Tamasaburo Bando
Kabuki actor, and the most popular and celebrated onnagata (an actor specializing in female roles) currently on stage. He has also acted in a handful of films. Born in 1950, Shin'ichi Morita was adopted by Morita Kan'ya XIV, and made his first appearance on stage at the age of seven, under the name Bandō Kinoji. At a shūmei (naming ceremony) in 1964 he became the fifth to take the name Bandō Tamasaburō; his adoptive father had been the fourth. In 1993, he directed the film Yearning, which was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
as Kyoka IzumiThe reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
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Demon Pond
as Yuri / Princess ShirayukiWhen a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed...
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Yumeji
as Onshu InamuraFollowing the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an...
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The Tale of Himeji Castle
as uncreditedA young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a...
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Nastazja
as Prince Myshkin / Nastasya Filippovna (as Tamasaburo Bando)Andrzej Wajda's Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky's Idiot, in which...
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The Written Face
as SelfIn Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's...
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Ume Goyomi
as uncreditedThe main story concerns the rivalry between Adakichi and Yonehachi, two geisha of the Fukagawa...
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