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Kunitarō Sawamura (沢村 国太郎, Sawamura Kunitarō, 1 June 1905 – 26 November 1974) was a Japanese kabuki and film actor. Career. Sawamura, whose original name was Yūichi Katō, was born in Tokyo to the kabuki actor Denzō Takeshiba.
Kunitarô Sawamura was born on 1 June 1905 in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Akôjô (1952), Mazô (1938) and Kurama Tengu (1938). He died on 26 November 1974 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Actor
- June 1, 1905
- Kunitarô Sawamura
- November 26, 1974
Kabuki actors Bandō Minosuke and Sawamura Kunitaro are difficult to pinpoint precisely because, like many performers, they used stage names. Not only that, but names could be inherited or co-opted, thus allowing a theater name to subsist for generations.
Sawamura Kunitarô I was an outstanding onnagata actor, who spent most of his career (second half of the eighteenth century) in Kamigata, reaching the jô-jô-kichi and goku-jô-jô-kichi ranks in 1777 and 1790.
He took the name of Sawamura Kunitarô IV in October 1924 at the Imperial Theater and left the koshibai Kabuki world to become a movie actor in 1929 by joining the Makino Eiga company. He joined the Tôkatsu movie company in 1931 and the Nikkatsu in 1932.
Sawamura Kunitarô II was a talented onnagata actor, who achieved fame for himself in Ôsaka and Kyôto from the end of the Bunka era to the beginning of the Tenpô era, reaching the prestigious jô-jô-kichi rank in 1827. He spent 20 years in Kamigata ôshibai, without going on tour to Edo.
Sadako Sawamura (沢村貞子, Sawamura Sadako, 11 November 1908 – 16 August 1996) was a Japanese stage and film actress who appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1976.
