On May 18, according to Japanese media reports, the famous Japanese actor Masakazu Tamura died of heart failure in a hospital in Tokyo on April 3 at the age of 77.
Previously, Tamura had been plagued by a family-inherited heart attack and had undergone heart surgery many times.
The announcement of the news after a gap of more than a month is in line with his wish that "I want to die quietly" before his death.
Masakazu Tamura is well known to Chinese audiences for starring in the mystery drama "Renzaburo Furuhata".
Tamura plays a charming uncle who is intelligent but has never fired a gun, whose cunning humor often teases criminals, and who behaves elegantly and respects women.
Therefore, the domestic television station introduced the play and translated the title of the play into "Gentleman Criminal Police".
Tamura's unique tone and gestures in the play quickly became popular and became a social phenomenon.
From the 3rd season of Fuji TV in April 1994 to the 24th year of the final spin-off episode "Furuhata Junior High School Students" in 2008, this long-lived drama has a total of 43 episodes of wonderful stories (3 seasons of this chapter + special edition), often maintaining a super high rating of 20% or even more than 30%.
Tamura himself also won the Best Actor award at the Japanese Drama Academy Awards in 1994 and 1996 for the drama.
Due to the show's popularity, many Japanese A-list stars have participated in the series and played criminals.
For example, in the opening chapter of the series, Nakamori Akira, who plays a beautiful writer who kills scum men,
Takuya Kimura, who plays the bomber and contributes to the first slap on the screen;
The only American travel murder criminal in the whole series, Nanami Suzuki,
There are also SMAP, Yasuke Bandong, Masaharu Fukuyama, Naoko Matsushima, Akashi family saury, and many more.
It can be said that it is "the iron-beaten Tamura, the star criminal of the flowing water".
Masakazu Tamura was born on August 1, 1943, the son of The famous early Japanese period drama actor Saburō Sakato.
When his father died of illness at the age of 9, Tamura decided to follow his father's path and become an actor.
In 1961, at the age of 18, Tamura made his debut in the movie "Forever Man" and began his acting career.
Since then, he has successively starred in films such as "Foolish Love" (1967, Hozo Tsukimura), "Wind Forest Volcano ( 1969, Hiroshi Inagaki), "Underworld Singing" (1970, Hozo Tsujimura) and so on.
In 1972, Tamura starred in the masterpiece of the Japanese "Kenho" novel "Sleep Crazy Shiro", which showed a unique beauty in the fight scenes, and was "the most perfect crazy Shiro actor" by the original author Shibata Shiro.
Since the 1980s, Tamura's work has focused on TV dramas, and he has starred in a series of popular business cards, such as "Students in Our Class", "Daddy is the Anchor", "Furuhata Renzaburō" series, and so on.
Tamura is known for hardly sending out NG when shooting and not bringing the script to the shooting scene. Takuya Kimura, who has worked with him, once said that during the filming of The SP of Furuta Renzaburo Furuta, in which all members of SMAP participated, Tamura completed the more than 10-page script without delay.
In 2018, Tamura played the lead role in "The Final", which was the return and end of his debut nearly half a century after the role.
After that, he disappeared from the stage and enjoyed a peaceful life with his wife until his death.
Masakazu Tamura's death sparked widespread mourning in Japanese showbiz circles and the public.
Takuya Kimura said, "Please rest slowly, because you are always strict with yourself." ”
Ryoko Hiromi recalled: "Mr. Tamura always behaved beautifully and always welcomed me with a gentle smile. ”
Nanami Suzuki said, "Mr. Masakazu Tamura, you're back in the sky, aren't you?" In the locker room of a theater full of bouquets, in cold New York, in the corner of a dusty, dimly lit studio, in the same space miraculously happy memories, full of sweetness and pain. I extend all my respect and gratitude. ”
All the way good, forever "Furuhata Renzaburō", forever Tamura Masakazu.