[KineJapan] Tsugawa Masahiko

Jasper Sharp jasper_sharp at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 7 12:26:45 EDT 2018


Oh gosh. How sad. I talk about him in some depth in my commentary track for Seijun Suzuki's SMASHING THE 0 LINE, even though he isn't actually in it - just in connection with the vast amount of family connections within that film.

Tsugawa Masahiko appeared alongside his brother Nagato Hiroyuki and his father Sawamura Kunitaro in Nikkatsu’s first widescreen feature  A YOUNG SAMURAI IN THE MOONLIGHT (1957).


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The great actor Tsugawa Masahiko has died at the age of 78. Starting as a child actor (he appears in Sansho Dayu), Tsugawa was known first for his appearances in sun tribe films such as Crazed Fruit, as well as early Oshima films. After appearing in many yakuza films, he was a regular in Itami Juzo's movies, and starred in many TV dramas. He was acting in 4-5 films a year even up to the end. He was a member of the Makino clan that reigned over the Japanese film world: his grandfather was Makino Shozo (the "father" of Japanese film), his mother the actress Makino Tomoko, his father the actor Sawamura Kunitaro, his brother the actor Nagato Hiroyuki. His wife was the actress Asaoka Yukiji, who died in April. Tsugawa also directed films under the name Makino Masahiko, after his uncle Makino Masahiro.

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