Tsutomu Yamazaki
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.
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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High and Low
as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical InternIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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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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Tampopo
as GoroIn this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit...
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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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The Ramen Girl
as Grand MasterAn American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for...
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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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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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GO
as Sugihara's FatherSugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a...
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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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Shield of Straw
as NinagawaNinagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His...
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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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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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Killing for the Prosecution
as 白川雄馬Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public...
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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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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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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
as FujimuraKuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
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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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Miracle Apples
as Seiji KimuraAkinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their...
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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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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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Copycat Killer
as Yoshio ArimaBased on the best-selling novel by Miyuki Miyabe. The title “Mohouhan” means “Copycat”, and it...
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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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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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Thirteen Steps
as Shoji NangoA released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
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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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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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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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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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Samurai Kids
as Sutonahiko SuminoeA special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient...
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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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Sanshiro Sugata
as GenshiroRemake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro...
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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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Demon Pond
as Gaukuen YamazakiWhen a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stairs of Evil
as IwaoIwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato...
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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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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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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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FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
as uncreditedAnthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields",...
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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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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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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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Human Target
as YamabeAt midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic...
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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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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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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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Ano Hi Bokura no Inochi wa Toiretto Pepa yori mo Karukatta
as Kenichi Asakura
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
as Takeshi IshizukaThe Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect...
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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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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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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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The Dancer
as Count AmagataBased on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes...
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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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Beautiful Sunday
as uncreditedA droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions...
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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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Harimao
as Major JogasakiA movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay...
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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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The Angry Sea
as YakichiA semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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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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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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The Making of "A Taxing Woman"
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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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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Kaoyaku
as Toshio SugiuraA detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.
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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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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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Catastrophe
as Tadashi SuzukiA Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,
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Making of "Departures"
as HimselfA documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)
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The Honest Realtor
as Tsutomu IshidaHotshot Nagase Saichi is Tosaka Real Estate’s top realtor. He lies through his teeth and will...
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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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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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Leaders
as uncreditedBefore World War II, the automobile industry in developed countries in Europe and the United...
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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 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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Red Cross
as uncreditedKiyo is a female school student in Saga Prefecture, Japan. She admires nurses and wants to be...
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Kumokiri Nizaemon
as uncreditedA Japanese television jidaigeki that was broadcast in prime-time in 1995 on Fuji TV. It is based...
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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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Kemono Michi
as uncreditedThe drama sheds light on the dark side of Japan connected to the political and financial world...
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