Tsutomu Yamazaki

Tsutomu Yamazaki
Born	(1936-12-02) December 2, 1936 Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Occupation	Actor

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.

Selected filmography

• High and Low (1963)
• Yashagaike (1979)
• Kagemusha (1980)
• The Funeral (1984)
• Farewell to the Ark (1985)
• Tampopo (1985)
• A Taxing Woman (1987)
• Rikyu (1989)
• Bokura wa Minna Ikiteiru (1994)
• Go (2001)
• Doing Time (2002)
• Mohou-han (2003)
• Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World (2004)
• Kurosagi (2006)
• Crickets (2006)
• Departures (2008)
• Climber's High (2008)
• The Ramen Girl (2008)
• Space Battleship Yamato (2010)

External links

• Tsutomu Yamazaki at IMDb
• Tsutomu Yamazaki at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)