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.^[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
1980	5th Hochi Film Award	Best Supporting Actor	Kagemusha	Won
1981	54th Kinema Junpo Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Kagemusha	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
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 Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Go	Won
	44th Blue Ribbon Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Go	Won
2003	26th Japan Academy Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Copycat Killer	Nominated
2009	32nd Japan Academy Prize	Best Supporting Actor	Departures	Won
2009	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

↑ ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved April 8, 2010.
↑ 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.

External links

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

Awards

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor

Japan Academy 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)
Kōji Yakusho (1995)
Kōji 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)
Gō Ayano (2014)
Shinya Tsukamoto (2015)

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)
Gō Ayano (2016)

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

Yokohama Film Festival 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)

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor

Chishū Ryū (1951)
Daisuke Katō (1952)
Eitarō Shindō (1953)
Eijirō Tōno (1954)
Daisuke Katō (1955)
Jun Tatara (1956)
Kōji Mitsui (1957)
Ganjirō Nakamura (1958)
Shoichi Ozawa (1959)
Masao Oda (1960)
So Yamamura (1961)
Yūnosuke Itō (1962)
Chōichirō Kawarasaki (1963)
Kō Nishimura (1964)
Takahiro Tamura (1965)
Katsuo Nakamura (1966)
Yoshio Harada (1975)
Hideji Ōtaki (1976)
Tomisaburo Wakayama (1977)
Tsunehiko Watase (1978)
Rentarō Mikuni (1979)
Tetsurō Tamba (1980)
Masahiko Tsugawa (1981)
Akira Emoto (1982)
Kunie Tanaka (1983)
Kaku Takashina (1984)
Takeshi Kitano (1985)
Kei Suma (1986)
Toshiro Mifune (1987)
Tsurutaro Kataoka (1988)
Eiji Bandō (1989)
Toshirō Yanagiba (1990)
Masatoshi Nagase (1991)
Hideo Murota (1992)
George Tokoro (1993)
Atsuo Nakamura (1994)
Masato Hagiwara (1995)
Tetsuya Watari (1996)
Masahiko Nishimura (1997)
Ren Osugi (1998)
Shinji Takeda (1999)
Teruyuki Kagawa (2000)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (2001)
Kanji Tsuda (2002)
Taro Yamamoto (2003)
Joe Odagiri (2004)
Shinichi Tsutsumi (2005)
Teruyuki Kagawa (2006)
Tomokazu Miura (2007)
Masato Sakai (2008)
Eita (2009)
Renji Ishibashi (2010)
Yūsuke Iseya (2011)
Arata Iura (2012)
Pierre Taki (2013)
Sosuke Ikematsu (2014)
Masahiro Motoki (2015)

Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

Hiroyuki Sanada (1988)
Eiji Bandō (1989)
Hidetaka Yoshioka (1990)
Masatoshi Nagase (1991)
Takehiro Murata (1992)
Ken Tanaka (1993)
Masahiko Tsugawa (1994)
Hitoshi Ueki (1995)
Tetsuya Watari (1996)
Masahiko Nishimura (1997)
Ren Osugi (1998)
Kippei Shiina (1999)
Tetsurō Tamba (2000)
Tsutomu Yamazaki (2001)
Teruyuki Kagawa (2002)
Bunta Sugawara (2003)
Nakamura Shidō II (2004)
Shinichi Tsutsumi (2005)
Takao Osawa (2006)
Takashi Sasano (2007)
Masato Sakai (2008)
Tomokazu Miura (2009)
Goro Inagaki (2010)
Toshiyuki Nishida (2011)
Mirai Moriyama (2012)
Lily Franky (2013)
Sosuke Ikematsu (2014)
Masahiro Motoki (2015)
Satoshi Tsumabuki (2016)

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