Personal Info
Birthday
November 23, 1932
Place of Birth
Toki, Gifu, Japan
Known For
Acting
Kunie Tanaka
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.
Acting Filmography (287)
6.6
The Last Ronin
Movie2010
0.0
The Sun in Kurobe
TV Series2009
7.4
The Hidden Blade
Movie2004
No Backdrop
10.0
Fukumimi
Movie2003
No Backdrop
8.0
The Boat to Heaven
Movie2003
0.0
北の国から 記憶 前編
Movie2003
6.1
Yomigaeri
Movie2003
0.0
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
Movie2002
No Backdrop
0.0
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
Movie2002
No Backdrop
0.0
Kita no kuni kara 2002 Yuigon Part 2
Movie2002
0.0
北の国から記憶
Movie2002
No Backdrop
8.5
Kewaishi
Movie2002
6.3
All About Our House
Movie2001
No Backdrop
0.0
The Password is Courage
TV Series2000
No Backdrop
9.0
As the River Flows
Movie2000
6.6
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Movie1998
0.0
The Rainbow Seeker 2
Movie1997
No Backdrop
0.0
Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
Movie1997
7.0
The Rainbow Seeker
Movie1996
6.5
Oishinbo
Movie1996
7.8
Tora-san to the Rescue
Movie1995
No Backdrop
0.0
Salaryman Senka
Movie1995
No Backdrop
0.0
北の国から ’95秘密 後編
Movie1995
No Backdrop
8.0
Kita no kuni kara '95 Himitsu
Movie1995
No Backdrop
4.0
イルカに逢える日
Movie1994
7.3
Free and Easy Special
Movie1994
0.0
Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
TV Series1993
7.3
A Class to Remember
Movie1993
No Backdrop
8.0
Rainbow Bridge
Movie1993
No Backdrop
0.0
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Movie1993
7.5
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
Movie1993
8.0
Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
Movie1992
6.2
Luminous Moss
Movie1992
7.8
My Sons
Movie1991
No Backdrop
10.0
Baian the Assassin
TV Series1991
No Backdrop
0.0
Castle of Sand
Movie1991
7.0
A Desirable Marriage
Movie1991
0.0
The love song of farewell later
Movie1991
No Backdrop
0.0
Shy Security
Movie1991
0.0
Private Detective Dobu
TV Series1991
No Backdrop
4.0
Kamigata Kugaizoshi
Movie1991
No Backdrop
0.0
Baian the Assassin
Movie1990
6.2
Ronin-gai
Movie1990
8.5
Tasmania Story
Movie1990
No Backdrop
8.0
Hoshi wo tsugu mono
Movie1990
No Backdrop
8.0
Kita no kuni kara '89 Kikyo
Movie1989
No Backdrop
1.0
Love on a Daily Basis
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
I Love You So Much
Movie1988
No Backdrop
7.0
Yojo no jidai
Movie1988
No Backdrop
0.0
This Heartbeat
Movie1988
No Backdrop
8.0
Tomorrow
Movie1988
No Backdrop
6.7
Oración
Movie1988
No Backdrop
9.0
The Great Department Store Robbery
Movie1987
8.6
Take Me Out to the Snowland
Movie1987
No Backdrop
5.5
The Return of the Newshound and the Lady Cop
Movie1987
No Backdrop
0.0
The Thief and the Expelled Master
Movie1987
No Backdrop
0.0
The Roaming Reporter and Rookie Detective 3 - I Saw a Woman's Corpse in the Steam of Beppu Onsen!
Movie1987
No Backdrop
7.5
Kita no kuni kara '87 Hatsukoi
Movie1987
8.0
The House of Wedlock
Movie1986
5.7
Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
Movie1986
0.0
Rice Curry
TV Series1986
No Backdrop
0.0
The Roaming Reporter and Rookie Detective 2 - I Saw the Bride's Corpse in the Sea of Toba!
