
From Up on Poppy Hill
An animated film by director Goró Miyazaki about two high school students fighting to preserve a historic building in 1963 Yokohama.
Teruyuki Kagawa (born December 7, 1965, in Tokyo) is a Japanese screen actor and kabuki performer who holds the hereditary stage name Ichikawa Chūsha IX. He is the son of kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III and film actress Yūko Hama, and the grandson of actress Sanae Takasugi. He became widely known for portraying cold-blooded villains in television dramas such as Hanzawa Naoki and in films including Tokyo Sonata and Shin Godzilla, and formally joined the kabuki world in 2011.
In August 2022, Kagawa admitted through his agency and publicly apologized for harassment of a woman in 2019, subsequently stepping down from hosting the morning program of TBS television.
In 2025, after a three-year hiatus, he returned to television dramas with the lead role of a mysterious man in the series Sai.
On February 20, 2026, the film Sai: 劇場版 (Disaster) premiered, in which he plays the lead role.
His casting as Goha Hamazaki in the game Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties sparked boycott calls among fans due to the 2022 scandal.
In the summer of 2026 (July 3 - August 23), he performs in the Super Kabuki theatrical adaptation of Princess Mononoke alongside his son Ichikawa Danko.