Tsutomu Yamazaki

Tsutomu Yamazaki
Born	(1936-12-02) 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.

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.

He also played a supporting role in Yojiro Takita's Departures.

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)

External links

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