Movie1986
No Backdrop
0.0
The Roaming Reporter and Rookie Detective - I Saw a Female Ghost in Hida Takayama!
Movie1985
6.4
Early Spring Story
Movie1985
7.6
Demon
Movie1985
No Backdrop
0.0
Ghost Reunion
Movie1984
No Backdrop
6.0
Kita no kuni kara '84 Natsu
Movie1984
6.7
The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
Movie1984
7.5
Sukanpin Walk
Movie1984
0.0
Tokimeki Kaigan Monogatari
Movie1984
0.0
Private Detective DOBU 6: The Origami Murder Case
Movie1983
7.8
Choji Snack Bar
Movie1983
No Backdrop
7.0
Nogare no machi
Movie1983
0.0
Deadly Swords in Search of Hidden Gold
Movie1983
No Backdrop
0.0
The Undercover Ninja Organization
Movie1983
0.0
Private Detective DOBU 5: The Pinwheel Murder Case
Movie1983
No Backdrop
7.0
Kita no kuni kara '83 Fuyu
Movie1983
0.0
Private Detective DOBU 4: The Mysterious Kite Murders Case
Movie1983
No Backdrop
10.0
Highschool Scramble
Movie1982
0.0
Tonga Adventure Family
Movie1982
0.0
Private Detective DOBU 3: The Exile Island Murder Case
Movie1982
No Backdrop
7.0
The Shootout
Movie1982
No Backdrop
7.0
Ekisutora
Movie1982
0.0
Private Detective DOBU 2: The Kyoto Murder Case
Movie1982
9.0
Karate Cop
Movie1982
7.0
At This Late Date, the Charleston
Movie1981
6.3
Station
Movie1981
8.9
From the Northern Country
TV Series1981
No Backdrop
10.0
Return of the Champ
Movie1981
0.0
Private Detective DOBU 1
Movie1981
No Backdrop
0.0
Aoki Ookami Narukichiomoase no Shougai
TV Series1980
0.0
May Love Be Restored
Movie1980
5.5
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Movie1980
7.0
The Revolt
Movie1980
9.0
The Last Game
Movie1979
No Backdrop
6.0
The Fixer
Movie1979
No Backdrop
0.0
The Bride of the Ghost Lake
Movie1979
No Backdrop
0.0
Troubleman Laughs and Kills
Movie1979
6.5
White Love
Movie1979
6.3
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Movie1979
6.9
The Inferno
Movie1979
No Backdrop
0.0
Ghost Festival in Zenjin Village
Movie1979
7.7
Murder in the Doll House
Movie1979
8.0
Down with The Big Boss
Movie1979
No Backdrop
7.0
Nichiren
Movie1979
No Backdrop
9.0
The Truck Rascals Go to The North
Movie1978
6.8
Pink Lady's Motion Picture
Movie1978
6.1
Blood Type: Blue
Movie1978
No Backdrop
0.0
Ghost Coast
Movie1978
6.2
Never Give Up
Movie1978
7.8
Dynamite Don-Don
Movie1978
6.5
The Demon
Movie1978
6.1
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Movie1978
6.3
Winter's Flower
Movie1978
No Backdrop
0.0
Inside the Storm of Love
Movie1978
No Backdrop
0.0
Ghost Train
Movie1978
No Backdrop
0.0
The Extravagant Cops
Movie1977
7.0
Village of Eight Gravestones
Movie1977
No Backdrop
10.0
Sugata Sanshiro
Movie1977
No Backdrop
0.0
Older brother
TV Series1977
8.2
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
Movie1977
0.0
Seasonal Wind
Movie1977
No Backdrop
0.0
Dazzling Cops
TV Series1977
7.3
Japan's Don
Movie1977
9.0
Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On
Movie1976
7.0
Yoake no hata matsumoto jiichirō Den
Movie1976
No Backdrop
0.0
Hangyaku no Tabi
Movie1976
No Backdrop
10.0
Hobo General
Movie1976
6.5
The Machine Gun Dragon
Movie1976
6.2
Manhunt
Movie1976
7.7
The Wild Trucker
Movie1975
9.0
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
Movie1975
5.7
The International Gang of Kobe
