Tsutomu Yamazaki

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-12-02 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Biography

Tsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努 Yamazaki Tsutomu) (born December 2, 1936 in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He has been nominated for seven Japanese Academy Awards, winning Best Actor awards for the Juzo Itami comedies The Funeral and A Taxing Woman, and the Best Supporting Actor awards for Go and Departures. He also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tsutomu Yamazaki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1965

Red Beard

as Sahachi

1970

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

as Takeshi Ishizuka

1985

Tampopo

as Goro

1980

Kagemusha

as Nobukado Takeda

1963

High and Low

as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern

2008

Climber's High

as Raizo Shirakawa

1984

The Funeral

as Wabisuke Inoue

1989

Rikyu

as Hideyoshi Toyotomi

1987

A Taxing Woman

as Hideki Gondo

2003

Thirteen Steps

as Shoji Nango

2010

2001

The Guys from Paradise

as Katsuaki Yoshida

2008

Departures

as Ikuei Sasaki

1995

A Quiet Life

as Father

2004

Shinibana

as Makoto Kikushima

2002

Doing Time

as Hanawa

1971

Kaoyaku

as Toshio Sugiura

1963

A Woman's Life

as Kohei Shimizu

1982

Lovers Lost

as Tetsuo Takeuchi

2002

Copycat Killer

as Yoshio Arima

2013

Shield of Straw

as Ninagawa

1965

Sanshiro Sugata

as Genshiro

2015

The Emperor in August

as Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki

2001

GO

as Sugihara's Father

2001

Go Heat Man!

as Mysterious Harley-Davidson Man

2006

Crickets

as Blind Man

1990

Catastrophe

as Tadashi Suzuki

2015

Kakekomi

as Bakin Kyokutei

1984

Farewell to the Ark

as Sutekichi Tokito

2014

Sleeping Forest

as Takamasa Kaga

1982

The Unspoiled Diamond

as Ichiro Mimura

2012

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

as Hiroshi Higashide

1998

Wait and See

as Sasaichi

2012

The Wings of the Kirin

as Takamasa Kaga

1981

1978

August without Emperor

as Tadashi Tojo

2016

The Magnificent Nine

as Juzaburo’s Father

1965

2008

The Ramen Girl

as Grand Master

2017

Blade of the Immortal

as Kensui Ibane

1989

Harimao

as Major Jogasaki

1971

Human Target

as Yamabe

1995

The Abe Clan

as Abe Yaich'emon

1964

Brand of Evil

as Kikuchi Masaaki

2013

Miracle Apples

as Seiji Kimura

2018

The Crimes That Bind

as Takamasa Kaga

1989

The Dancer

as Count Amagata

1979

Demon Pond

as Gaukuen Yamazaki

1977

2018

Mori, The Artist's Habitat

as Morikazu Kumagai

2018

2008

The Black Swindler

as Toshio Katsuragi

1963

2019

A Long Goodbye

as Shohei Higashi

1994

Turning Point

as Prime Minister Tamura

1993

Samurai Kids

as Sutonahiko Suminoe

2018

As a Father of Murderer Son

as Yoshinaga Katsuhiko

1960

The Angry Sea

as Yakichi

1962

Woman of Design

as Tatsuya Kurai

2011

Red Finger

as Takamasa Kaga

1965

The White Rose of Hong Kong

as Shiro Matsumoto

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