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person_profile-Kunie Tanaka

Kunie Tanaka Died at age: 88

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Kunie Tanaka

Date of Birth:

Nov 23, 1932

Country of birth:

Japan.

Died:

Mar 24, 2021

Biography of

Kunie Tanaka

    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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Kunie Tanaka

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Filmography of

Kunie Tanaka

Found 0 Movies in total

... 2000

The Dark Magistrate

Yoshitoshi Kogure ( Actor )

... 1975

Submersion of Japan

Tatsuno ( Actor )

... 1974 - 1975