Tsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努, Yamazaki Tsutomu, born December 2, 1936) is a Japanese actor. He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark. Yamazaki is well known for his role "Nenbutsu no Tetsu" on the television jidaigeki Hissatsu Shiokinin and Shin Hissatsu Shiokinin.
Career
Yamazaki joined Bungakuza in 1959. He made his film debut in Kihachi Okamoto`s Daigaku no sanzôkutachi in 1960. 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. He also starred in director Juzo Itami movies, as a trucker who resembles John Wayne in Tampopo (1985) as well as co-starring in The Ramen Girl (2008) with Brittany Murphy.
He also played a supporting role in Yōjirō Takita's Departures.
Awards and Honours
| Year
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Award
|
Category
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Work(s)
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Result
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| 1961
|
6th Elan d'or Awards
|
Newcomer of the Year
|
Himself
|
Won
|
| 1980
|
3rd Japan Academy Prize
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Yashagaike
|
Nominated
|
| 5th Hochi Film Award
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Kagemusha
|
Won
|
| 1981
|
54th Kinema Junpo Awards
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Won
|
| 1985
|
8th Japan Academy Prize
|
Best Actor
|
The Funeral, Farewell to the Ark
|
Won
|
| 58th Kinema Junpo Awards
|
Best Actor
|
Won
|
| 27th Blue Ribbon Awards
|
Best Actor
|
Won
|
| 39th Mainichi Film Awards
|
Best Actor
|
Won
|
| 1990
|
13th Japan Academy Prize
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Rikyu, Harimau, The Dancing Girl
|
Nominated
|
| 1994
|
17th Japan Academy Prize
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
We Are Not Alone
|
Nominated
|
| 2001
|
14th Nikkan Sports Film Award
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Go
|
Won
|
| 26th Hochi Film Award
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Go, The Guys from Paradise, Jogakusei no Tomo
|
Won
|
| 2002
|
75th Kinema Junpo Awards
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Won
|
| 23rd Yokohama Film Festival
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Go, The Guys from Paradise, Jogakusei no Tomo, Go Heat Man!
|
Won
|
| 25th Japan Academy Prize
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Go
|
Won
|
| 44th Blue Ribbon Awards
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Won
|
| 2003
|
26th Japan Academy Prize
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Copycat Killer
|
Nominated
|
| 2009
|
32nd Japan Academy Prize
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Departures
|
Won
|
| 18th Tokyo Sports Film Award
|
Best Supporting Actor
|
Departures, Climber's High
|
Won
|
| 2018
|
43rd Hochi Film Awards
|
Best Actor
|
Mori, The Artist's Habitat
|
Nominated
|
| 2019
|
73rd Mainichi Film Awards
|
Best Actor
|
Nominated
|
| 28th Tokyo Sports Film Award
|
Best Actor
|
Nominated
|
| Year
|
Honor
|
| 2000
|
Medal with Purple Ribbon
|
| 2008
|
Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette
|
