Tsutomu Yamazaki
Birthday: 1936-12-02
Place of Birth: Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Biography: 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.
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White-Collar Worker Kintaro
Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working a...
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoo...
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Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside ...
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Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep with...
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Climber's High
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest sin...
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The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events a...
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As Long as There's Tomorrow
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attemp...
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Rikyu
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...
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A Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go...
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Space Battleship Yamato
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by th...
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The Guys from Paradise
The ever-prolific Takashi Miike directs this wild and woolly prison drama, reportedly based on real-...
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Departures
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown ...
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Dear Asuka and My Unborn Child...
A doctor who died at a young age due to the metastasis of a malignant tumor to the lungs after cutti...
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Fan of Hong Kong star
The protagonist is a woman (Hiroko Yakushimaru) who is a sales manager at the Japanese branch of a f...
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A Quiet Life
A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famou...
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Nakibokuro
Junko Mizuta, who is returning from juvenile training school, is a former motorcycle gang. Even thou...
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Shinibana
After the death of a man in their nursing home, a group of residents find his notebook titled "Shini...
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The Sun is Calling You
A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as...
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Doing Time
A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, even...
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The Woodsman and the Rain
A widowed lumberjack's life is turned upside down when a film crew shooting a zombie movie asks for ...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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Lovers Lost
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mis...
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Copycat Killer
The story of a criminal who abducts and kills women, and those who try to catch him. Nakai is cast a...
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Shield of Straw
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter ...
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The Making of "Tampopo"
Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985)....
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The Making of "A Taxing Woman"
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna" a.k.a. "A Taxi...
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'Kutabare' Bocchan
27-year-old Yazaki Junpei has come back to his hometown of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture for the fir...
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Beautiful Sunday
A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, th...
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FREESTYLE SHORT MOVIES
Anthology of five low-budget short films: "Nao and I", "MILD7", "LOVERS", "Strawberry Fields", "Labe...
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Where did Sharaku go?
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed,...
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The School of Flesh
A love story about a former noblewoman who greedily enjoys love after breaking up with her unhappy m...
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Sanshiro Sugata
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshi...
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The Emperor in August
In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A c...
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GO
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society t...
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Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori
Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habi...
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Go Heat Man!
17 year old Tokyo pizza delivery boy Kosuke crashes his bike into photographer Reiko and breaks her ...
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Crickets
Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a p...
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Catastrophe
A Salaryman in Hokkaido heads to Tokyo for his daughters wedding, but the fun is just beginning,,,...
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The Goblin of Mt. Kurama
The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades...
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Kakekomi
Kakekomi tells the stories of Edo women in the 1800s that escape abusive husbands and lovers by taki...
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Farewell to the Ark
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and ...
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Sleeping Forest
A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ...
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Girls Behind Bars
A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths o...
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The Unspoiled Diamond
A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher....
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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of the...
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Wait and See
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his tr...
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The Wings of the Kirin
A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect ...
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high...
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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The Magnificent Nine
Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzab...
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Stairs of Evil
Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Indust...
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The Ramen Girl
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction...
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Blade of the Immortal
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted b...
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Harimao
A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Penins...
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Human Target
At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler,...
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Dolphin Blue: Soar Again, Fuji
Kazuya Uemura is an American veterinarian who has just arrived at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. Uem...
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The Abe Clan
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of...
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Brand of Evil
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is par...
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Miracle Apples
Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown ...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y...
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The Crimes That Bind
Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was str...
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The Dancer
Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Be...
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Demon Pond
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in ...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor...
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Mori, The Artist's Habitat
Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for...
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Killing for the Prosecution
Young public prosecutor Keiichiro Okino is assigned to the department of the Tokyo Public Prosecutor...
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The Black Swindler
There are three kinds of swindler. One, called the "WHITE SWINDLER", finds a mark and steals money. ...
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Cross-Currents
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney o...
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Legacy of the 500,000
During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay...
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A Long Goodbye
Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza ...
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We Are Not Alone
Businessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure....
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Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him....
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Turning Point
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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Samurai Kids
A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai...
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High School Girl's Friend
Genichiro, a lonely retired man living with his son’s family who mostly ignores him, feels closest t...
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As a Father of Murderer Son
Keiichi Yoshinaga, who works for a major construction company receives a sudden phone call from his ...
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The Angry Sea
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman....
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Magnitude 7.9
A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored....
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Woman of Design
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutica...
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Clouds at Sunset
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start ove...
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What the Snow Brings
Following a tip, Manabu Yazaki loses his last money betting on the older "banba" horse "Unryu" (jock...
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Red Finger
A 7 years girl is found dead in the local park’s toilet. Kaga Kyouichiro, who was asked to find the ...
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Making of "Departures"
A documentary about the making and shooting of Yojiro Takita’s ‘Departures’ (2008)...
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The White Rose of Hong Kong
Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong ...
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Fright Time
A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, con...
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