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The Hedgehog opens on Friday 2 September at the Curzon Mayfair at 6.15pm with a personal appearance by distinguished Japanese actor TOGO IGAWA Igawa trained in Japan at The Hiyuza Theatre Company Drama School, and the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music. In 1968 he joined the Theatre Centre 68 (precursor of the Black Tent Theatre), and went on to tour throughout Japan in more than 120 cities. In 1983 he moved to England. In 1986, during the opening season of the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon Avon, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as its first Japanese actor. Since then, he has appeared extensively on stage, film, television and radio. In 2006, he formed the British-Japanese "Ichiza Theatre Company?. He lives in north Oxfordshire with his English wife, Adrienne Baba, a potter. His films include Memoirs of a Geisha by Rob Marshall; Revolver by Guy Ritchie; The Last Samurai by Edward Zwick; Topsy-Turvy by Mike Leigh and Eyes Wide Shut by Stanley Kubrick. Igawa will be introduced Ian Haydn-Smith, author, film critic and
editor of the International Film Guide, who will conduct a question
and answer and session with the actor after the screening.
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