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...Setting the Record Straight • Playing Dead Our May 29 Milestone on the death of Japanese actor Takahiro Tamura misidentified his father as Tamasaburo Bando. The correct name should be Tsumasaburo Bando, who was a screen legend in the 1920s and '30s. Tamasaburo Bando is a current Kabuki actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...DIED. Takahiro Tamura, 77, prolific Japanese film and television star; in Tokyo. Born into an acting family?his father, Tsumasaburo Bando, was a legend of early samurai films?Tamura appeared in more than 90 roles, starring in the World War II melodrama Nijushi no Hitomi (Twenty-Four Eyes), which won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1955, and in the 1970 U.S.-Japan co-production, Tora! Tora! Tora!, about the attack on Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

...WNET in cooperation with RM Arts and BBC-TV. Dancing has its pleasures, both small and large. In one charming vignette, a great-bellied guru beats time as he teaches a tiny girl some basic gestures of Indian classical dance. Much of a segment on stage performance compares Bando Tamasaburo, a Kabuki star who excels in female roles, with Larissa Lezhnina, a dazzling young ballerina of Russia's Kirov Ballet. In surprisingly complementary ways, their performances -- his in a dance-drama called Dojoji, hers in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty -- embody Eastern and Western ideals of womanhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rituals And Rhythms | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Compared with Tamasaburo Bando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 1, 1983 | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

Dustin Hoffman was a raw ingenue in Tootsie. Though only 33, Bando is already a master onnagata, a man who plays female roles in the centuries-old art of Kabuki. So apposite are his opposite-sex portrayals that he is the object of study by aspiring actresses and real-life geishas seeking to refine their feminine ways. "To act as an onnagata, "he says, "is to try to create an ideal; what I as a man would consider to be the ideal woman." Bando has also done non-Kabuki work, including heralded performances as Lady Macbeth and Desdemona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 1, 1983 | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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