Tsutomu Yamazaki

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...

Known For

High and Low

as Ginjirô Takeuchi - Medical Intern

Departures

as Ikuei Sasaki

Kagemusha

as Nobukado Takeda

Cast Credits

A Long Goodbye

as Shohei Higashi

As a Father of Murderer Son

as Yoshinaga Katsuhiko

The Crimes That Bind

as Takamasa Kaga

Mori, The Artist's Habitat

as Morikazu Kumagai

Blade of the Immortal

as Kensui Ibane

The Magnificent Nine

as Juzaburo’s Father

The Emperor in August

as Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki

Kakekomi

as Bakin Kyokutei

Sleeping Forest

as Takamasa Kaga

Miracle Apples

as Seiji Kimura

Shield of Straw

as Ninagawa

Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home

as Hiroshi Higashide

The Wings of the Kirin

as Takamasa Kaga

Red Finger

as Takamasa Kaga

Departures

as Ikuei Sasaki

Climber's High

as Raizo Shirakawa

The Black Swindler

as Toshio Katsuragi

The Ramen Girl

as Grand Master

Crickets

as Blind Man

Shinibana

as Makoto Kikushima