Kunie Tanaka
ActingAlso Known As
田中邦卫
Biography
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.
Movies
(268 total)
Sanjuro
as Samurai
Kwaidan
as Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
The Face of Another
as Mentally Ill Man #1
The Bad Sleep Well
as Hitman
The Sword of Doom
as Senkichi
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Obara Nitôhei
Dodes'ka-den
as Hatsutaro Kawaguchi
The Hidden Blade
as Kanbê Katagiri
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Masakichi Makihara
Pitfall
as Man in White Suit
Sword of the Beast
as Tanji
Goyokin
as Hirosuke
The Bullet Train
as Koga's Brother
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Masakichi Makihara
Graveyard of Honor
as Katsuji Ozaki
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
as Storyteller
Evil of Dracula
as Dr. Shimomura
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Masakichi Makihara
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Masakichi Makihara
TV Shows
(14 total)
Kita no kuni kara
as 黑板五郎
Baian the Assassin
as Han-Emon of Otowa
Older brother
as Kintaro
Submersion of Japan
as Tatsuno
The Nagasaki Crime Chronicles
as Yoshitoshi Kogure
The Shin Hasegawa Series
as 蛙ヶ池の仙太
The Sun in Kurobe
as Genkichi
Dazzling Cops
as Nangou Goro
