Teruyuki Kagawa


Teruyuki Kagawa is a Japanese actor, kabuki actor, and boxing commentator. Unlike most other Kabuki actors in his family 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 of the current generation of Kabuki actors.
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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.

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.

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.
At the same time, he decided to start his own career in Kabuki at 46, 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.
In June 2012, it was announced at their father and cousin's Shūmei that he and his son would take the names of Ichikawa Chusha IX and Ichikawa Danko V.

Lineage

Born into a renowned Tokyo Kabuki acting family, Teruyuki is the ninth Kabuki actor to assume the name Ichikawa Chūsha, being known as Ichikawa Chusha IX
His great-great-grandfather, Ichikawa Danshirō II 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, being known as Ichikawa Ennosuke I.
His great-grandfather, Ichikawa En'ō I 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.
His great-great-uncle, Ichikawa Chūsha VIII 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 was an actor and Kabuki dancer known for his dancing skills, although he did not achieve the same level of fame as his father or grandson.
His father, Ichikawa Ennosuke III or Ichikawa En'ō II, 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.
His uncle, Ichikawa Danshirō IV 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, Ichikawa Ennosuke IV 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 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, in honor of his great-great-grandfather Ichikawa En'ō I and his grandfather Ichikawa En'ō II.Ichikawa Danshirō V, in honor of his great-uncle, Ichikawa Danshirō IV.Ichikawa Ennosuke V, the most prestigious name in his family in honor of his grandfather, Ichikawa Ennosuke III /Ichikawa En'ō II and his uncle, Ichikawa Ennosuke IV.Ichikawa Chūsha X, in honor of his father, Ichikawa Chusha IX.

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