Kinya Aikawa Explained

Native Name:	愛川 欽也
Birth Name:	Toshiaki Ikawa (井川 敏明)
Birth Date:	25 June 1934
Birth Place:	Sugamo, Tokyo, Japan
Death Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Occupation:	Actor, tarento, voice actor
Spouse:	Midori Utsumi (m. 1978; his death 2015)

as 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

• 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
• (1966 special), Sagojo
• (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

• (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. Web site: 愛川欽也さん死去. Sponichi Annex. Sports Nippon Newspapers. 16 April 2015. Japanese.
2. Book: III, Harris M. Lentz. Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2015. May 3, 2016. McFarland. 9781476625539. Google Books.
3. Web site: The Official Production I.G English Website . Production I.G . https://web.archive.org/web/20050204061531/http://productionig.com/project.php?id=21&section=3 . February 4, 2005 . February 7, 2010.
4. Web site: お熱いのがお好き（１９５９）. October 2, 2019. Star Channel.
5. Web site: 2013-04-04 . 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] ]. 2023-08-25 . ニコニコ大百科 . ja.
6. Web site: 雨に唄えば. February 10, 2023. The Cinema.
7. Web site: Claude Gauteur: Simenon by Simenon. www.trussel.com.
8. [:ja:愛川欽也|"Tôkyo Megure Keishi" mentioned on Kinya Aikawa's Japanese wiki page (Japanese)]