Personal Info
Birth date
1962-03-18 (63 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
-
Also known as
토요카와 에츠시
丰川悦司
Etsushi Toyokawa
Biography
Etsushi Toyokawa (Japanese: 豊川 悦司 Hepburn: Toyokawa Etsushi, born March 18, 1962) is a Japanese actor.
Filmography
Tokyo Swindlers
6.8
Overview:
A team of swindlers gets wind of prime real estate worth 10 billion yen and will stop at nothing to pull off their most ambitious scam yet.Scum of Lawyers
5.7
Overview:
Bengoshi no Kuzu is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hideo Iura about Takeda Masami, a new lawyer and fellow lawyer Kuzu Motohito, who Takeda is teamed up with, and how they deal with different court cases. It was serialized in Big Comic Original. Bengoshi no Kuzu received the Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general category in 2007. The manga was adapted into a 12-episode TV drama, which was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System between April 13, 2006 and June 29, 2006.Beautiful Rain
7
Overview:
A young daughter (Mana Ashida) supports her father (Etsushi Toyokawa) who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.The Fire Still Burns
NYR
Overview:
This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late Heian era. They established their domain in Touhoku area (North-east area of Japan), independent from the rule of Minamoto clan.The End of the World
8
Overview:
Maria is in need of money. Because her day-time job doesn't pay enough, she works at night at a cabaret. She needs the money so that she can pay for her sister, Nana's eyes operation. When both Maria and Nana were younger, Maria burned down the home, causing her sister's blindness and killing their father (mother survived.) Shiro is a famous concert pianist. However, he isn't happy with his marriage or his life in general. Maria and Shiro are united through a traffic accident, causing Shiro to be hospitalized. Faking amnesia and his identity, he stays at Maria's place and eventually starts to work at the cabaret as a piano player. As you will find out later on, life was not meant for Maria and Shiro to find one another.Date My Daughter!
7.8
Overview:
Aoi Minase is in her 40's. She works as a popular writer of romance novels. She is also a single mother, who raised her daughter alone. Her daughter is now 20-years-old. Due to Aoi Minase's success as a romance novelist, Aoi lives with her daughter in an upscale high-rise apartment building. Aoi is worried about her daughter. Her daughter doesn't have a boyfriend. Aoi Minase believes this is because her daughter is an otaku, who enjoys manga and cosplay. Her daughter does want to fall in love.Say You Love Me
7
Overview:
This delicate love story transcends the spoken word as it depicts the lives of an aspiring young actress and a painter who lost his sense of hearing during childhood. As their relationship develops, the audience learns the true power of sign language and experiences the couple’s growth first-hand through the progression of their visual communication.Et Alors
NYR
Overview:
Based on book by Watanabe Junichi (渡辺淳一). Takafumi Kurusu, who is a qualified doctor, has succeeded his late father and is the director of a nursing home in central Tokyo...Arechi no Koi
NYR
Overview:
In 1947, a year heavily tinged by the scars of war, Kitazawa Taro, Mitamura Kiichi, Arikawa Nobuo and other fellow poets who would play a central role in post-war Japan’s modern poetry movement gathered for the launch of the poetry magazine ‘Arechi’. 28 years later in 1975, a 53-year-old Kitazawa works at a newspaper’s proofreading department as he continues scrape by composing poetry. Although he is not prolific as a poet, he cherishes ordinary happiness every day surrounded by his wife Haruko and their daughter Yuko and son Sho. But a big turning point comes for Kitazawa one day. He develops frequent contact with Akiko, the wife of his good friend Mitamura. Falling in love with her, he abandons his job and leaves his wife Haruko and two children behind. As he starts to live with Akiko who has also left home, he recovers an unprecedented passion and “words”. Each of them start to live the life of the “wasteland”. --JDramas WeblogThis Love to Live
