Kinya Aikawa

, born , was a Japanese actor, tarento and voice actor. He was born in Tokyo and died in 2015 of lung cancer.

Filmography

Acting roles

Films

• Torakku Yarō series (1975-1979)
• The Battle of Port Arthur (1980)
• Edo Porn (1981)

Television

• Naruhodo! The World (host, 1981–1996)

Voice roles

Television

• Space Ace (1965), Yadokari
• ' (1966 special), Sagojo
• ' (1966), Officer Chibisu, Roba
• GokÅ« no Daibōken (1967), Sagojo
• Speed Racer (1967), Ken'ichi Mifune / Racer X
• The Monster Kid (1968)
• Hakushon Daimaou (1969), Grandfather "And then"
• Inakappe Taishō (1970), Nyanko-sensei
• Vampiyan Kids (2001), Papa

Films

• ' (1996), Kame Sennin

• Tōkyō Megure Keishi, a 25-episode TV Series aired from April 14 to May 29, 1978, on TV Asahi. Although the series is based on a French series of Maigret mystery books by Georges Simenon and Aikawa is now primarily known as a voice actor, it is not a dubbed version of the French TV Series based on the books. Aikawa stars in person as Megure, a Japanese-born equivalent to the French Maigret, reinvented in a Japanese setting.