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Tsutomu Yamazaki

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Tsutomu Yamazaki
Born	(1936-12-02) December 2, 1936 (age 87) Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1960–present
Spouse	Hikaru Mayuzumi (m. 1963)

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] Yamazaki is well known for his role "Nenbutsu no Tetsu" on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu Shiokinin and Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin.^[2]

Career[edit]

Yamazaki graduated from Haiyuza Theatre Company and joined Bungakuza in 1959.^[3] He made his film debut in Kihachi Okamoto's Daigaku no sanzôkutachi in 1960.^[3] In 1961, he received the Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year.^[4] In 1963, he appeared 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.

In 1973, he appeared jidaigeki television drama Hissatsu Shiokinin and he played the same role in Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin again in 1977.^[3] He also starred in number of Juzo Itami's films, including his role as a trucker who resembles John WayneinTampopo (1985). He co-starred in The Ramen Girl (2008) with Brittany Murphy.^[5]

He also played a supporting role in Yōjirō Takita's Departures.^[6]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1963	High and Low	Ginjirō Takeuchi	Akira Kurosawa
1963	A Woman's Story	Kohei Shimizu	Mikio Naruse
1965	Red Beard	Sahachi	Akira Kurosawa
1969	Tora-san's Cherished Mother		Yoji Yamada
1970	Fuji sanchō	Takeshi Ishizuka	Tetsutaro Murano
1975	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head	Tetsuya Kusunoki	Kinji Fukasaku
1979	Yashagaike		Masahiro Shinoda
1979	Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity	Shingo Takagi	Eiichi Kudo
1980	Kagemusha	Takeda Nobukado	Akira Kurosawa
1982	Dotonbori River		Kinji Fukasaku
1984	The Funeral		Juzo Itami	Lead role
1985	Farewell to the Ark		Shūji Terayama	Lead role
1985	Tampopo	Gorō	Juzo Itami	Lead role
1987	A Taxing Woman	Hideki Gondō	Juzo Itami
1989	Rikyu	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	Hiroshi Teshigahara
1993	We Are Not Alone		Yōjirō Takita
1993	Samurai Kids		Nobuhiko Obayashi	Lead role
1998	A Quiet Life	Father	Juzo Itami
1998	Wait and See		Shinji Sōmai
2001	The Guys from Paradise	Katsuaki Yoshida	Takashi Miike
2001	Go	Hideyoshi	Isao Yukisada
2002	Doing Time		Yoichi Sai	Lead role
2002	Copycat Killer		Yoshimitsu Morita
2003	The Thirteen Steps		Masahiko Nagasawa
2004	Crying Out Love in the Center of the World		Isao Yukisada
2004	Blooming Again		Isshin Inudo	Lead role
2005	What the Snow Brings	Tamba	Kichitaro Negishi
2006	Kurosagi		Yasuharu Ishii
2006	Crickets		Shinji Aoyama
2007	Dolphine Blue		Tetsu Maeda
2008	Departures	Sasaki	Yōjirō Takita
	Climber's High	Shirakawa	Masato Harada
	The Ramen Girl		Robert Allan Ackerman	American–Japanese film
2009	Kamui Gaiden	Narrator	Yoichi Sai
2010	Space Battleship Yamato	Capt Jūzō Okita	Takashi Yamazaki
2011	The Woodsman and the Rain		Shūichi Okita
2011	The Wings of the Kirin	Takamasa Kaga	Nobuhiro Doi	Special appearance
2012	Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home		Tomoyuki Takimoto
2013	Shield of Straw		Takashi Miike
2013	Miracle Apples		Yoshihiro Nakamura
2014	As the Gods Will	Shirokuma	Takashi Miike	Voice role
2015	The Emperor in August	Kantarō Suzuki	Masato Harada
2015	Kakekomi	Takizawa Bakin	Masato Harada
2016	The Actor	Kotō	Satoko Yokohama
2016	The Magnificent Nine		Yoshihiro Nakamura
2017	Blade of the Immortal	Kensui Ibane	Takashi Miike
2017	Mumon: The Land of Stealth	Narrator	Yoshihiro Nakamura
2018	The Crimes That Bind	Takamasa Kaga	Katsuo Fukuzawa
	Killing For The Prosecution	Yūma Shirakawa	Masato Harada
	Mori, The Artist's Habitat	Morikazu "Mori" Kumagai	Shūichi Okita	Lead role
2019	A Long Goodbye	Shōhei	Ryōta Nakano

TV dramas[edit]

