- Ryō Tamura
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May 24 ,1946 is a Japanese actor fromKyoto . His father was silent-film starTsumasaburo Bando . With his older brothers, the late Takahiro and Masakazu, he is one of the Three Tamura Brothers. Another older brother, Toshimaro, is active in show business as a manager.Ryō made his cinema debut in the 1966
Hiroshi Inagaki film "Abare Goemon" starringToshiro Mifune . He also appeared in the 1989Hiroshi Teshigahara film "Rikyū " withRentarō Mikuni in the title role.Since his debut he has taken roles in both "
jidaigeki " and modern films and television. He portrayedŌoka Tadasuke for the final six years of the long-running prime-time television series "Abarenbō Shōgun ," replacingTadashi Yokouchi . A repeating modern role has been Detective Sōsuke Kariya in two-hour dramas costarringMiki Fujitani .Tamura played
Tōdō Takatora in the 2000 NHKtaiga drama "Aoi Tokugawa Sandai ." The network also tapped him for the 2004 miniseries "Saigo noChūshingura " in which he portrayedYanagisawa Yoshiyasu .References
*"This article incorporates material from 田村亮 (俳優) ("Tamura Ryō (haiyū)") in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved
February 11 ,2008 ."External links
* [http://tamura-ryo.com/eg/index.html Individual web site]
* [http://www.tamura-kyoudai.com/ Tamura Kyodai Official Web Site]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848793/ Ryo Tamura] at IMDB
* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0292930.htm 田村亮] at JMDB
* [http://www.nhk.or.jp/drama/archives/saigono/index.html "Saigo no Chūshingura"] at NHK
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