Movie1975
7.0
Company Buggers
Movie1975
No Backdrop
0.0
Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women
Movie1975
6.9
The Bullet Train
Movie1975
6.7
Light of Africa
Movie1975
6.5
Shimane Prison Riot
Movie1975
6.1
Cops vs. Thugs
Movie1975
0.0
The Nagasaki Crime Chronicles
TV Series1975
7.0
Great Jailbreak
Movie1975
5.9
Battle Cry
Movie1975
6.7
Graveyard of Honor
Movie1975
8.5
Doterai Man
Movie1975
No Backdrop
10.0
Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
Movie1975
5.7
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Movie1974
No Backdrop
0.0
Submersion of Japan
TV Series1974
8.0
Third Generation Boss
Movie1974
6.4
Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
Movie1974
6.8
Evil of Dracula
Movie1974
7.2
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Movie1974
No Backdrop
8.0
Machi no Hi
Movie1974
7.0
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Movie1974
7.0
Yakuza of the Present
Movie1973
7.9
Stray Dog
Movie1973
7.0
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Movie1973
7.0
Japan's Top Gangster
Movie1973
No Backdrop
6.0
Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
Movie1973
No Backdrop
0.0
What is Love?
Movie1973
0.0
The School Deviate Waru
Movie1973
No Backdrop
8.0
Deeper Than Blue
Movie1973
No Backdrop
0.0
The Three Musketeers of Japan: The Tale of Hakata Obi
Movie1973
7.3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Movie1973
6.8
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
Movie1972
0.0
The Shin Hasegawa Series
TV Series1972
6.0
Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
Movie1972
10.0
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
Movie1972
No Backdrop
9.0
My Voiceless Friends
Movie1972
6.8
Summer Soldiers
Movie1972
No Backdrop
0.0
The Witty Samurai
Movie1972
0.0
Zorome no San Kyoudai
Movie1972
No Backdrop
10.0
Japan's No. 1 Shocked Man
Movie1971
No Backdrop
8.0
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
Movie1971
7.4
The Wolves
Movie1971
7.8
The Battle of Okinawa
Movie1971
No Backdrop
9.0
The Instant Services Bureau
Movie1971
No Backdrop
9.0
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
Movie1971
8.0
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
Movie1971
No Backdrop
0.0
Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
Movie1971
No Backdrop
0.0
Young Guy, the Ace Rider
Movie1971
0.0
Banner of the Young
Movie1970
No Backdrop
8.0
It's a Man's Way of Life
Movie1970
7.1
Dodes'ka-den
Movie1970
5.0
The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Movie1970
No Backdrop
7.0
Fear of Sex
Movie1970
No Backdrop
6.0
Get Your Sky, Young Guy
Movie1970
6.8
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
Movie1970
No Backdrop
9.0
Charming Men
Movie1970
No Backdrop
7.0
Bravo, Young Guy
Movie1970
0.0
Live Again Tomorrow
Movie1970
No Backdrop
0.0
Rebel Against Glory
Movie1970
0.0
The Summit of Mt. Fuji
Movie1970
No Backdrop
5.8
Duel at Fort Ezo
Movie1970
0.0
Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
Movie1969
8.0
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
Movie1969
7.0
Tenchu!
Movie1969
No Backdrop
6.5
Young Guy on Mt. Cook
Movie1969
8.0
Forward, Young People!
