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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.
Known For
Sanjuro
as Samurai
Kwaidan
as Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
The Bullet Train
as Koga's Brother
The Face of Another
as Mentally Ill Man #1
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Obara Nitôhei
The Sword of Doom
as Senkichi
Dodes'ka-den
as Hatsutaro Kawaguchi
Manhunt
as Yokomichi Keiji
The Bad Sleep Well
as Hitman
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Masakichi Makihara
