Togo Igawa

, known professionally as , is a Japanese actor based in England. He works primarily in British theatre, films and television. He was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2012 for his role in Total War: Shogun 2.

Career Igawa founded Black Tent Theatre, a theatrical group in Japan before moving to the UK and becoming the first Japanese member of The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986.

He went on to have 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. 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. In 2019 he joined the cast of BBC series Giri/Haji.

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. He was nominated for a BAFTA for his performance in Total War: Shogun 2.

In 2023 Igawa played real life businessman Hiroshi Yamauchi in Tetris.

In 2024, he will next be seen starring in Kyoto, a new play on the West End theatre, reuniting with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Personal life Igawa lives in England with his wife Adrienne Baba.

He studied at The Haiyuza Theatre Company Acting School and Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music.

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 Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails (2009) as Hiro (voice) A Matter of Size (2009) as Kitano Ninja (2009) as Sensei Takeda Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue (2010) as Hiro (voice) Johnny English Reborn (2011) as Ting Wang Gambit (2012) as Takagawa Thomas & Friends: 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) as Lau Hoi Ho 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 Murder Most Horrid (1991) as Japanese tourist 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 Giri/Haji (2019) as Hotaka 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 Rise of the Rōnin (2024) as Bladesmith's Counterpart