Tsutomu Yamazaki

Tsutomu Yamazaki
"Movie Pictorial (Eiga Joho)", December 1963 issue.
Born	1936 (age 87–88) Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1960–present
Spouse	Hikaru Mayuzumi ​ (m. 1963)​

Tsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努, Yamazaki Tsutomu, born 1936) is a Japanese actor. He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark.^[1] Yamazaki is known for his roles as Goro in Tampopo (1985) and Nenbutsu no Tetsu on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu Shiokinin and Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin.^[2]

Yamazaki graduated from Haiyuza Theatre Company and joined Bungakuza in 1959.^[3] He made his film debut in Kihachi Okamoto's Daigaku no sanzôkutachi in 1960.^[3] In 1961, he received the Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year.^[4] In 1963, he appeared in Akira Kurosawa's High and Low. He worked with Kurosawa twice more: in the director's next film, 1965's Red Beard, then fifteen years later, in Kagemusha.

In 1973, he appeared jidaigeki television drama Hissatsu Shiokinin and he played the same role in Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin again in 1977.^[3] He also starred in number of Juzo Itami's films, including his role as a trucker who resembles John Wayne in Tampopo (1985). He co-starred in The Ramen Girl (2008) with Brittany Murphy.^[5]

He also played a supporting role in Yōjirō Takita's Departures.^[6]

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

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