Occupation Actor Years active 1955–present | Name Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Role Actor | |
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Movies Whisper of the Heart, Intentions of Murder, Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of, Why Not?, Band of Ninja Similar People Raita Ryu, Masaya Oki, Shohei Imamura, Yorie Yamashita, Yoshifumi Kondo | ||
The Red Headed League - We are spies...
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi (露口 茂, Tsuyuguchi Shigeru, born April 8, 1932 in Tokyo) is a Japanese actor.
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Biography
Tsuyuguchi was born in Tokyo and raised in Ehime. He attended Ehime University, but withdrew before completing his degree and joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1955. His career as a screen actor started in 1959.
He came to prominence playing the thief in Shohei Imamura's Unholy Desire. He became one of Imamura's favorite actors, appearing in four of Imamura's other films such as Eijanaika in 1981, but he refused to play a role in Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001).He won white bronze Award for his roles in Woman of the Lake and Shoufu Shino in 1966. He appeared in many jidaigeki television dramas, his most prominent roles in jidaigeki being Hyōgo Furukawa in the first season of Mito Kōmon and Fujiwara no Hidesato in the taiga drama Kaze to Kumo to Niji to. In Kaze to Kumo to Niji to, Tsuyuguchi played an important role that killed leading character Taira no Masakado in the final episode.
He is best known for his part in Taiyo ni Hoero!, one of the most famous dramas in Japanese television history. In Taiyo ni Hoero!, he played "Yama san" for 14 years. He also portrayed the voice of the "Baron Humbert von Gikkingen" in the original Japanese version of the Studio Ghibli anime film Whisper of the Heart. From the late 1980s to the mid 1990s Tsuyuguchi appeared a lot of two-hour special dramas. Tsuyuguchi played lead role in Morimura Seiichi no shûchakueki 1-4, it is relatively famous in Japan.
He stopped acting in the late 1990s and announced his retirement in 2013.