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BornApril 25, 1950 (age 76)
Place of birthTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Film credits10
Tamasaburō Bandō V
AliveKnown for Acting
Biography
Kabuki actor, and the most popular and celebrated onnagata (an actor specializing in female roles) currently on stage. He has also acted in a handful of films. Born in 1950, Shin'ichi Morita was adopted by Morita Kan'ya XIV, and made his first appearance on stage at the age of seven, under the name Bandō Kinoji. At a shūmei (naming ceremony) in 1964 he became the fifth to take the name Bandō Tamasaburō; his adoptive father had been the fourth.
In 1993, he directed the film Yearning, which was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival
Filmography
Kodō: The Heartbeat of the Drum
2014
as Self
Masterpieces of Kabuki Theater: Shinza the Barber
2013
Cinema Kabuki Ghost Story: Peony Lantern
2009
Ume Goyomi
2004
The Tale of Himeji Castle
1995
The Written Face
1995
as Self
Nastazja
1994
as Prince Myshkin / Nastasya Filippovna
Yumeji
1991
as Onshu Inamura
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988
as Kyoka Izumi
Demon Pond
1979
as Yuri / Princess Shirayuki