Kunie Tanaka
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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…
Also known as
田中邦卫
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Known For
Kwaidan
1965 · Movie
From the Northern Country
1981 · TV
Sanjuro
1962 · Movie
Ronin-gai
1990 · Movie
Submersion of Japan
1974 · TV
The Bullet Train
1975 · Movie
Dazzling Cops
1977 · TV
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
1959 · Movie
The Face of Another
1966 · Movie
The Sword of Doom
1966 · Movie
The Nagasaki Crime Chronicles
1975 · TV
The Bad Sleep Well
1960 · Movie