor, Tarento, Voice Actor
Spouse(s)	Midori Utsumi (m. 1978; his death 2015)

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]

Filmography

Acting roles

Films

• Torakku Yarō series (1975-1979)

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 (1966), Officer Chibisu, Roba
• Goku no Daiboken (1967), Sagojo
• Speed Racer (1967), Masked Racer / Ken'ichi Mifune
• Kaibutsu-kun (1968)
• Hakushon Daimaou (1969), Grandfather "And then"
• Inakappe Taisho (1970), Nyanko-sensei
• Vampiyan Kids (2001), Papa^[2]

Films

• Dragon Ball: The Path to Power (1996), Kame Sen'nin

Dubbing

• Jack Lemmon
  • The Apartment (C.C. Baxter)
  • The Front Page (Hildy Johnson)
  • Good Neighbor Sam (Sam Bissel)
  • The Great Race (Professor Fate / Prince Hapnic)
  • 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')
  • Under the Yum Yum Tree (Hogan)
  • The Wackiest Ship In the Army (Lt. Rip Crandall)
• Farley Granger
  • Strangers on a Train (Guy Haines)

Classic roles

• Tōkyō Megure Keishi, a 25-episode TV Series aired from April 14 to May 29, 1978 on Asahi TV. 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.^[3][4]

References

1. "愛川欽也さん死去". Sponichi Annex (in Japanese). Sports Nippon Newspapers. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
2. "The Official Production I.G English Website". Production I.G. Archived from the original on February 4, 2005. Retrieved February 7, 2010.
3. A picture of Kinya Aikawa as Maigret/Megure from La Revue du Cinéma n° 454, November, 1989. Article retrieved on Trussel.com
4. "Tôkyo Megure Keishi" mentioned on Kinya Aikawa's Japanese wiki page (Japanese)

External links

• Kinya Aikawa at Anime News Network's encyclopedia