Tsutsumi Shinichi is known primarily as a stage actor. It appears after "Yamato nadeshiko" (2000) he has gained much attention in Japan, though his performance in _Pure (1996)_ , in 1996, garnered good attention for his sensitive portrayal of the orphaned journalist Sawatari Toru. Tsutsumi trained for the stage with the theatre project Tokyo in the early '90s after leaving the JAC where he had met his mentors, 'Hiroyuki Ada' and Tamasaburo Bando, through whom he drew much inspiration ...[Read Story]