Tetta Sugimoto

Tetta Sugimoto (杉本 哲太, Sugimoto Tetta; born 21 July 1965) is a Japanese actor.

Tetta Sugimoto
杉本 哲太
Born	(1965-07-21) July 21, 1965 (age 60) Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1981–present
Spouse	Hazuki Kōzu ​ (m. 1992)​

Career

Sugimoto was first a member of a rock band before he debuted as an actor in 1983 in the film Hakujasho.^[1] For that film, he won a Japan Academy Prize best newcomer award.^[2] In addition to his work in film, he has also acted on television, stage, and in television commercials.^[1]

He has appeared in films such as Takeshi Kitano's Outrage and Junji Sakamoto's Strangers in the City.^[3][4]

Filmography

Film

• Hakujasho (1983)
• A Promise (1986)
• Zegen (1987)
• Sukeban Deka The Movie (1987)
• Hope and Pain (1988)
• Luminous Moss (1992)
• The River with No Bridge (1992)
• Tokyo Eyes (1998)
• Tokyo Rampage (1998)
• All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
• Waterboys (2001)
• Alive (2002)
• Samurai Resurrection (2003)
• Socrates in Love (2004)
• Reincarnation (2005)
• Pacchigi! Love & Peace (2007)
• Dororo (2007)
• Departures (2008)
• Ichi (2008)
• 252 (2008)
• John Rabe (2009)
• I Give My First Love to You (2009)
• Zero Focus (2009)
• Outrage (2010)
• Strangers in the City (2010)
• Night People (2013)
• Still the Water (2014)
• Erased (2016)
• The 8-Year Engagement (2017), Mai's father
• The Memory Eraser (2020)
• From Today, It's My Turn!! The Movie (2020)
• Signal the Movie (2021)
• Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar (2022)^[5]
• Akira and Akira (2022)^[6]
• Shylock's Children (2023), Kazuo Furukawa^[7]
• The Village (2023), Maruoka^[8]
• Eternal New Mornings (2023)^[9]
• Hard Days (2023)^[10]
• Kingdom 3: The Flame of Destiny (2023), Dao Jian^[11]
• Out (2023)^[12]
• Matched (2024)^[13]
• Dangerous Cops: Home Coming (2024), Yaginuma^[14]
• City Hunter (2024), Akitaka Ito^[15]
• 366 Days (2025), Kazuma Tamashiro^[16]
• A Girl & Her Guard Dog (2025), Tasuke Senagaki^[17]

Television

• The Abe Clan (1995)
• Water Boys (2003)
• Dark Tales of Japan (2004)
• Haruka Seventeen (2005)
• Kurosagi (2006)
• Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (2007)
• Barefoot Gen (2007)
• Code Blue (2008)
• Ryōmaden (2010)^[18]
• My Dog, My Happiness (2011)
• Man of Destiny (2012), Shigeru Araki^[19]
• Amachan (2013)
• The Emperor's Cook (2015)
• Naotora: The Lady Warlord (2017), Ii Naomori
• Idaten (2019), Dōmei Nagai^[20]
• Scams (2019)
• The Fugitive (2020), Mitsuhiko Miyajima
• Japan Sinks: People of Hope (2021), Shūya Naganuma^[21]
• Bakumatsu Aibō-den (2022), Nagai Naoyuki^[22]
• The 13 Lords of the Shogun (2022), Minamoto no Yukiie^[23]
• Teen Regime (2022), Masaki Sagawa^[24]