Kunie Tanaka
Acting
Born November 23, 1932 · Toki, Gifu, Japan
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…
Known For · 40 titles
From the Northern Country
Submersion of Japan
The Nagasaki Crime Chronicles
The Password is Courage
The Shin Hasegawa Series
Red Diamond
The Shootout
The Bad Sleep Well
Kwaidan
Sanjuro
Rice Curry
Older brother
Sir Galahad in Campus
The House of Wedlock
The Merciless Trap
Blood on the Sea
世界で一番熱い夏
Troubleman Laughs and Kills
The Bullet Train
The Inferno
Nogare no machi
White Love
The love song of farewell later
The Face of Another
The Sword of Doom
Graveyard of Honor
Debt of Honor
Ronin-gai
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Station
Baian the Assassin
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
The Battle of Okinawa
Dodes'ka-den
Manhunt
Goyokin
May Love Be Restored
The Return of the Newshound and the Lady Cop
The Sun in Kurobe
Private Detective Dobu