Kunie Tanaka

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Nov 23, 1932 (92 years old)
Death date
Mar 24, 2021

Kunie Tanaka

Known For

The Password is Courage
1h 0m
TV Show 2000

The Password is Courage

The story takes place in a small rural village surrounded by beautiful nature. However, it is about to be destroyed by a waste disposal plant. Something must be done. The villagers rise up. They get a lawyer from Tokyo to help fight alongside them. Only that he's not a real lawyer but a washed-up actor (Yakusho Kōji), who once played a lawyer on TV.

The Rainbow Seeker 2
1h 52m
Movie 1997

The Rainbow Seeker 2

Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, he falls in love for a single mother.

Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
1h 30m
Movie 1997

Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow

A drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake.

The Rainbow Seeker
2h 0m
Movie 1996

The Rainbow Seeker

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films to the residents of his small town.

Oishinbo
1h 45m
Movie 1996

Oishinbo

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".

Salaryman Senka
1h 33m
Movie 1995

Salaryman Senka

Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.

Tora-san to the Rescue
1h 47m
Movie 1995

Tora-san to the Rescue

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.

北の国から ’95秘密 後編
Movie 1995

北の国から ’95秘密 後編

Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
3h 3m
Movie 1995

Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu

Free and Easy Special
1h 46m
Movie 1994

Free and Easy Special

Approached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking help. Hama-chan is away on a business trip, but Michiko entertains Su-san late into the night. When he gets drunk and ends up spending the night, Hama-chan, begins to question his boss's relationship with Michiko.

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 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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