NYR
Overview:
This story focuses on a married couple and their search for happiness as a family. Akemi becomes pregnant, Seiichi eventually divorces his wife and marries her. Despite their passionate romance before marriage, now Seiichi does not look at or think of Akemi as "a woman". Part of Seiichi's reason has to do with the fact that he again goes out with his former wife Ritsuko, cheating on Akemi. When Akemi notices what Seiichi is thinking, she meets Yusaku Shirube, a police detective. Akemi and Yusaku eventually have a love affair that night, comforting their wounded hearts. This one-night love affair is to be a start for perfect love.NIGHT HEAD
6
Overview:
It is said that the mysterious "power" of human beings is hidden in 70 percent of the brain called Night Head. Two brothers have been incarcerated in a secure scientific facility for the past fifteen years due to their paranormal abilities.Love Story
7
Overview:
Sudo Misaki, an editor with misgivings about her professional and private life, is assigned to Nagase Koh, a popular romance novelist who has been in a two-year slump. Despite his profession, Nagase has never experienced true romance and becomes quite uncomfortable at the prospect. However, these two find themselves curiously drawn to each other and begin writing their own love story.Midway
7.117
Overview:
The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.Love Letter
7.8
Overview:
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii.NO ACTIVITY
4.3
Overview:
Tokita Shingo is a detective who gives up on a successful detective career. He teams up with up with rookie detective Shiina Asobu. They work on an undercover investigation into a drug case and soon find themselves in an unexpected situation.Blue Bird
5.3
Overview:
A tale of tragic love between Yoshimori, a station employee at a quiet, rural station, and Kahori, the wife of the heir to a family fortune. When Kahori's husband uncovers their affair, the star-crossed lovers try to flee with Kahori's daughter. Their search for safety and happiness takes them across the nation, from Hokkaido to Kagoshima. Filmed on location, this is an unforgettable story of romance told against the backdrop of some of the most beautiful scenery in Japan. --TBSBoiling Point
6.89
Overview:
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.The Great Yokai War
6.3
Overview:
A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great war of yōkai (a class of mythological creatures), where he meets a group of friendly yōkai who become his companions through his journey. Now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the yōkai from oppression. The yōkai originate in Japanese folklore and range from the cute and silly to the disturbing.Earwig and the Witch
5.898
Overview:
A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch.Japan Sinks
5.5
Overview:
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As further disasters follow, politicians plead with other countries to take refugees, while scientists struggle to save Japan itself.Kingdom 2: Far and Away
7.2
Overview:
It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.Sword of Desperation
6.8
Overview:
A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.Acting
2024Tokyo Swindlers (7 Episodes) as 山中 ハリソン
2024Lily, I am crying as Self
2023Revolver LILY as Kinya Hosomi
2023Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part 2 as Baian Fujieda
2023Baian the Assassin, M.D.: Part1 as Baian Fujieda
2023And so I'm at a Loss as Unknown
20222 Women as Atsuro Shiraki
2022Kingdom 2: Far and Away as Hyou Kou (Biao Gong)
2022My Brother, The Android And Me as Unknown
2021NO ACTIVITY (12 Episodes) as Tokita Shingo
2021Every Trick In The Book as Kenjiro Kurata
2021One Summer Story as Minami's biological father
2021Ito as Koichi Soma
2021Earwig and the Witch as The Mandrake (voice)
2021Date My Daughter! (10 Episodes) as Ichinose Fuuga