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
1967	Sanshimai	Kingoro Aoe/Shinichiro Kosugi	NHK	Taiga drama
1972	Shin Heike Monogatari	Tairano Tokitada	NHK	Taiga drama
1972	Okappiki Dobu	Okappiki Dobu	KTV	Lead role
1972	Nemuri Kyōshirō	Okappiki Dobu	KTV	Episode17
1973	Hissatsu Shiokinin	Nenbutsu no Tetsu	ABC	Lead role, Hissatsu series
1976-77	Hissatsu Karakurinin Kepuuhen	Dozaemon	ABC	Lead role, Hissatsu series
1978	Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin	Nenbutsu no Tetsu	ABC	Hissatsu series
1995	Kumokiri Nizaemon	Kumokiri Nizaemon	Fuji TV	Lead role
1995	The Abe Clan	Abe Yaichi'emon	Fuji TV	TV movie
1998	Seikimatsu no Uta/The Last Song	Prof. Natsuo Momose	NTV
2001	Gokenin Zankurō		Fuji TV	Episode 10
2006	Kurosagi	Katsuragi Toshio	TBS
2014	Roosevelt Game	Takeshi Aoshima	TBS
2014	Leaders	Isokichi Ōshima	TBS	Mini-Series
2018	As a Father of Murderer Son	Katsuhiko Yoshinaga	TV Tokyo	TV movie

Awards and honours[edit]

Year	Award	Category	Work(s)	Result	Ref.
1961	6th Elan d'or Awards	Newcomer of the Year	Himself	Won
1980	3rd Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Yashagaike	Nominated
1980	5th Hochi Film Award	Best Supporting Actor	Kagemusha	Won
1981	54th Kinema Junpo Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Kagemusha	Won
1985	8th Japan Academy Film 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 Film Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Rikyu, Harimau, The Dancing Girl	Nominated
1994	17th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Supporting Actor	We Are Not Alone	Nominated
2001	14th Nikkan Sports Film Award	Best Supporting Actor	Go	Won
2001	26th Hochi Film Award	Best Supporting Actor	Go, The Guys from Paradise, Jogakusei no Tomo	Won
2002	75th Kinema Junpo Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Go, The Guys from Paradise, Jogakusei no Tomo	Won
	23rd Yokohama Film Festival	Best Supporting Actor	Go, The Guys from Paradise, Jogakusei no Tomo, Go Heat Man!	Won
	25th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Go	Won
	44th Blue Ribbon Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Go	Won
2003	26th Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Copycat Killer	Nominated
2009	32nd Japan Academy Film Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Departures	Won
2009	18th Tokyo Sports Film Award	Best Supporting Actor	Departures, Climber's High	Won
2018	43rd Hochi Film Awards	Best Actor	Mori, The Artist's Habitat	Nominated
2019	73rd Mainichi Film Awards	Best Actor		Nominated
2019	28th Tokyo Sports Film Award	Best Actor		Nominated
2022	45th Japan Academy Film Prize	Distinguished Service Award	Himself	Won	^[7]

Year	Honor	Ref.
2000	Medal with Purple Ribbon	^[8]
2008	Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette	^[8]

References[edit]

^ ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved April 8, 2010.

^ "山崎努が振り返る"あの役"「僕の演じた役の中で、代表作なんじゃないかな」]publisher=excite news". Retrieved March 16, 2019.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Tsutomu Yamazaki biography". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

^ "エランドール賞歴代受賞者一覧". 一般社団法人日本映画テレビプロデューサー協会. Retrieved July 8, 2021.

^ 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.

^ "日本アカデミー賞「孤狼の血2」が最多13の優秀賞、「ドライブ・マイ・カー」は8部門". Natalie. Retrieved January 19, 2022.

^ ^a ^b "山崎努". eiga.com. Retrieved January 19, 2022.

External links[edit]

Tsutomu YamazakiatIMDb
Tsutomu Yamazaki at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

