{{Short description|Japanese actor (1928–2006)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Takahiro Tamura | image = Tamura-Takahiro-1.jpg | caption = Takahiro Tamura in 1954 | native_name = 田村 高廣 | native_name_lang = ja | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1928|8|31|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Kyoto]], Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|05|16|1928|08|31|df=yes}} | education = {{unbulleted list|[[Doshisha University]]}} | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1954–2006 | agent = | known_for = {{unbulleted list|''[[The Hoodlum Soldier]]''|''[[Twenty-Four Eyes]]''|''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]''|''[[Muddy River (film)|Muddy River]]''|''[[Tempyō no Iraka]]''|''[[Tasukenin Hashiru]]''}} | height = | father = [[Tsumasaburō Bandō]] | relatives = {{ubl|[[Masakazu Tamura]] (younger brother)|[[Ryō Tamura (actor)|Ryō Tamura]] (younger brother)}} | death_place = [[Tokyo]] | spouse = | children = | awards = | website = }}

{{Nihongo|'''Takahiro Tamura'''|田村高廣|Tamura Takahiro|31 August 1928 – 16 May 2006}} was a Japanese film actor.<ref>役者は一日にしてならず 春日太一 田村亮インタビュー p. 271-273 {{ISBN|978-4093798693}}</ref> He appeared in 100 films between 1954 and 2005. He and his younger brothers [[Masakazu Tamura|Masakazu]] and [[Ryō Tamura (actor)|Ryō]] were known as the three Tamura brothers. They were sons of actor [[Tsumasaburo Bando]].<ref name="Nihon" /><ref name="kinema">{{cite web|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/person.aspx?person_id=86143&key_search=%E7%94%B0%E6%9D%91%E9%AB%98%E5%BB%A3 |title=Takahiro Tamura biography |publisher=[[Kinema Junpo]] |language=ja |access-date=10 January 2021}}</ref>

==Biography== Tamura graduated from [[Doshisha University]].<ref name="kinema"/><ref name="Nihon">日本映画人名事典 1996 下 176-177頁</ref><ref name="kotoba"/> Tamura was working for a trading firm before he started his acting career but he decided to be an actor to repay his father Tsumasaburō's debt.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hochi.news/articles/20210518-OHT1T51263.html?page=1|title=【評伝】三者三様の田村三兄弟...正和さんの陰りを帯びた繊細さは唯一無二|publisher=スポーツ報知|language=ja|access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref> In 1953, he joined [[Shochiku]] and made his film debut with ''Onna no Sono''.<ref name="kinema" /><ref name="Nihon" /><ref name="kotoba" /> In 1965, he won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 16th [[Blue Ribbon Awards]] for his role in ''[[The Hoodlum Soldier]]''.<ref name="kinema" /><ref name="Nihon" /> In 1970, he played the role of [[Mitsuo Fuchida]] in ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]''.<ref name="Gendai" /> Tamura won the [[Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor]] award for his role in ''[[Muddy River (film)|Muddy River]]'' in 1981.<ref name="Gendai" /><ref name="kotoba" />

On television, Tamura appeared in a lot of [[jidaigeki]] television dramas.<ref name="kinema" /><ref name="Gendai" /> In 1964, He appeared for the first time in an [[NHK]] [[taiga drama]], ''[[Akō Rōshi (1964 TV series)|Akō Rōshi]]''. [[NHK]] tapped him the following year for the role of [[Kuroda Yoshitaka]] in ''[[Taikōki (TV series)|Taikōki]]''.<ref name="kotoba" /> Among the jidaigeki series he has starred in [[Hissatsu series]] ''[[Tasukenin Hashiru]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvk-yokohama.com/annai/sukebito.php |title=Tasukenin hashiru |publisher=tvk |language=ja |access-date=19 December 2020}}</ref><ref name="kotoba" />