2020Toubousha (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2020I Never Shot Anyone as Takeshi Shu
2020Last Letter as Ato
2019Midway as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
2019Paradise Next as Shima
2019Samurai Marathon as Suketora Ioki
2018Punk Samurai Slash Down as Tatewaki Naito
2018Nomitori Samurai as Seibee
2018Laplace's Witch as Saisei Amakasu
2017March Goes out Like a Lamb as Masachika Koda
2017The Blue Hearts as (segment “1001 Violins”)
2017March Comes In Like a Lion as Sachika Koda
2016Black Widow Business as Toru Kashiwagi
2016Arechi no Koi (5 Episodes) as Unknown
2015Joe, Tomorrow as Narration (voice)
2015Her Granddaughter as Jun Kaieda
2014Climbing to Spring as Goro Tada
2014Judge! as Ichiro Otaki
2013The Human Trust as CIA agent Endo
2013Platinum Data as Reiji Asama
2012Beautiful Rain (12 Episodes) as Kinoshita Keisuke
2010Postcard as Keita Matsuyama
2010Sword of Desperation as Kanemi Sanzaemon
2009A Good Husband as Shunsuke Kitami
200920th Century Boys 3: Redemption as Otcho
200920th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope as Otcho
2008Teacher and Three Children as Yoshihito Yamazaki
200820th Century Boys: Beginning of the End as Otcho
200810 Promises to My Dog as Yuichi Saito
2007Tsubaki Sanjuro as Hanbei Muroto
2007The Kiss as Akimi Sakaguchi
2007The Investigation Game as Fumihiko Makishima
2007South Bound as Ichiro Uehara
2007Awakening as Noda
2007Love Never to End as Kikuji Murao
2006Hula Girls as Yojiro Tanikawa
2006Japan Sinks as Tadogoro Yusuke
2006It's Only Talk as Shoichi
2006Scum of Lawyers (12 Episodes) as Motohito Kuzu
2005Dead Run as Father Yuichi
2005Until the Lights Come Back as Shinichi Kido
2005Loft as Makoto Yoshioka
2005Female Teacher: Under a Wet Piano as Unknown
2005The Great Yokai War as Katō Yasunori
2005Beat Kids as Unknown
2005The Man Behind the Scissors as Yasunaga
2005Bluestockings as Yuichiro
2005Year One in the North as Ashirika
2004Tange Sazen : The Jar Worth One Million Ryo as Unknown
2004The Lakeside Murder Case as Masaru Tsukumi
2003Et Alors (5 Episodes) as Unknown
2003Ushinawareta Yakusoku (9 Episodes) as Koji Shinohara
2003Moon Child as Luka
2002The Ripples as Tamamizu Tatsuo
2002Inochi as Yutaka Higashi
2002Dog Star as Shiro
2001Love Story (11 Episodes) as Unknown
200117年目のパパへ (1 Episode) as Unknown
2000Another Battle as Kadoya Kaneo
2000Face as Hiroyuki Nakagami
1999Sennen-Tabito as Unknown
1999Dangerous Relationship (11 Episodes) as Shinji Uozomi
1999同窓会へようこそ～遅すぎた夏の帰郷～ (1 Episode) as Unknown
1998The Goofball as Unknown
1997Blue Bird (12 Episodes) as Shibata Yoshimori
1997Lie Lie Lie as Makoto Aikawa
1997Misty as Tajomaru
1997An Angel with Many Scars as Unknown
1996The 8-Tomb Village as Kousuke Kindaichi
1996The Man with Two Hearts as Unknown
1995Say You Love Me (12 Episodes) as Koji Sakaki
1995Phantom of the Toilet as Yuji Sakamoto
1995No Way Back as Yuji Kobayashi
1995Love Letter as Shigeru Akiba
1994Night Head as Naoto Kirihara
1994Ghost Pub as Sugimoto Nobuya
1994Undo as Yukio
1994Angel Dust as Tomoo
1994This Love to Live (1 Episode) as Uekusa Seiichi
1994The End of the World (12 Episodes) as Kamiya Seiji
1994Lunatic Love as Unknown
1993Free and Easy 6 as Unknown
1993Youth Peony Lantern as Unknown
1993The Fire Still Burns (35 Episodes) as Kiyohara no Iehira
1992Dialogue as Unknown
1992Twinkle as Mutsuki Kishida
1992NIGHT HEAD (21 Episodes) as 霧原直人
1992Kachô Shima Kôsaku as Unknown
1992Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown as Unknown
1992Mystery Experience Zone: Really Scary Stories: Ghost Photos sent to you & Ghost Detectives as Unknown
1991The Gentle 12 as Juror #11
1991女教師・濡れたピアノの下で as Ryu Goda
1991Shabondama (11 Episodes) as Unknown
1991The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses as Unknown
1991Black Princess 2 Flame Target as Unknown
1990Boiling Point as Okinawa-Rengou Kumichou
Writing
1990Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (5 Episodes) ... Writer
Directing
1990Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (5 Episodes) ... Director