Actor/Actress Male 🇯🇵 Japon

Kunie Tanaka

田中邦卫

Naissance

23 November 1932 (88 ans)

Décès

2021-03-24

Lieu de naissance

Toki, Gifu, Japan

Métier

Actor/Actress

Rôles principaux

The Hidden Blade Kanbê Katagiri Battles Without Honor and Humanity Masakichi Makihara The Bullet Train Koga's Brother Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War Masakichi Makihara Graveyard of Honor Katsuji Kozaki

Biographie

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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