Tamasaburo Bando

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1950-04-25 (74 years old)

Place of Birth Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Also Known As 五代目 坂東 玉三郎, 坂東玉三郎

Tamasaburo Bando

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

Known For

Actor

1995
1994
Nastazja

as Prince Myshkin / Nastasya Filippovna (as Tamasaburo Bando)

1991
Yumeji

as Onshu Inamura

1988
1979
Demon Pond

as Yuri / Princess Shirayuki

Director

1993
Yearning

as Director

1992
Gekashitsu

as Director

Writer

1992
Gekashitsu

as Screenplay