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Togo Igawa

Japanese. Actor, highly experienced pro.

Togo is an experienced and versatile Japanese actor and voice-over artist.

He trained at the Actor's Theatre (Haiyûza Yôseijo) and Tôhô Gakuen Drama College in Japan, and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1986 to 1988.
 
His films include Speed Racer, Memoirs of a Geisha, Revolver, The Last Samurai, Code 46, Noche de Reyes, Topsy-Turvy, The Tribe, and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. On TV he has appeared in The IT Crowd for Channel 4, Primeval for ITV, Torchwood for BBC, Murphy's Law, Karaoke, and Murder Most Horrid.
 
Togo has worked on many commercials for All Nippon Airways, Bravo, National Lottery, Chessington Zoo, Evening Standard, FIFA, Honda UK, Japan Airlines, The Ministry of 1 Affairs of Japan, Müller, National Lottery, Volvo and Suntory Whisky, and voiced many TV documentaries including those for Tomorrow's World, The Late Show, Heart of the Matter and Timewatch.
 
His very extensive corporate pieces includes those for Adidas, Airbus, American Airlines, Birmingham City Council, British Aerospace, Central Office of Information, Intercontinental Hotel, Land Rover, Manchester Airport, National Heritage, Nissan UK, Rolls Royce, Subaru, TNT, Visa, Volvo, Warner Brothers, Waitrose and numerous others. CD-ROMs/Games include Total War, Ninja, Colin McRae Rally, Star Wars, Tinky Tank, Trickstyle, Urban Chaos, Solid Designer and Shogun.
 
Togo’s tone lends itself to documentaries and his work in this field has included BBC: Tomorrow's World, The Late Show, Kyoto My Mother's Place; Channel 4: Japan's War, Secret Asia - Nuclear Ginza. CH5: The Bridge on the River Kwai: Revealed; NBC: Korean Comfort Women in War, and many others
 
His educational work includes Accelerating Learning Systems, BBC Japanese Course, Linguaphone, Longman and Oxford University Press. His exhibition/Tourism work includes Beatrix Potter, the Crystal Maze, Epsom Racecourse, the National Portrait Gallery, The Tower of London and the Van Gogh Museum and he also has experience in scriptwriting and translation.