Kabuki actor and the most popular and celebrated onnagata an actor specializing in female roles currently on stage He has also acted in a handful of films Born in 1950 Shinichi Morita was adopted by Morita Kanya XIV and made his first appearance on stage at the age of seven under the name Bandō Kinoji At a shūmei naming ceremony in 1964 he became the fifth to take the name Bandō Tamasaburō his adoptive father had been the fourth In 1993 he directed the film Yearning which was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival
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