Tsutomu Yamazaki
| Tsutomu Yamazaki | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 2, 1936 Matsudo, Chiba, Japan |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1960–present |
Tsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努 Yamazaki Tsutomu?, born December 2, 1936) is a Japanese actor. He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark.[1]
Career
Yamazaki made his film debut in 1963, as the kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's High And Low. He worked with Kurosawa twice more: in the director's next film, 1965's Red Beard, then fifteen years later, in Kagemusha. He starred, as a trucker who resembles John Wayne, in Tampopo, a 1985 film about ramen, as well as co-starring in The Ramen Girl, a 2008 film about ramen, with Brittany Murphy.[2]
He also played a supporting role in Yojiro Takita's Departures.[3]
Filmography
Films
- High and Low (1963) – Ginjirō Takeuchi
- Red Beard (1965)
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head (1975)
- Yashagaike (1979)
- Kagemusha (1980)
- Dotonbori River (1982)
- The Funeral (1984)
- Farewell to the Ark (1985)
- Tampopo (1985)
- A Taxing Woman (1987)
- Rikyu (1989) – Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Bokura wa Minna Ikiteiru (1994)
- The Guys from Paradise (2001)
- Go (2001)
- Doing Time (2002)
- The Thirteen Steps (2003)
- Copycat Killer (2003)
- Socrates in Love (2004)
- Kurosagi (2006)
- Crickets (2006)
- Dolphine Blue (2007)
- Departures (2008)
- Climber's High (2008)
- The Ramen Girl (2008)
- Kamui Gaiden (2009)
- Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
- The Woodsman And The Rain (2011)
- The Wings of the Kirin (2011)
- Hayabusa: Harukanaru Kikan (2012)
- Shield of Straw (2013)
- Miracle Apples (2013)
- Kami-sama no Iu Toori (2014) – Shirokuma (voice)
- The Emperor in August (2015) – Kantarō Suzuki
- Kakekomi (2015) – Takizawa Bakin
- Haiyū Kameoka Takuji (2016) – Kotō
- Tono, risoku de gozaru! (2016)
TV dramas
- Gokenin Zankurō (2001)
- Roosevelt Game (2014)
Honours
References
External links
- Tsutomu Yamazaki at the Internet Movie Database
- Tsutomu Yamazaki at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
Script error: The function "top" does not exist.
Script error: The function "bottom" does not exist.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This article about a Japanese actor or actress is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
