Kunie Tanaka

Works
Actor (15),
Birthday
1932-11-23

Kunie Tanaka - known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Sanjuro» (1962), «Kwaidan» (1965), «The Bullet Train» (1975), «300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins» (1975), «New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1» (1974),

Kunie Tanaka (田中 邦衛 Tanaka Kunie, November 23, 1932 - March 24, 2021) was a Japanese actor. He had his first notable role in 1960 as a thug in Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well, and worked with the director again on Sanjuro. Tanaka is well known for his roles in Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza films, namely the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series. He also appeared in Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan.

He has been nominated for five Japanese Academy Awards, winning the Best Supporting Actor statuette for Gakko in 1993. He appeared as the lecherous Shinjiro Ishiyama, nicknamed Aodaishō, the antagonist of the hero, played by Yūzō Kayama, in all of the Wakadaishō series of films. The character Kizaru, from Eiichiro Oda's manga series One Piece, is modeled after Tanaka.

The most significant works of Kunie Tanaka

Sanjuro (1962)
Character: Samurai
The Sword of Doom (1966)
Character: Senkichi
The Face of Another (1966)
Character: Mentally Ill Man #1
Kwaidan
Kwaidan (1965)
Character: Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Character: Hitman
Dodes'ka-den (1970)
Character: Hatsutaro Kawaguchi
The Hidden Blade (2004)
Character: Kanbê Katagiri
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Character: Masakichi Makihara - Leading
The Bullet Train (1975)
Character: Koga's Brother


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