Masahiko Tsugawa

, born Masahiko Katō (加藤 雅彦 Katō Masahiko; January 2, 1940 – August 4, 2018) was a Japanese actor and director.

Career Tsugawa was born January 2, 1940, in Kyoto, Japan. After acting as a child, he made his major debut at 16 in the Kō Nakahira film Crazed Fruit in 1956.

Tsugawa gained popularity playing villain roles in TV jidaigeki drama series as the Hissatsu series and appeared in films like Otoko wa tsurai yo: Watashi no Tora-san and Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. He became a favorite actor of director Juzo Itami, appearing in nearly all his films since Tampopo.

Tsugawa recently debuted as a director under the pseudonym Makino Masahiko with his film A Hardest Night!!.

Filmography

Director Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky (2009)

Film

Kojiki Taishō (1952), Hanawaka Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Zushiō as a Boy Crazed Fruit (1956) Farewell to Spring (1959) Night and Fog in Japan (1960) The Sun's Burial (1960) Rokudenashi (Good-for-nothing) (1960) Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961) Drunkard's Paradise (1961) The Sun's Burial (1964) Cuban Lover (1969) Otoko wa tsurai yo: Watashi no tora-san (1973) Manon (1981) The Rape (1982) Time and Tide (1984) The Funeral (1984) Tampopo (1985) Hitohira no yuki (1985) A Taxing Woman (1987), Hanamura A Taxing Woman 2 (1988), Hanamura A-Ge-Man: Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990) Heaven and Earth (1990), Takeda Shingen Minbo (1992) The Strange Story of Oyuki (1992) Daibyonin (1993), Dr. Ogata Crest of Betrayal (1994), Ōishi Kuranosuke A Last Note (1995) Supermarket Woman (1996), Goro Hissatsu! Mondo Shisu (1996) Marutai no Onna (1997) Pride: The Fateful Moment (1998), Prime Minister Hideki Tojo Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) The Man in White (2003) What the Snow Brings (2005) The Uchōten Hotel (2006) Death Note (2006), Police Chief Saeki Death Note 2: The Last Name (2006), Police Chief Saeki A Long Walk (2006) Hideo Nakata's Kaidan (2007) Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (2007) Aibō the Movie (2008) Postcard (2011) Strawberry Night (2013) 0.5mm (2014) Lady Maiko (2014) The Boy and the Beast (2015), Sōshi (voice) Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment (2015) Black Widow Business (2016), Kōzō Nakase Ikitoshi Ikerumono (2017), narrator

Television

Ryōma ga Yuku (1968), Kusaka Genzui Shinsho Taikōki (1973) Katsu Kaishū (1974), Tokugawa Yoshinobu Ōgon no Hibi (1978), Tsuda Sōgyū Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983), Ōkubo Nagayasu Ōoku (1983), Tokugawa Tsunayoshi Miyamoto Musashi (1984–85), Takuan Sōhō Hissastu Hashikakenin (1985), Ryūji Hagoku (1985), Keizaburō Suzue Dokuganryū Masamune (1987), Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa bugeichō: Yagyū sandai no ken (1992), Tokugawa Ieyasu Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune (1995), Tokugawa Tsunayoshi Kenpō wa Madaka (1996), Jōji Matsumoto Ieyasu ga mottomo osoreta otoko, Sanada Yukimura (1998), Tokugawa Ieyasu Furuhata Ninzaburō (1999) Aoi (2000), Tokugawa Ieyasu Chūshingura 1/47 (2001), Kira Kōzukenosuke Shounen wa Tori ni Natta (2001) Furuhata Ninzaburō The Spanish Embassy Murder (2004) Sengoku Jieitai: Sekigahara no Tatakai (2006), Tokugawa Ieyasu The Family (2007), Finance minister Nagata Ultraman Ginga (2013), Hotsuma Raido Samurai Rebellion (2013) Akagi (2015), Iwao Washizu Nobunaga Moyu (2016), Kaisen Joki Nemuri Kyoshirō The Final (2018)

Dubbing The Little Prince, the Aviator

Awards and honors

Honor 2006 Awarded Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from H.M. The Emperor of Japan 2014 Awarded Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette from H.M. The Emperor of Japan

Awards 1982 Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actor 1986 Japanese Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor nomination for Flakes of Snow 1987 Mainichi Film Award Best Actor 1987 Hochi Film Award Best Supporting Actor nomination for A Taxing Woman 1988 Japanese Academy Awards Best Actor nomination for Wakarenu Riyu 1988 Japanese Academy Awards Best Supporting actor for A Taxing Woman 1993 Japanese Academy Awards Best Actor nomination The Strange Tale of Oyuki 1994 Nikkan Sports Film Award Best Supporting Actor 1995 Japanese Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor nomination for Lifetime Insecurity 1999 Japanese Academy Awards Best Actor nomination for Puraido: Unmei no toki 2014 Hochi Film Award Best Supporting Actor nomination for 0.5mm