1950-04-25 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
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Kodō: The Heartbeat of the Drum | Self | 2014-02-11 |
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歌舞伎名作撰 梅雨小袖昔八丈 髪結新三 | 2013-04-26 | |
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梅ごよみ | 2004-12-01 | |
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Das geschriebene Gesicht | Self | 1995-09-01 |
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天守物語 | 1995-09-09 | |
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Nastazja | Prince Myshkin / Nastasya Filippovna | 1994-04-01 |
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夢二 | Onshu Inamura | 1991-05-31 |
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帝都物語 | Kyoka Izumi | 1988-01-30 |
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夜叉ヶ池 | Yuri / Princess Shirayuki | 1979-10-20 |