Tetsurō Tamba
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| Tetsurō Tamba (丹波 哲郎) | |
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| Born | July 17, 1922 Tokyo, Japan |
| Died | September 24, 2006 (aged 84) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1952–2006 |
Tetsurō Tamba (丹波 哲郎 Tanba Tetsurō, July 17, 1922 – September 24, 2006) was a Japanese actor.
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[edit] Biography
Tamba is perhaps best known by Western audiences for his role as Tiger Tanaka in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice (he was dubbed by Robert Rietti). By then, he had among other roles appeared in two films by director Masaki Kobayashi: Harakiri and Kwaidan. He also portrayed the lead character in the police dramas Key Hunter and G-Men '75, the latter of which remains his best-known role in Japan.[1]
He also portrayed the voice of the "Cat King" in the original Japanese version of the Studio Ghibli anime film The Cat Returns. More recently, he had parts in Twilight Samurai and two Takashi Miike films, The Happiness of the Katakuris and Gozu, as well as acting as a spokesperson for the Dai Rei Kai spiritual movement.
Tamba's son, Yoshitaka Tamba, is also an actor.
In February 2005, Tamba was hospitalized for influenza and appendicitis. He lost weight drastically and his health degenerated. On September 24, 2006, he died in Tokyo at the age of 84 of pneumonia.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Films
- Senun Ajia no joo (1957)
- Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi (The Ghost of Kasane) (1957)
- Meijitennou to nichi ro dai sensou (1957)
- Hitogui Ama (1958)
- Tange hidari zen (1963)
- Juu san nin no shikaku (1963)
- The 7th Dawn (1964)
- Ansatsu (1964)
- Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
- Samurai Spy (1965)
- Abashiri Prison (1965)
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- The Five Man Army (1969)
- Goyokin (1969)
- Yakuza deka (1970)
- Silence (1971)
- Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
- The Human Revolution (1973)
- Japan Sinks (1973)
- Castle of Sand (1974)
- Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon (1974)
- Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)
- Water Margin (1975)
- Shinkansen dai bakuha (1975)
- Zoku ningen kakumei (1976)
- Ozora no samurai (1976)
- Hakkoudasan (1977)
- Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (1978)
- Koutei no inai hachigatsu (1978)
- Message from Space (1978)
- Akou jou danzetsu (1978)
- The Battle of Port Arthur (1980)
- Rengou kantai (1981)
- Makai Tensho: Samurai Reincarnation (1981)
- Dai nippon teikoku (1982)
- Giwaku (1982)
- Nihonkai taikai sen umi yuka ba (1983)
- Shura no mure (1984)
- Kukai (1984)
- Rei sen yu (1984)
- Shinran: Path to Purity (1987)
- Shuto Shoushitsu (1987)
- Hai kara-san ga tooru (1987)
- Shogun's Shadow (1989)
- 226 (1989)
- Teito Taisen (1991)
- Edojou Tairan (1991)
- Riki-Oh (1991)
- Peking Genjin: Who Are You? (1997)
- Neji Shiki (1998)
- Crayon Shin-chan Bakuhatsu! Onsen waku waku dai kessen (1999)
- Inou Chuukei ~Shigosen no Yume~ (2001)
- The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
- Neko no Ongaeshi (The Cat Returns) (2002)
- Duri baka nisshi 13 hama chan kikiippatsu! (2002)
- Japan Sinks (2006)
[edit] TV dramas
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[edit] Awards and nominations
[edit] Awards
- 2000: Nikkan Sports Film Award: Best Supporting Actor for 15-Sai: Gakko IV
- 1981: Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for 203 kochi[2]
- 1981: Blue Ribbon Awards: Best Supporting Actor for 203 kochi
- 1974: Mainichi Film Award: Best Actor for Ningen kakumei
[edit] Awards Nominated
- 2001: Japan Academy Prize: Best Supporting Actor for 15-Sai: Gakko IV
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Japan Hero
- ^ "第 4 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品" (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=4. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
[edit] External links
- Tetsuro Tamba at the Internet Movie Database
- Japanese wikipedia page (also source)
- BBC article, retrieved December 10, 2006.
- "地獄: キャスト (Hell: Cast-- < Asu Shino > Tetsuro Tamba)" (in Japanese & English). Jigoku Homepage. 1999. Archived from the original on 2000-08-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20000819071534/http://www.nifty.ne.jp/jigoku/casts.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-07.
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