Essay 2-02b: Satoshi Tsumabuki

There are a lot of movies all over the world. Needless to say, there are a lot of movie actors all over the world too. One of the wonderful actors is Satoshi Tsumabuki. He is wonderful Japanese movie star. He appeared "Subarasii Hibi (Wonderful Days)"for the first time. Also, there are a lot of popular drams which he appears. For example, "Black Jack ni Yorosiku (Give my Regards to Black Jack)" and "Tenchijin" of historical drama by NHK. However, he appears not only movies but also TV dramas. Almost all Japanese know about him. Some foreigner know too. He is very famous and popular.

One of the movies that he appears is “Dororo”. The movie’s original is Osamu Tezuka’s comic. This story is about Japanese monster. The movie is about muromachi era. Satoshi Tsumabuki performed the main charactor, Hyakkimaru. He was taken his 48 body parts by monsters, so he is blind and deaf. He got alternative 48 body parts by his father, but they are fake, so he didn’t feel pain. His father is not really father. It is not clear who is his father until the movie’s last. In order to take his taken 48 body parts back, he fight battle with the 48 monsters. If he wins the battle, he gets one of his taken body parts. When the taken body parts come back his body, he feels very big pain, but he wants to get all his body parts, so he fight battles very hard. He is very strong. He got only 24 body parts in this movie. It is half body parts, so it may have second series of this movie.

Satoshi Tsumabuki performed blind and deaf man. In addition, he performed the man who lost 48 body parts. It is very hard to perform such a man. However, he performed this man perfectly. He gets right into Hyakkimaru’s part, so as if he is really blind and deaf. In addition, he seemed really lost hisbody parts. It is very surprising and wonderful.

One of the popular movie that he appears is "Akunin/Villain" in 2010. This movie's original author is Shuichi Yoshida. The main tame of movie is "Who is the actual villain?" The story of this movie is that Yuichi of a murderer who Satoshi Tsumabuki performed escapes from society with a woman. Yuichi wanted to meet the person who he really loves, so he enrolled in online dating Web site. Finally, he met only one woman, Mitsuyo he really loves, but he had terrible secret that he killed a woman before. Yuichi and Mitsuyo decided to escape together without giving himself up to the police. While they ran, they made love stronger, but they were driven into a corner. After their hegira finished in the end, they considered that “who is the actual villain?” By this movie, the audience becomes to think of true love and actual evil.

Satoshi Tsumabuki performed both of actual villain and really good person very well. It was difficult to perform this character, but he could do very well. In addition, he won the Best Actor of Japan Academy Award by this movie in 2011. That is to say, a lot of people admit his ability as wonderful actor.

Like this, he can perform action movie and the person who is murderer, pure and humane. As if he changes himself each movie. He can get right into each movie’s parts, so his performance makes movies improve more than. In addition, he won a lot of prizes at other movie awards. For example, he won the Rookie of Golden Arrow Award in 2002, the Best Actor of Blue Ribbon Award in 2010, and the Best Supporting Actor of Japan Academy Award in 2014.He won a lot of other Awards. It is very fantastic! He won the prize only Japan yet, but he will be admitted around the world in the future.

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Reference

Wikipedia (2014, October 2). 妻夫木聡 [Satoshi Tsumabuki]. Retrieved from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/妻夫木聡 

Wikipedia (2014, August 19). どろろ [DORORO]. Retrieved from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/どろろ (映画)
Wikipedia (2014, September 16). 悪人 [Akunin/Villain]. Retrieved from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/悪人 (小説)