Tamasaburo Bando
April 25, 1950 (74 years old) in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
Known For
Credits
- 2004 ·Ume Goyomias
- 1995 ·The Tale of Himeji Castleas
- 1995 ·The Written Faceas Self
- 1994 ·Nastazjaas Prince Myshkin / Nastasya Filippovna (as Tamasaburo Bando)
- 1991 ·Yumejias Onshu Inamura
- 1988 ·Tokyo: The Last Megalopolisas Kyoka Izumi
- 1979 ·Demon Pondas Yuri / Princess Shirayuki