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 (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)
• Tora-san's Cherished Mother (1969)
• 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)
• Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (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
• The Magnificent Nine (2016)
• Blade of the Immortal (2017) – Kensui Ibane

TV dramas

• Seikimatsu no Uta/The Last Song (1998) - Prof. Natsuo Momose
• Gokenin Zankurō (2001)
• Roosevelt Game (2014)
• Leaders 2 (2017) - Isokichi Ōshima

Awards and honours

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
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
2000	Medal with Purple Ribbon
2008	Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette

References

1. ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved April 8, 2010.
2. Hadley-Garcia, George (January 23, 2009). "Broth in translation - The Japan Times". The Japan Times.
3. 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)