He died of [[cerebral infarction]] on 19 May 2006.<ref name=kinema/><ref name="Gendai">現代日本映画人名事典 男優篇 キネマ旬報社 2012 P.180-181 {{ISBN|978-4873763873}}</ref> His final film appearance was in ''The Yakiniku mubi: Purukogi'', released in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%97%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B3%E3%82%AE-THE%E7%84%BC%E8%82%89MOVIE-DVD-%E6%9D%BE%E7%94%B0%E9%BE%8D%E5%B9%B3/dp/B000TU8ZNA |title=プルコギ |publisher=アマゾン |language=ja |access-date=19 December 2019}}</ref><ref name="kotoba">{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E7%94%B0%E6%9D%91%20%E9%AB%98%E5%BA%83-1672538 |title=Takahiro Tamura |publisher=kotoba |language=ja |access-date=19 December 2020}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== ===Film=== {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''[[The Garden of Women]]'' (1954) - Sankichi Shimoda, Yoshie's boyfriend * ''[[Twenty-Four Eyes]]'' (1954) - Isokichi * ''Tooi kumo'' (1955) - Keizō Ishizu * ''[[She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum]]'' (1955) * ''[[Farewell to Dream]]'' (1956) - Sudō * ''Namida'' (1956) * ''Kyoraku gonin otoko'' (1956) * ''Sora yukaba'' (1957) - Jirō Yoshino * ''Akuma no kao'' (1957) - Kikuo Furushima * ''[[Times of Joy and Sorrow]]'' (1957) - Mr. Nozu * ''Musume sanbagarasu'' (1957) * ''Ten no me'' (1957) * ''Samurai Nippon'' (1957) * ''Otoko no kiba'' (1957) * ''[[Stakeout (1958 film)|Stakeout]]'' (1958) - Kyūichi Ishii, the murderer * ''Kono ten no niji'' (1958) - Shirō Machimura * ''Haru o matsu hitobito'' (1959) * ''Karatachi nikki'' (1959) * ''Kaze no naka no hitomi'' (1959) - Mr. Terajima * ''[[Thus Another Day]]'' (1959) - Tetsuo Mori * ''Teki wa honnoji ni ari'' (1959) - Oda Nobunaga * ''Asa o yobu kuchibue'' (1959) * ''[[The River Fuefuki]]'' (1960) - Sadahei * ''[[Hatamoto Gurentai]]'' (1960) <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shochiku.co.jp/cinema/database/03379/|title=Hatamoto Gurentai|work=Schochiku|accessdate= 10 August 2021}}</ref> * ''Onna no hashi'' (1961) - Toshiya Kawazu * ''Kako'' (1961) * ''Haitoku no mesu'' (1961) - Hideo Ue * ''Nippon no obaachan'' (1962) - Fukuda * ''[[Mitasareta seikatsu]]'' (1962) - Sadakichi * ''Sanga ari'' (1961) - Yoshio Inoue * ''Yama no sanka: moyuru wakamono tachi'' (1962) * ''Kaachan kekkon shiroyo'' (1962) * ''Utae Wakôdotachi'' (1963) * ''Mushukunin-betsuchô'' (1963) - Yokouchi * ''Kekkonshiki Kekkonshiki'' (1963) - Ryûji Matsuda * ''Tange Sazen: zankoku no kawa'' (1963) * ''Ninja-gari'' (1964) - Tosa Aizawa * ''Nihon kyôkaku-den'' (1964) - Tsurumatsu * ''Revenge'' (1964) - Jubei * ''Goben no tsubaki'' (1964) - Chodayu * ''Tokugawa Ieyasu'' (1965) * ''The Forest of No Escape'' (1965) - Hidemichi Kusuo * ''[[The Hoodlum Soldier]]'' (1965) - Arita * ''Seisaku no tsuma'' (1965) - Seisaku * ''Miyamoto Musahi V'' (1965) - Yagyu Tajima * ''Hoodlum Soldier and the C.O'' (1965) * ''Kanto hamonjo'' (1965) * ''Hana to Ryu'' (1965) * ''Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege'' (1966) - Daijuro Fuma * ''[[Yojōhan monogatari: Shōfu shino]]'' (1966) - Tadashi Yoshioka * ''Nyohan hakai'' (1966) - Hinata * ''Hoodlum Soldier Deserts Again'' (1966) * ''Sora ippai no namida'' (1966) * ''[[The Kii River]]'' (1966) – Shintani Keisaku, Hana's husband * ''Heitai yakuza datsugoku'' (1966) * ''[[Shiroi Kyotō|The Great White Tower]]'' (1966) - Shûji Satomi - Assistant professor * ''Shin heitai yakuza'' (1966) * ''Heitai yakuza daidassō'' (1966) * ''Hana To Ryu: Do Kâiwan No Kêttō'' (1966) * ''Satogashi ga kowareru toki'' (1967) - Katsumi Gorai * ''Daraku suru onna'' (1967) - Miyoshi * ''Heitai yakuza nagurikomi'' (1967) * ''Utage'' (1967) - Asaichi Isobe * ''Heitai yakuza ore ni makasero'' (1967) * ''Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack'' (1967) * ''Âa Kimi ga Ai'' (1967) - Yûichi Ono * ''[[Nemuri Kyōshirō|Sleepy Eyes of Death: Hell Is a Woman]]'' (1968) - Naruse Tatsuma * ''Nemureru bijo'' (1968) - Eguchi * ''Ôoku emaki'' (1968) - Shogun * ''Gion Matsuri'' (1968) - Sukematsu * ''Heitai yakuza godatsu'' (1968) * ''Keimusho yaburi'' (1969) * ''[[Red Lion (film)|Red Lion]]'' (1969) - Sōzō Sagara * ''[[Shinsengumi (1969 film)|Shinsengumi]]'' (1969) - Koshitarō Itō * ''Akumyo ichiban shobu'' (1969) - Masakichi * ''Mushyô yaburi'' (1969) * ''[[Men and War|Men and War Part I]]'' (1970)<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/37531/|title= 戦争と人間|access-date= October 12, 2023|work= eiga.com}}</ref> * ''[[Tora! Tora! Tora!]]'' (1970) - Lt. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida * ''Tenkan no abarembo'' (1970) * ''Tekkaba bojô'' (1970) * ''Senketsu no kiroku'' (1970) * ''Shin heitai yakuza: Kasen'' (1972) - Arita * ''[[Hanzo the Razor]]'' (1972) - Harada Kahei * ''Seigen-ki'' (1973) - Minoru Oyama * ''[[The Twilight Years]]'' (1973) - Nobuyoshi Tachibana * ''[[Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon]]'' (1975) * ''[[The Last Samurai (1974 film)|The Last Samurai]]'' (1974) - Ikemoto Mohei * ''Tsuma to Onna no Aida'' (1976) - Masayuki * ''[[Death at an Old Mansion]]'' (1976) - Ichiyanagi Kenzō * ''Furenzoku satsujin jiken'' (1977) - Senbei Yashirō * ''[[Empire of Passion]]'' (1978) - Gisaburō * ''[[Never Give Up (1978 film)|Never Give Up]]'' (1978) - Urakawa, pressman * ''Ore-tachi no kokyogaku'' (1979) * ''Shōdō satsujin: Musuko yo'' (1979) - Hirayama * ''Jigoku no mushi'' (1979) - Danjurō * ''[[Nichiren (film)|Nichiren]]'' (1979) - Nukina Shigetada * ''Dōran'' (1980) - Kanzaki * ''[[Tempyō no Iraka]]'' (1980) - [[Jianzhen]] * ''The Young Rebels'' (1980) * ''Harukanaru Sōro'' (1980) - Toyota Sakichi * ''[[Muddy River (film)|Muddy River]]'' (1981) - Shinpei Itakura * ''Himeyuri no Tō'' (1982) - Lt. Col. Sasaki * ''Dai Nippon teikoku'' (1982) - Sada Shimomura * ''Kare no ootobai, kanojo no shima'' (1986) - Kouichiroh Shiraishi * ''Katayoku dake no tenshi'' (1986) * ''Oedipus no Yaiba'' (1986) - Shuehei Osako * ''[[The Sea and Poison (film)|The Sea and Poison]]'' (1986) - Professor Hashimoto * ''[[Hachiko Monogatari]]'' (1987) - Furukawa * ''[[Itazu Kuma]]'' (1987) - Ginzō the Hunter * ''[[The Silk Road (1988 film)|The Silk Road]]'' (1988) - Tsao Yanhui * ''226'' (1989) - Sohei Yuasa * ''Senba-zuru'' (1989) - Doctor * ''[[Toki rakujitsu]]'' (1992) - Ryutarō * ''[[The Setting Sun (film)|Rakuyô]]'' (1992) - Yamashiro * ''Watashi o daite soshite kisu shite'' (1992) - Shigeki Kabayama * ''Gekko no natsu'' (1993) * ''[[Crest of Betrayal]]'' (1994) - Kôzukenosuke Kira * ''[[Sleeping Man (film)|Sleeping Man]]'' (1996) - Denjihei * ''Sanctuary: The Movie'' (1996) * ''Hisai'' (1998) - Yoshio Miyarabe * ''Chinpao chin ho-teki koji'' (1999) * ''Komugironotenshi sugare oi'' (1999) - Kumatarō * ''I Love Friends'' (2001) * ''[[Letters from the Mountains]]'' (2002) - Shigenaga Kōda * ''Jōhatsu Tabinikki'' (2003) * ''I Love Peace'' (2003) - Kashiwabara * ''The Yakiniku Mubi: Purukogi'' (2007) - Kan * ''Kuchita Teoshi Guruma'' (produced in 1984 but released in 2014)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://eiga.com/movie/80116/ |title=朽ちた手押し車|publisher=映画.COM|access-date=19 December 2019}}</ref> - Yasuda Tadao {{div col end}}

