Kunie Tanaka
AKA: 田中邦卫
Birthday: 1932-11-23
Died: 2021-03-24
Birthplace: Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
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.
Filmography
Character: Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
Character: Buddhist Priest
Character: Hatsutaro Kawaguchi
Character: Kanbê Katagiri
Character: Masakichi Makihara
Character: Seiji Matsumiya
Character: Matsuzo Tsumura
Character: Mentally Ill Man #1
Character: Sankichi Fujita
Character: Man in White Suit
Character: Chouichirou Iwata
Character: Masakichi Makihara
Character: Masakichi Makihara
Character: Shinjiro Ishiyama
Character: Matsuda (The Shopkeeper)
Character: Masato Sakurai
Character: Kokichi Minami
Character: Detective Naraki
Character: Eitaro Imanishi
Character: Kuramoto Kuraji
Character: Katsuji Nemoto
Character: Masakichi Makihara
Character: Okino, Hitomi's father
Character: Masakichi Makihara
Character: Teruo Maruyama
Character: Koga's Brother
Character: Kinpachi Komiya
Character: Doctor Michio Hongô
Character: Masayoshi Imanishi
Character: Kenkichi Ohara
Character: Shinjiro Ishiyama (Aodaisho)
Character: Shinjiro Ishiyama (Aodaisho)
Character: Yoshikazu Minagawa
Character: Rikichi Komadera
Character: Yokomichi Keiji
Character: Yugiri-ro client
Character: Shinjirou Ishiyama
Character: Private Anayama
Character: Shoji's stepfather
Character: Teacher Fukushi
Character: Magozaemon Doi
Character: Yûichirô Tayama
Character: Rokkaku Prison Officer
Character: Toramatsu Otani