Tetsuro Tamba
Tetsuro Tamba (丹波 哲郎?) | |
In the film You Only Live Twice (1967). |
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Born | July 17, 1922 Tokyo, Japan |
Died | September 25, 2006 Tokyo, Japan |
Tetsuro Tamba (丹波 哲郎 Tanba Tetsurō?, July 17, 1922 - September 25, 2006) was a Japanese actor.
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Biography
He was perhaps best known by Western audiences for his role as Tiger Tanaka in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967). He did not speak English so he was dubbed by Robert Rietti. By then, he had among other roles appeared in two films by director Masaki Kobayashi: Harakiri and Kwaidan. He also portrayed the lead character in the police dramas and , the latter of which remains his best-known role in Japan.[1]
He also portrayed the voice of the "Cat King" in the original Japanese version of the Studio Ghibli anime film The Cat Returns. More recently, he had parts in Twilight Samurai and two Takashi Miike films, The Happiness of the Katakuris and Gozu, as well as acting as a spokesperson for the spiritual movement.
Tamba's son, Yoshitaka Tamba, is also an actor.
In February 2005, Tamba was hospitalized for influenza and appendicitis. He lost weight drastically and his health degenerated. On September 25, 2006, he died in Tokyo at the age of 84 of pneumonia.
Filmography
Movies
- (1957)
- (1963)
- (1963)
- (1964)
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
- Japan Sinks (1973)
- (1974)
- Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)
- (1975)
- (1976)
- (1976)
- (1977)
- (1978)
- (1978)
- (1978)
- (1980)
- (1981)
- (1981)
- (1982)
- (1982)
- (1983)
- (1984)
- (1984)
- (1984)
- (1987)
- (1987)
- (1989)
- (1991)
- (1998)
- Onsen waku waku dai kessen (1999)
- ~Shigosen no Yume~ (2001)
- Neko no Ongaeshi (2002)
- (2002)
- Japan Sinks (2006)
TV Dramas
- (1973)
- (1975)
- (1982)
- (1985 TBS)
- (TBS)
- (NHK)
- (1978 NHK)
- (1980 NHK)
- (1982 NHK)
- (1984 NHK)
- (1985-86 NHK)
- (1985)
- takabayashi ayuko shiriizu (1986-2005 NTV)
- Mito Koumon (1986 TBS)
- (1986)
- Inochi (1986 NHK)
- (1987)
- (1989 NHK)
- (1990)
- (1991)
- (1992 TBS)
- (1995 NHK)
- (2001)
- (2002 NHK)
- (2005 NHK)
Awards and Nominations
Awards Won
- 2000: Nikkan Sports Film Award: Best Supporting Actor for
- 1981: Award of the Japanese Academy: Best Supporting Actor
- 1981: Blue Ribbon Award: Best Supporting Actor for
- 1974: Mainichi Film Concours: Best Actor for
Awards Nominated
- 2001: Award of the Japanese Academy: Best Supporting Actor for
Footnotes
External links
- Tetsuro Tamba at the Internet Movie Database
- Japanese wikipedia page (also source)
- BBC article, retrieved December 10, 2006.