===Television=== *''[[Akō Rōshi (1964 TV series)|Akō Rōshi]]'' (1964) - Takada Gunbei *''[[Taikōki (TV series)|Taikōki]]'' (1965) - [[Kuroda Kanbei]] *''[[Daichūshingura]]'' (1971) - Takadaya Gunbei *''[[Haru no Sakamichi (TV series)|Haru no Sakamichi]]'' (1971) - Takuan *''[[Tasukenin Hashiru]]'' (1973) - Nakayama Bunjūrō *''[[The Water Margin (1973 TV series)|The Water Margin]]'' (1973) - [[Chai Jin]] *''[[Onihei Hankachō (1975 TV series)|Onihei Hankachō]]'' (1975) - Kishii Samanosuke *''[[On'yado Kawasemi]]'' (1980-1983) - Kamibayashi *''[[Kawaite sōrō ]]'' (1984) - [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]] *''Miyamoto Musashi'' (1984–85) - [[Matsui Okinaga|Nagaoka Sado]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/84-wed.html|title= 宮本武蔵|access-date= 27 July 2021|work= Haiyaku Jiten}}</ref> *''[[Ōedo Sōsamō]]'' (1990-91) - [[Matsudaira Sadanobu]] *''[[Onihei Hankachō (1989 TV series)|Onihei Hankachō]]'' Season2 episode12 Guest starring (1991) - Amagoi Shozaemon *''Kemonomichi'' (2006) - Doctor

==Honours== * [[Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor]] (1981) * [[Medals of Honor (Japan)|Medal with Purple Ribbon]] (1991) * [[Order of the Rising Sun|Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette]] (1999)

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDB name|0848796}} * [https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/jinbutsu/detail.cgi?das_id=D0009070039_00000 Takahiro Tamura on NHK]

{{Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor}} {{Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor}} {{Authority control}}

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