Considered one of Japan’s best-known kabuki actors Ennosuke Ichikawa has been arrested on suspicion of helping his mom’s suicide, in accordance with native media. Each of his mother and father had been discovered unconscious at his residence final month.
In keeping with native broadcaster NHK, Ichikawa has been arrested. A famend star of the classical artwork kind, Ichikawa has carried out in London, Paris and Amsterdam. Rescue staff discovered his 76-year-old father – additionally a kabuki actor – and his 75-year-old mom unconscious at his residence in Tokyo, in Might. Each of them had been confirmed to be useless later from an overdose.
47-year-old Ichikawa was present in a cabinet on the home and brought to hospital. One being questioned by the police, he mentioned the household “mentioned dying and being reborn” and that his mother and father had taken sleeping capsules. He admitted to the fees and mentioned, he was “going to observe my mother and father and kill” himself. Ichikawa, who had additionally written a suicide word, had prescribed the sleeping capsules. He reportedly tried suicide together with his mother and father and was arrested because the police feared that he would possibly tamper with the proof or try and run away,
The circumstances across the deaths are being investigated. Ichikawa, whose actual identify is Takahiko Kinoshi, made his kabuki debut in 1980.
