Japanese kabuki actor found collapsed at home alongside parents

The satellite of Japanese kabuki, a classical signifier of Japanese theatre that combines highly stylised question and antithetic vocalisation, has been rocked aft the fashionable histrion Ennosuke Ichikawa was taken to infirmary and his parents recovered dead.

Ennosuke was recovered by his manager collapsed astatine his location successful Tokyo on with an evident termination enactment and taken to hospital.

His 75-year-old parent was recovered dormant successful a antithetic country successful the location alongside his 76-year-old father, Danshiro Ichikawa, besides a kabuki actor, who died successful infirmary aboriginal the aforesaid day, media reports said.

Ennosuke, 47, was discharged from infirmary the pursuing day.

An autopsy recovered that the parents had died aft taking an overdose of psychotropic drugs, according to police. Ennosuke told investigators the 3 had taken the drugs aft the household had “held talks”, the Asahi Shimbun paper said.

The deaths coincided with claims successful a play mag that Ennosuke, who besides appeared successful different theatre productions and successful TV dramas, had been progressive successful incidents of intersexual and powerfulness harassment targeting different actors and theatre employees.

Shochiku, a starring workplace and kabuki theatre absorption company, said it was “deeply saddened” by the deaths of Danshiro and his wife, according to Variety magazine.

The company, which besides acts arsenic Ennosuke’s absorption agency, apologised for the interest the alleged ungraded had caused kabuki fans, adding that it would not remark further portion it looked into the magazine’s claims. Ennosuke himself has not commented publicly.

Ennosuke Ichikawa archetypal appeared connected the kabuki signifier successful 1980 and became the fourth-generation subordinate of his household to follow the prestigious signifier sanction Ennosuke successful 2012.

He was besides the creator driving unit down “super-kabuki”, which combines accepted theatre with caller technology, and appeared successful a critically acclaimed super-kabuki accumulation based connected the fashionable manga One Piece.

Kabuki stories, performed by all-male actors dressed successful elaborate costumes and colourful constitution “masks”, woody with samurai rivalry, love, termination and much pedestrian accounts of metropolis life.