Real name: Bandô Terusato

Guild: Otowaya

Line number: GODAIME (V)

Birthday: 29 June 1976

Connections:

Great-great-great-great-grandfathers: Onoe Kikugorô III, Ichimura Uzaemon XI

Great-great-great-grandfather: Ichimura Takenojô V

Great-great-grandfather: Onoe Kikugorô V

Great-grandfather: Bandô Hikosaburô VI

Grandfather: Ichimura Uzaemon XVII

Father: Bandô Hikosaburô VIII

Brother: Bandô Kametoshi

Career:

December 1981: he makes his first appearance on stage at the National Theatre, playing in the "Terakoya" scene of the classic "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami".

May 1982: he takes the name of Bandô Kamesaburô V at the Kabukiza, playing the role of Kamemaru in the drama "Yodogimi Jôshi".

March 2009: Kabuki adaptation by the famous stage director Ninagawa Yukio of Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night", which is titled "Ninagawa Jûniya", from the 24th to the 28th of March 2009 in London (UK) at the Barbican Theater; Kamesaburô plays the role of Saô Kakubei (the Head Officer) [more details]. The same play is staged with the same casting in June 2009 at the Shimbashi Embujô and in July 2009 at the Shôchikuza.

Comments:

Bandô Kamesaburô V is a young and promising tachiyaku of the Otowaya guild.
[More data in Japanese]

Official internet website: http://www.bankame.isao.net/

The mon of Bandô Kamesaburô V