Tsutomu Yamazaki
Tsutomu Yamazaki | |
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Born |
Matsudo, Chiba, Japan | December 2, 1936
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 (1985) as well as co-starring in The Ramen Girl (2008) 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)
Awards and honours
Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
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1961 | 6th Elan d'or Awards | Newcomers of the Year | Won | |
1980 | 3rd Japan Academy Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Yashagaike | Nominated |
5th Hochi Film Award | Best Supporting Actor | Kagemusha | Won | |
1981 | 54th Kinema Junpo Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Won | |
1985 | 8th Japan Academy Prize | Best Actor | The Funeral, Farewell to the Ark | Won |
58th Kinema Junpo Awards | Best Actor | Won | ||
27th Blue Ribbon Awards | Best Actor | Won | ||
39th Mainichi Film Awards | Best Actor | Won | ||
1990 | 13th Japan Academy Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Rikyu, Harimau, The Dancing Girl | Nominated |
1994 | 17th Japan Academy Prize | Best Supporting Actor | We Are Not Alone | Nominated |
2001 | 14th Nikkan Sports Film Award | Best Supporting Actor | Go | Won |
26th Hochi Film Award | Best Supporting Actor | Go, The Guys from Paradise, Jogakusei no Tomo | Won | |
2002 | 75th Kinema Junpo Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Won | |
23rd Yokohama Film Festival | Best Supporting Actor | Go, The Guys from Paradise, Jogakusei no Tomo, Go Heat Man! | Won | |
25th Japan Academy Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Go | Won | |
44th Blue Ribbon Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Won | ||
2003 | 26th Japan Academy Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Copycat Killer | Nominated |
2009 | 32nd Japan Academy Prize | Best Supporting Actor | Departures | Won |
18th Tokyo Sports Film Award | Best Supporting Actor | Departures, Climber's High | Won | |
Year | Honor |
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2000 | Medal with Purple Ribbon |
2008 | Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette |
References
- ↑ ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved April 8, 2010.
- ↑ Hadley-Garcia, George (January 23, 2009). "Broth in translation - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
- ↑ Phipps, Keith (May 28, 2009). "Departures - Film - Movie Review - The A.V. Club". The A.V. Club.
External links
- Tsutomu Yamazaki at the Internet Movie Database
- Tsutomu Yamazaki at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
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