Famous People with Name Tsutsumi

Shinichi Tsutsumi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Shinichi Tsutsumi: a Japanese stage and screen actor. He won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2005 for Always Sanchome no Yuhi.

Machiko Tsutsumi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Machiko Tsutsumi: a Japanese entrepreneur.She claims that she was born February 28, 1961 in Minatoku, Tokyo, and her father is an executive of a listed company. But actually she was born in Edogawaku, Tokyo, as a daughter of an owner of a small laundry. Her real name is Tsurumi Masako (????). After graduated of an evening high school in 1977, she worked as a waitress, an office worker, and a bunny girl of a night club. When she got a part-time job in a company called Shichiyô Kikaku (????), she had an affair with the owner, Kubota Yasuo (????).

Yasujiro Tsutsumi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yasujiro Tsutsumi: was a Japanese entrepreneur, politician, and legendary business tycoon who founded a dynasty which became the wealthiest, most influential family of 20th century Japan.Yasujiro Tsutsumi was born on 16 March 1889 in the rural farming village of Yagiso, Shiga Prefecture. The Tsutsumi family were held in great respect and regard, serving as village elders and headmen. However, little is known about their antecedents or origins, and there is no evidence that the traditional extended family unit ever existed in their case. Yasujiro's father, Yujiro, died of typhoid fever in 1893, when Yasujiro was four, also leaving his wife, Miwo, and a daughter, Fusako, who had been born in 1891. Following his father's premature death, Yasujiro's mother left to return to her family, never to be heard from again,

Yukihiko Tsutsumi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yukihiko Tsutsumi: a Japanese television and film director. He began directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nihon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, Crescendo, from which he works independently. His first television drama on Nihon Television was called Kora! Tonnezuru and ran from 1985 to 1989.

Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi: a Japanese cellist. He started to study music under the tutorship of Hideo Saito, founder of the Tokyo Conservatory.Tsutsumi made his debut as cellist when he was 12 years old with the Tokyo Philharmonic and at 18 he started his first concert tour as soloist throughout India and Europe. He was granted a Fullbright scholarship to study at Indiana University with Janos Starker.His concert performances have taken him around the world with the most important orchestras (ORTF, Berlin Radio Symphony, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Rotterdam, London, Chicago, Indianapolis, Toronto and Vancouver philharmonic Orchestras, etc) and he has participated in numerous festivals like the Algoma Fall, Banff, Guelph Spring, Notario Place, Stradtford and Ravinia.