Bandō Tamasaburō V.

Bandō Tamasaburō V. (center), 2012

Bandō Tamasaburō V. ( Japanese 坂 東 玉三郎 (5 代 目) , Bandō Tamasaburō godaime actually: Shin'ichi Morita ( 守 田 伸 一 ); born April 25, 1950 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese kabuki actor.

Life

He is considered a leading kabuki actor in female roles ( onnagata ) in Japan , although he does not come from a traditional kabuki family himself. But he was adopted by the Kabuki actor Morita Kan'ya XIV (1907-1975), who was the fourth Tamasaburō Bandō . He first appeared in 1957 under the stage name Kinoji Bandō and in 1964 became the fifth Bandō Tamasaburō (also Tamasaburō Bandō V.).

He has also appeared in various genres abroad, for example in a ballet gala by Maurice Béjart in 1988, in 1984 in the performance of Sagi Musume The Heron Girl in the Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala and in 1989 in the play Nastasja by Andrzej Wajda . In 2008 he performed in the Kunqu opera The Peony Pavilion in Beijing . In 1985 he performed in various US cities and in 1986 in Paris. In Japan he mainly plays in the Kabuki theater in Tokyo. He was the director of the Kodo One Earth Tour Special in 2003 and appeared on its 25th anniversary in 2006.

His kabuki roles include Princess Shiranui in Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki ("The moon like a drawn bow") by Yukio Mishima (1969), Princess Sakura in Sakurahime Azuma Bunsho ("The Scarlet Princess of Edo") (1975), the Masaoka in Meiboku Sendai Hagi ("The Contested Succession") (1995), the ghost of the heron in Sagi Musume , Princess Tomi in Tenshu Monogatari ("The Castle Tower "), Akoya in Dannoura Kabuto Gunki ("The Courtesan Akoya"), Princess Taema in Narukami ("God of Thunder") and Agemaki in Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura ("Flower of Edo").

In 1991 he made his first film, Gekashitsu ("Operating Room "). His 1993 film “Sehnsucht” ( Yume no onna ) took part in the 43rd Berlinale.

He performed with Yo-Yo Ma in 1996 at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, where he danced to Johann Sebastian Bach's cello suite No. 5 .

In 2011 he received the Kyoto Prize , in 1997 the Mainichi Art Prize of the Mainichi magazine publisher , the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award in 1997 and the Kikuchi Kan Prize of the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Literature in 2009 . In 1991 he became Chevalier de l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . In 2012 he was named Japan's Living National Treasure ( ningen kokuhō ).

Web links

• Bandō Tamasaburō V. in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• biography
• Imamori Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bandō is the surname, according to the Japanese naming convention it is placed at the beginning
2. ↑ Japan Daily Press 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.