Teruyuki Kagawa

Teruyuki Kagawa 香川 照之 Kagawa Teruyuki born December 7 1965 is a Japanese actor kabuki actor and boxing commentator Born in 1965 his parents are the kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III and the cinema actress Yuko Hama His grandmother is the film actress Sanae Takasugi In the Kabuki world it is usual for the son of an actor to follow the fathers footsteps since very early ages but his parents divorced in 1968 and his mother was given the custody of him After that event he never saw his father again and his mother refused to give him any training on the Kabuki art and he grew believing that it was something that must not be watched However he tried several times to meet his biological father When he was 20 he went to one of his performances and asked if he could see him stating that he was Ennosukes son but when his fathers assistants reported to him the situation he refused stating that he didnt have any son He graduated in social psychology at the University of Tokyo and decided to start a career in cinema He has twice been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award at the Japanese Academy Awards once for Warau Iemon and once for Kita no zeronen He won the award for best supporting actor at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Mt Tsurugidake