Saddened to hear of Akihiro Miwa’s passing. most in the west knew Miwa for voice acting in Ghibli films like Mononoke and Howl, but many will also remember them as a stage & screen actor, a singer/songwriter and a former lover of Yukio Mishima who famously read that man for filth
R.I.P. Akihiro Miwa (1935–2026), legendary chanteur, actor & drag queen. Star of Terayama’s "La Marie-Vison" and Mishima’s "Black Lizard", Miwa survived Nagasaki and championed pacifism. Miwa also voiced Moro in MONONOKE and was among Japan’s first openly gay public figures.