
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

as Onshu Inamura

as Kyoka Izumi
1988

as Yuri / Princess Shirayuki
1979

as Onshu Inamura
1991

1995

as Self
1995

as Prince Myshkin / Nastasya Filippovna
1994

2009

2013

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as Self
2014
2009

as Self
2014

2013

2009

2004

1995

as Self
1995

as Prince Myshkin / Nastasya Filippovna
1994

as Onshu Inamura
1991

as Kyoka Izumi
1988

as Yuri / Princess Shirayuki
1979
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