BandÅ TamasaburÅ V
Bandō Tamasaburo V. (Japanese坂 东 玉三郎(5代 目), Bandō Tamasaburo Godaime actually: Shin'ichi Morita (守 田 伸 一), born April 25, 1950 in Tokyo) is a Japanese Kabuki players.
Life
He is in Japan as a leading player in Kabuki female roles ( onnagata ), although he himself does not come from a traditional Kabuki family. However, he was adopted by the Kabuki players Morita Kan'ya XIV (1907-1975), who was the fourth Tamasaburo Bandō. He first came in 1957 under the stage name Kinoji Bandō on and in 1964 the fifth Bandō Tamasaburo (ie Tamasaburo Bandō V. ).
He went abroad in various genres, for example in 1988 in a gala ballet by Maurice Béjart, 1984 in performance of Sagi Musume The Heron Girl in the Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala, and 1989 in the play Nastasya by Andrzej Wajda. In 2008 he came to The Peony Pavilion in Beijing in the Kunqu opera. In 1985, he appeared in various U.S. cities and 1986 in Paris. In Japan, he plays especially in the Kabuki-za Theater in Tokyo. He was director of Kodo One Earth Tour Special 2003 and occurred at the 25 - years 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 spirit 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 film "Longing " ( Yume no onna ) 1993 took part in the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
He has performed with Yo- Yo Ma in 1996 at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, where he danced for Cello Suite No. 5 by Johann Sebastian Bach.
In 2011 he received the Kyoto Prize, in 1997 the Mainichi Art Award the magazine publisher Mainichi, 1997 Montblanc Arts Patronage de la Culture Award in 2009 and the Kikuchi Kan Prize of the Society for the Promotion of Japanese literature. In 1991 he became Chevalier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, he was ( kokuhô ningen ) in Japan Living National Treasure.