Tamasaburo Bando

Tamasaburo Bando

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

  • Title: Tamasaburo Bando
  • Popularity: 3.318
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1950-04-25
  • Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • Homepage: https://www.tamasaburo-bando.com/
  • Also Known As: 五代目 坂東 玉三郎, 坂東玉三郎
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Tamasaburo Bando Movies

  • 1988
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    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

    6.3 1988 HD

    The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.

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  • 2004
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    Ume Goyomi

    Ume Goyomi

    1 2004 HD

    The main story concerns the rivalry between Adakichi and Yonehachi, two geisha of the Fukagawa district of Edo, for the love of the handsome and...

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  • 1991
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    Yumeji

    Yumeji

    6.5 1991 HD

    Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

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  • 1994
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    Nastazja

    Nastazja

    6.2 1994 HD

    Andrzej Wajda's Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky's Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a...

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  • 1995
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    The Tale of Himeji Castle

    The Tale of Himeji Castle

    6.5 1995 HD

    A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He...

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  • 1979
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    Demon Pond

    Demon Pond

    6.2 1979 HD

    When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a...

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  • 1995
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    The Written Face

    The Written Face

    1 1995 HD

    In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in...

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  • 1992
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    Gekashitsu

    Gekashitsu

    1 1992 HD

    Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.

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  • 1993
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    Yearning

    Yearning

    1 1993 HD

    Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this...

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  • 1995
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    The Tale of Himeji Castle

    The Tale of Himeji Castle

    6.5 1995 HD

    A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He...

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  • 1992
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    Gekashitsu

    Gekashitsu

    1 1992 HD

    Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.

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