Tsutomu Yamazaki

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

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (2000)
• Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2008)

References

External links

• Tsutomu Yamazaki at the Internet Movie Database
• Tsutomu Yamazaki at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)