Awards for Tsutomu Yamazaki

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor

Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor

Masayuki Mori (1947)
Chishū Ryū (1948)
Takashi Shimura (1949)
Shin Saburi (1950)
Chishū Ryū (1951)
Shin Saburi (1952)
Ken Uehara (1953)
So Yamamura (1954)
Hisaya Morishige (1955)
Keiji Sada (1956)
Toshiro Mifune (1957)
Keiju Kobayashi (1958)
Eiji Funakoshi (1959)
Keiju Kobayashi (1960)
Tatsuya Nakadai (1961)
Taiji Tonoyama (1962)
Keiju Kobayashi (1963)
Kō Nishimura (1964)
Rentarō Mikuni (1965)
Shoichi Ozawa (1966)
Kunie Tanaka (1967)
Minori Terada (1968)
Kiyoshi Atsumi (1969)
Hisashi Igawa (1970)
Shintaro Katsu (1971)
Takeo Chii (1972)
Tetsurō Tamba (1973)
Rentarō Mikuni (1974)
Shin Saburi (1975)
Tetsuya Watari (1976)
Ken Takakura (1977)
Ken Ogata (1978)
Tomisaburo Wakayama (1979)
Tatsuya Nakadai (1980)
Takahiro Tamura (1981)
Kō Nishimura (1982)
Ken Ogata (1983)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (1984)
Kin'ya Kitaōji (1985)
Eiji Okuda (1986)
Masahiko Tsugawa (1987)
Hajime Hana (1988)
Rentarō Mikuni (1989)
Masato Furuoya (1990)
Masatoshi Nagase (1991)
Kyōzō Nagatsuka (1992)
Gorō Kishitani (1993)
Eiji Okuda (1994)
Koji Yakusho (1995)
Koji Yakusho (1996)
Yoshio Harada (1997)
Masahiro Motoki (1998)
Keiju Kobayashi (1999)
Tadanobu Asano (2000)
Tatsuya Mihashi (2001)
Hiroyuki Sanada (2002)
Toshiyuki Nishida (2003)
Takeshi Kitano (2004)
Tadanobu Asano (2005)
Kōichi Satō (2006)
Taichi Kokubun (2007)
Hiroshi Abe (2008)
Kenichi Matsuyama (2009)
Shinichi Tsutsumi (2010)
Mirai Moriyama (2011)
Isao Natsuyagi (2012)
Ryuhei Matsuda (2013)
Go Ayano (2014)
Shinya Tsukamoto (2015)
Masahiro Motoki (2016)
Masaki Suda (2017)
Tasuku Emoto (2018)
Ryo Narita (2019)
Mirai Moriyama (2020)
Takeru Satoh (2021)
Kenji Sawada (2022)
Ryohei Suzuki (2023)

Hochi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

Hideji Ōtaki (1976)
Takeshi Katō (1977)
Tsunehiko Watase (1978)
Rentarō Mikuni (1979)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (1980)
Katsuo Nakamura (1981)
Akira Emoto (1982)
Juzo Itami (1983)
Kaku Takashina (1984)
Tomokazu Miura (1985)
Kei Suma (1986)
Masahiko Tsugawa (1987)
Tsurutaro Kataoka (1988)
Yoshio Harada (1989)
Renji Ishibashi (1990)
Hiroshi Kanbe (1991)
Takehiro Murata (1992)
Ittoku Kishibe (1993)
Kiichi Nakai (1994)
Etsushi Toyokawa (1995)
Tetsuya Watari (1996)
Masahiko Nishimura (1997)
Ren Osugi (1998)
Kippei Shiina (1999)
Tadanobu Asano (2000)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (2001)
Ryo Ishibashi (2002)
Hiroyuki Miyasako (2003)
Yoshio Harada (2004)
Shinichi Tsutsumi (2005)
Teruyuki Kagawa (2006)
Shirō Itō (2007)
Masato Sakai (2008)
Eita (2009)
Akira Emoto (2010)
Denden (2011)
Mirai Moriyama (2012)
Pierre Taki (2013)
Masahiko Tsugawa (2014)
Masahiro Motoki (2015)
Go Ayano (2016)
Koji Yakusho (2017)
Kazunari Ninomiya (2018)
Ryo Narita (2019)
Gen Hoshino (2020)
Ryohei Suzuki (2021)
Ryusei Yokohama (2022)
Hayato Isomura (2023)

Japan Academy Film Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Yokohama Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor

Keizō Kanie (1980)
Morio Kazama (1981)
Renji Ishibashi (1982)
Mitsuru Hirata (1983)
Juzo Itami (1984)
Kaku Takashina (1985)
Tomokazu Miura (1986)
Kaoru Kobayashi (1987)
Sabu Kawahara (1988)
Tsurutaro Kataoka (1989)
Yoshio Harada (1990)
Keizō Kanie (1991)
Koji Matoba (1992)
Hideo Murota (1993)
Masato Hagiwara (1994)
Kōichi Satō (1995)
Kazuhiko Kanayama (1996)
Ryo Ishibashi (1997)
Masahiko Nishimura / Isao Bitoh (1998)
Ren Osugi (1999)
Kazuki Kitamura (2000)
Teruyuki Kagawa / Jun Murakami (2001)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (2002)
Shinya Tsukamoto (2003)
Nao Ōmori (2004)
Akira Emoto (2005)
Ittoku Kishibe (2006)
Takashi Sasano (2007)
Masatoshi Nagase (2008)
Hidetoshi Nishijima (2009)
Yoshinori Okada / Yutaka Matsushige (2010)
Renji Ishibashi (2011)
Denden (2012)
Takayuki Yamada (2013)
Lily Franky (2014)
Sosuke Ikematsu (2015)
Ken Mitsuishi (2016)
Masaki Suda (2017)
Sansei Shiomi / Tori Matsuzaka (2018)
Tori Matsuzaka (2019)
Ryo Narita (2020)
Shōhei Uno / Naoto Ogata (2021)
Ryohei Suzuki (2022)
Hayato Isomura / Tasuku Emoto (2023)
Hayato Isomura / Kōichi Satō (2024)

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor

Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

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