1. Masakazu Tamura was a Japanese film and theatre actor.
21 Facts About Masakazu Tamura
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Masakazu Tamura was born 1 August 1943 in Kyoto, Japan to Japanese actor Tsumasaburo Bando.
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Tsumasaburo Bando died when Tamura was only nine years old.
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Masakazu Tamura had been thinking of becoming an actor in the future since he was a child.
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Masakazu Tamura was thus trained in fighting with swords and more traditional forms of Japanese theatre like Kabuki and Nihon Buyo.
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Masakazu Tamura's first leading film role was Kono koenaki sakebi directed by Hirokazu Ichimura in 1965.
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Masakazu Tamura left Shochiku in 1966 and established his own agency.
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Masakazu Tamura's breakthrough came in 1970 after landing a role in the television series Fuyu no Tabi on TBS.
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From 1970s, Masakazu Tamura focused predominately on television with occasional film appearances including Yasuharu Hasebe's film Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701's Grudge Song and Yasuo Furuhata's film Nihon no Fixer.
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Masakazu Tamura appeared in many period dramas such as Naruto Hicho on NHK and most of his roles were skilled swordsmen.
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Masakazu Tamura played the role of "Nemuri Kyoshiro" and won great popularity in 1972; it is Tamura's most famous role in jidaigeki.
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Masakazu Tamura played the same role on the stage in 1973 and 1981.
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From 1963 to 1967, Masakazu Tamura appeared in the Taiga drama 5 years in a row.
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Masakazu Tamura appeared in the Taiga drama in Haru no Sakamichi and Shin Heike Monogatari.
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In 1993, Masakazu Tamura played the role of "Ogami Itto" in Akira Inoue's film Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict by Kazuo Koike's strong request.
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Masakazu Tamura is most famous for his role as the polite and highly idiosyncratic police detective "Furuhata Ninzaburo" in a self-titled drama by Japanese playwright Koki Mitani.
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The drama started in 1994 and Masakazu Tamura continued playing Detective Furuhata until 2006.
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In 2007, Masakazu Tamura appeared in the film for the first in 14 years in Last Love.
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Masakazu Tamura won "Outstanding Actor" at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for his work in the TV special Ah, You're Really Gone Now in 2009.
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Masakazu Tamura appeared in several television dramas related to Chushingura and finally he played the role of "Oishi Kuranosuke" for the first time in the special drama Chushingura Sono Otoko Oishi Kuranosuke in 2010.
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Masakazu Tamura died of heart failure on 3 April 2021 at the age of 77.