Kunie Tanaka
Acting
Born 1932-11-23
Died 2021-03-24
Toki, Gifu, Japan
292 credits
Golden Arrow Award 1
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette 1
Medal with Purple Ribbon 1
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor 1
Awards
Won 1 Golden Arrow Award Award
Golden Arrow Award 1 won
- — Golden Arrow Award Won
The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette 1 won
- 2006 The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette Won
Medal with Purple Ribbon 1 won
- 1999 Medal with Purple Ribbon Won
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor 1 won
- 1987 Best Actor Won
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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.
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Filmography
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Acting
41 credits
From the Northern Country
Submersion of Japan
Sanjuro
The Bullet Train
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Kwaidan
The Sword of Doom
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Face of Another
The Bad Sleep Well
Red Diamond
The Nagasaki Crime Chronicles
Sir Galahad in Campus
The Battle of Okinawa
Dodes'ka-den
The Shin Hasegawa Series
Graveyard of Honor
The Shootout
Station
Older brother
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
The House of Wedlock
May Love Be Restored
The Inferno
The Return of the Newshound and the Lady Cop
Pitfall
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Tenchu!
Goyokin
Ronin-gai
Manhunt
The Sun in Kurobe
Live Again Tomorrow
Yomigaeri
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Take Me Out to the Snowland
The Sun's Burial
Aoki Ookami Narukichiomoase no Shougai
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Dazzling Cops
Never Give Up
Other credits
19 credits
White Love
Blood on the Sea
Rice Curry
The Merciless Trap
The love song of farewell later
Debt of Honor
My Sons
The Password is Courage
Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
Troubleman Laughs and Kills
Nogare no machi
Japan's Don
Kewaishi
Third Generation Boss
世界で一番熱い夏
The Revolt
Village of Eight Gravestones
The Last Judgment
Three Yakuza
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