Tsutomu Yamazaki
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努 Yamazaki Tsutomu) (born December 2, 1936 in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He has been nominated for seven Japanese Academy Awards, winning Best Actor awards for the Juzo Itami comedies The Funeral and A Taxing Woman, and the Best Supporting Actor awards for Go and Departures. He also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tsutomu Yamazaki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Tampopo
as GoroIn this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit...
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High and Low
as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical InternA shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when...
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Space Battleship Yamato
as Jūzō OkitaIn 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged...
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Departures
as Ikuei SasakiDaigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small...
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Kagemusha
as Nobukado TakedaAkira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to...
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Red Beard
as SahachiAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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Climber's High
as Raizo ShirakawaOn August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest...
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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
as Shigezou MatsumotoWhile searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep...
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Blade of the Immortal
as Kensui IbaneManji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle....
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A Taxing Woman
as Hideki GondoIntrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering...
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Shield of Straw
as NinagawaNinagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His...
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GO
as Sugihara's FatherSugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as Tetsuya KusunokiThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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Copycat Killer
as Yoshio ArimaMasahiro Nakai (SMAP) stars in this hit film based on the best-selling novel by Miyuki Miyabe....
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The Wings of the Kirin
as Takamasa KagaA man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A...
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Miracle Apples
as Seiji KimuraAkinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their...
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Mori, The Artist's Habitat
as Morikazu KumagaiIn 1974, Morikazu is 94 years old and his wife Hideko is 76 years old. They live at a house in...
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The Magnificent Nine
as Juzaburo’s FatherResidents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including...
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Go Heat Man!
as Mysterious Harley-Davidson Man17 year old Tokyo pizza delivery boy Kosuke crashes his bike into photographer Reiko and breaks...
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
as Mustang ManA runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in...
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The Unspoiled Diamond
as Ichiro MimuraA college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.
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Magnitude 7.9
as uncreditedA large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.
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Killing for the Prosecution
as Yuma ShirakawaYoung public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public...
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Sanshiro Sugata
as GenshiroRemake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro...
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The Abe Clan
as Abe Yaich'emonA Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the...
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Rikyu
as Hideyoshi ToyotomiLate in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through...
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Lovers Lost
as Tetsuo TakeuchiA poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the...
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Demon Pond
as Gaukuen YamazakiOutside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their...
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
as Hiroshi HigashideIn May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of...
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The Funeral
as Wabisuke InoueWhen Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random...
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The Woodsman and the Rain
as KeijiroA widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks...
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The Emperor in August
as Prime Minister Kantaro SuzukiIn July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration....
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Sleeping Forest
as Takamasa KagaA man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at...
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Farewell to the Ark
as Sutekichi TokitoA surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
as Hisashi TajimiThe heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries...
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Samurai Kids
as Sutonahiko SuminoeA special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient...
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Ano Hi Bokura no Inochi wa Toiretto Pepa yori mo Karukatta
as Kenichi Asakura
As a Father of Murderer Son
as Yoshinaga KatsuhikoKeiichi Yoshinaga, who works for a major construction company receives a sudden phone call from...
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Wait and See
as SasaichiA salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to...
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Kakekomi
as Writer Bakin KyokuteiKakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by...
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The Angry Sea
as YakichiA semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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We Are Not Alone
as uncreditedBusinessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure.
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The Crimes That Bind
as Takamasa KagaMichiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was...
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What the Snow Brings
as TanbaFollowing a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu"...
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A Long Goodbye
as Shohei HigashiMari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They...
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
as FujimuraKuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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A Quiet Life
as FatherA melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their...
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August without Emperor
as Tadashi TojoTaking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...
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The Goblin of Mt. Kurama
as uncreditedThe year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with...
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The Making of "Tampopo"
as SelfDocumentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).
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Clouds at Sunset
as uncreditedA Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start...
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The Guys from Paradise
as Katsuaki YoshidaSet in the Philippines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of...
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White-Collar Worker Kintaro
as IgoKintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight....
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Doing Time
as HanawaA man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized,...
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A Woman's Life
as Kohei ShimizuA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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Thirteen Steps
as Shoji NangoA released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
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Girls Behind Bars
as uncreditedA youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the...
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Legacy of the 500,000
as TsukudaDuring World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the...
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Beautiful Sunday
as uncreditedA droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions...
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The Dancer
as Count AmagataBased on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes...
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Kaoyaku
as Toshio SugiuraA detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.
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Red Finger
as uncreditedA 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find...
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Cross-Currents
as uncreditedA ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager...
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Turning Point
as Prime Minister TamuraA middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the...
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The Sun is Calling You
as uncreditedA man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new...
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Making of Marusa No Onna
as SelfA behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna" a.k.a. "A...
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Woman of Design
as Tatsuya KuraiStory of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a...
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Crickets
as Blind ManKaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live...
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Dear Asuka and My Unborn Child...
as uncreditedA doctor who died at a young age due to the metastasis of a malignant tumor to the lungs after...
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Fan of Hong Kong star
as uncreditedThe protagonist is a woman (Hiroko Yakushimaru) who is a sales manager at the Japanese branch of...
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Human Target
as YamabeAt midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic...
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FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
as uncreditedAnthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields",...
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'Kutabare' Bocchan
as uncredited27-year-old Yazaki Junpei has come back to his hometown of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture for the...
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Nakibokuro
as uncreditedJunko Mizuta, who is returning from juvenile training school, is a former motorcycle gang. Even...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Shingo TakagiTwo Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful...
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High School Girl's Friend
as uncreditedGenichiro, a lonely retired man living with his son’s family who mostly ignores him, feels...
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Brand of Evil
as uncreditedA Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he...
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
as Zengo KakimotoAkane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable...
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Shinibana
as Makoto KikushimaAfter the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled...
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Where did Sharaku go?
as uncreditedWriter Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his...
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Catastrophe
as Tadashi SuzukiA Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,
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The Honest Realtor
as Tsutomu IshidaSaichi Nagase is the number one salesperson at a real estate agency whose biggest fault is being...
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Three Sisters
as Aoe KingoroThe Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the...
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Roosevelt Game
as uncreditedBased on the same-titled novel by Ikeido Jun (the writer of Hanzawa Naoki series), the drama...
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The Black Swindler
as Katsuragi ToshioKurosaki is a young man whose family was destroyed by swindlers. Despite that, Kurosaki grows up...
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The Last Song
as Professor MomoseJust when about to commit suicide after being deserted by his bride-to-be during the wedding, a...
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Leaders
as uncreditedBefore World War II, the automobile industry in developed countries in Europe and the United...
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Red Cross
as uncreditedKiyo is a female school student in Saga Prefecture, Japan. She admires nurses and wants to be...
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Kemono Michi
as uncreditedThe drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world...
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The Trading Company
as Jiro UesugiAn economic drama depicting the struggle and collapse of a Japanese general trading company. The...
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