Kunie Tanaka
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.
Acted Movies
Director: Yoji Yamada
Writers: Yoji Yamada,
Cast: Chieko Baisho, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Kunie Tanaka, Masatoshi Nagase, Nana Saito, Reiko Takashima, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Takako Matsu, Tomoko Tabata, Yukiyoshi Ozawa,
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Writers: Shinobu Hashimoto,
Cast: Ichir? Nakatani, K? Nishimura, Kei Sat?, Kunie Tanaka, Michiyo Aratama, Tadao Nakamaru, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshir? Mifune, Y?ko Nait?, Y?z? Kayama,
