Tsutomu Yamazaki
Tsutomu Yamazaki 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 as well as co-starring in The Ramen Girl with Brittany Murphy.
He also played a supporting role in Yōjirō Takita's Departures.
Filmography
Film
TV dramas
Awards and Honours
| Year | Honor |
| 2000 | Medal with Purple Ribbon |
| 2008 | Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette |