Sad demise
Watched his Shiryô no wana (AKA Evil Dead Trap ~ 1988) just last night. The extras included an interview with Ikeda from 2004. Seemed a really nice guy. After the interview there was a piece saying he'd died a few years later. He was just 59.
It had been reported that Ikeda was fighting depression in his later years and a body found floating in the sea near Shima in the Mie Prefecture on December 26, 2010 was identified as his in late January 2011. His death may have been from an accidental fall or suicide but Ikeda had expressed a wish to die in the Shima area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiharu_Ikeda
RIP share