Biography
Togo Igawa, born in Tokyo on 26 September 1946, is a Japanese actor who works primarily in British films and television. In recent years he has had roles in major motion pictures such as Revolver, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Samurai, and Sunshine. He has also appeared in the Israeli movie A Matter of Size and the Thomas and Friends movies Hero of the Rails and Misty Island Rescue in 2009 and 2010. Additionally Igawa provides the voice for the character Professor Moshimo on the cartoon series ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Tetris
2023
as Hiroshi Yamauchi
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a danger...

National Theatre Live: After Life
2021
as Ichiro Watanabe
A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged b...

The Host
2020
as Lau Hoi Ho
A chance opportunity arises for Robert Atkinson, a London banker who risks his bank's money to leave the mundane behind and start a new life. To take ...

The Gentlemen
2020
as Wang Yong
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the busine...

Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019
as Mystic Mole (voice)
The story of a young Mole and his adventure to pick a rose from the Queen's Garden, not knowing that this simple act will change, not only his life, b...

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
as Mr. Tatyama
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each ...

Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
as Resistance Bridge Officer
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resist...

The Last Recipe
2017
as Shotaro Kamata
A famous chef who is tasked with tracking down a 70-year-old missing recipe.

Thomas & Friends: Tinsel on the Tracks
2016
as Hiro (voice)
Thomas & Friends Christmas movie, 2016.

Breaking the Bank
2016
as Nakamura
With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompe...

The Confessions
2016
as Ministro giapponese
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that...

The Real Miyagi
2015
as Self
The life of Fumio Demura, the greatest karate master of a generation.

Everly
2014
as The Sadist
After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of he...

Hector and the Search for Happiness
2014
as Old Monk
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he ha...

Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist The Movie
2014
as Goutetsu / Goma
If one man changes his path, will he be able to change his destiny...or will he only delay the inevitable? Ryu and Ken are two traditional warriors w...

Thomas & Friends: Spills & Thrills
2014
as Hiro (voice)
The Island of Sodor is always bustling with activity, yet when the engines try to be "Really Useful" they often find themselves in some messy muddles....

Kano
2014
as Coach Sato
A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

47 Ronin
2013
as Tengu Lord
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and ...

Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway
2013
as Hiro (voice)
Thomas discovers mysteries of the past and must help a new friend, save a ruined castle and may even find some treasure when Sir Robert Norramby comes...

Tasting Menu
2013
as Ishao
As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago (before s...

Thomas & Friends: Sticky Situations
2012
as Hiro (voice)
The engines on the Island of Sodor find themselves in some sticky and slippery situations! Thomas and Butch are stuck in a bind when they don't fully ...

Thomas & Friends: Schoolhouse Delivery
2012
as Hiro (voice)
School's in session and there are important lessons to be learned on the Island of Sodor. Diesel gets a hero's welcome when he makes a Really Useful d...

Gambit
2012
as Takagawa
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and...

Thomas and Friends: Up Up & Away!
2012
as Hiro (voice)
Thomas and Percy have a special Special as they try and try again to bring balloons to Mr. Bubbles' Big Balloon Show. At the Children's Steam Fair, Em...

Thomas & Friends: Merry Christmas, Thomas!
2011
as Hiro (voice) (archive footage)
Thomas lights up the tracks in a magical Christmas collection! Watch as your favourite engines prepare for a festive celebration. Charlie discovers ho...

Johnny English Reborn
2011
as Ting Wang
The most prominent heads of state in the world begin gathering for a conference that could have a major impact on global politics. When MI-7 receives ...

Thomas & Friends: Wobbly Wheels & Whistles
2011
as Hiro (voice)
Travel along with Thomas for a wonderfully wobbly and wheel-spinning good time! The No. 1 blue engine has bridges to cross and tracks to uncover in th...

Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue
2010
as Hiro (voice)
The engines are hard at work to build the new Sodor Search and Rescue Center. When Thomas helps a friend in need, he is rewarded with an exciting trip...

Ninja
2009
as Sensei
A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored che...

Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails - The Movie
2009
as Hiro (voice)
One summer, Thomas comes across an old abandoned engine called Hiro. Desperately in need of repair, Hiro faces the Smelters Yard, so Thomas and his fr...

The Hedgehog
2009
as Kakuro Ozu
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and phi...

A Matter of Size
2009
as Kitano
Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to. When Herzl (155 kilos), the main pro...

Night Train
2009
as Yamashita
Two Passengers and the conductor discover that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, ...

John Rabe
2009
as Fukuda Tokuyasu
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Speed Racer
2008
as Mr. Togokahn
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the poli...

Waiter
2006
as Makino
Edgar works as a waiter in 'Het Westen', a restaurant. He is married and has a lover. His neighbors terrorize him with loud music and garbage. One day...

Irish Jam
2006
as Mr. Suzuki
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest w...

Memoirs of a Geisha
2005
as Tanaka
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Revolver
2005
as Fred
Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner ...

Stratosphere Girl
2004
as Oshima
Angela is a French art student living in Germany who loves to draw comics and creates elaborate tales drawn in a soft and romantic style. One night, A...

The Last Samurai
2003
as General Hasegawa
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th...

Code 46
2003
as Driver
In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passport...

Noche de reyes
2001
as Sr. Okamura
Miguel Bardem's Christmas comedy Noche de Reyes (Twelfth Night) intercuts a variety of story lines. Ernesto Cuspineda (Joaquin Climent) is a businessm...

The Parole Officer
2001
as Japanese Businessman
A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law ab...

The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
2000
as Japanese scuba diver
The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe w...

Topsy-Turvy
1999
as First Kabuki Actor
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th...

Eyes Wide Shut
1999
as Japanese Man #1
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He ...

Felice… Felice…
1998
as Kurosu
Tragic love story about the photographer and explorer Felice Beato who travelled back to Japan in 1895 to seek his former wife O-Kiku. On the way he d...

Incognito
1997
as Thomas Agachi
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out t...
National Achievement Day
1996
as Togo
On National Achievement Day, the lives of a detective, a shopkeeper, a garage attendant, a barmaid, a dog and two mice interconnect. Their conversatio...

Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
1995
as Japanese Waiter
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

A Business Affair
1994
as Japanese Golfer
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when...

Power and Lovers
1994
as Iki
Two brothers start to bicker and battle when Nick, an aggressive businessman, finds himself thwarted by a group of scientists, headed by his brother T...

How to speak Japanese
1993
as Isono
Yamada ga machi ni yatte kita (aka How to Speak Japanese)

Just Like a Woman
1992
as Akira Watanabe
Gerald is a smart, young, high-flying American banker. Everything is great until his wife finds another woman's underwear in their bedroom and subsequ...

Wilt
1989
as Japanese Visitor
Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an infla...

Defrosting the Fridge
1989
as Mr. Hiroto
The Lowesthorpe Trawlers an English, American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and persuade local firm Salty Sea Fish Foods to be thei...

Almost Transparent Blue
1979
as Okinawa
In the mid-1970s, a small group of friends are living in a Japanese town near an American air force base, their lives revolve around sex, drugs and ro...
King of Iron Fist Tournament
N/A
as Jinpachi Mishima
Heihachi Mishima, head of the powerful Mishima Zaibatsu and respected martial artist, announces The King of Iron Fist Tournament in which contestants ...

Welcome to Paradise
N/A
as Junichi
A woman finds herself in a strange, magical carnival with no memory of anything but her own name. Time seems to be of the essence, can she find her wa...