Movie1969
7.5
Goyokin
Movie1969
No Backdrop
0.0
夕月
Movie1969
No Backdrop
6.5
Young Guy Graduates
Movie1969
6.5
Outlaw: Black Dagger
Movie1968
No Backdrop
0.0
Angel's Lover
Movie1968
8.0
The Woman Gambler's Revenge
Movie1968
9.0
Young People
Movie1968
No Backdrop
7.0
In Broad Daylight
Movie1968
5.9
The Human Bullet
Movie1968
7.0
Three Rogues
Movie1968
No Backdrop
9.0
Cry of the Mountain
Movie1968
No Backdrop
8.0
An Angel's Temptation
Movie1968
No Backdrop
6.0
Young Guy in Rio
Movie1968
9.0
Women and Miso Soup
Movie1968
10.0
The Woman Champion
Movie1968
No Backdrop
7.0
How to Be the Worst of Office Workers
Movie1968
8.0
Hymn to a Tired Man
Movie1968
7.0
Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
Movie1968
No Backdrop
6.0
Circuit-A-Go-Go
Movie1967
No Backdrop
0.0
The Free Island
Movie1967
9.0
Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil
Movie1967
No Backdrop
7.0
Young Guy in the South Pacific
Movie1967
No Backdrop
8.0
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
Movie1967
6.0
Game of Chance 2
Movie1967
No Backdrop
0.0
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
Movie1967
9.0
River of Forever
Movie1967
No Backdrop
7.0
Birth of a Fighter
Movie1967
No Backdrop
7.5
Let's Go! Young Guy
Movie1967
No Backdrop
7.0
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
Movie1966
No Backdrop
0.0
Debt of Honor
Movie1966
No Backdrop
0.0
Golden Ninja
Movie1966
7.2
Koto—The Lake of Tears
Movie1966
7.0
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
Movie1966
7.1
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Movie1966
7.7
The Face of Another
Movie1966
8.0
The Front Line Showdown
Movie1966
No Backdrop
8.0
It Started In The Alps
Movie1966
No Backdrop
0.0
Third Class Soldier Boss
Movie1966
No Backdrop
9.0
The Bullet and the Horse
Movie1966
7.7
The Sword of Doom
Movie1966
7.4
The Threat
Movie1966
6.9
Silence Has No Wings
Movie1966
No Backdrop
0.0
The Saturday Tiger
TV Series1966
7.5
Cash Calls Hell
Movie1966
No Backdrop
9.0
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
Movie1965
8.0
Campus A Go-Go
Movie1965
0.0
Wakai nobara
Movie1965
0.0
Yakuza G-Men
Movie1965
7.5
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Movie1965
7.5
Sword of the Beast
Movie1965
No Backdrop
7.5
Young Guy at Sea
Movie1965
8.0
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Movie1965
7.8
Three Yakuza
Movie1965
8.3
The Last Judgment
Movie1965
7.2
Abashiri Prison
Movie1965
1.0
Tale of Ninja Duty
Movie1965
7.7
Kwaidan
Movie1965
7.0
Red Diamond
Movie1964
No Backdrop
0.0
間諜
Movie1964
0.0
Shingo's Final Duel
Movie1964
7.0
The Desperate
Movie1964
0.0
Punishment of a Lawless Villian
Movie1964
6.6
Sasuke and His Comedians
Movie1963
0.0
Hell Festival
Movie1963
No Backdrop
0.0
Okashina yatsu
Movie1963
No Backdrop
8.0
Walleyed Nippon
Movie1963
6.5
Young Guy in Hawaii
Movie1963
No Backdrop
0.0
A Photo journalist's Story: Risk Your Life for the Moment
Movie1963
No Backdrop
9.0
Sensation Seekers
Movie1963
10.0
A Fishmonger's Tour
Movie1963
No Backdrop
7.5
College Champ
Movie1962
7.3
Pitfall
Movie1962
7.0
Operation Sewer Rats
Movie1962
No Backdrop
9.0
The Crimson Sky
Movie1962
7.3
The Inheritance
Movie1962
No Backdrop
8.3
Pride of the Campus
Movie1962
7.9
Sanjuro
Movie1962
No Backdrop
0.0
Blood on the Sea
Movie1961
7.0
Sir Galahad in Campus
Movie1961
6.4
Big Shots Die at Dawn
Movie1961
No Backdrop
8.0
Eternity of Love
Movie1961
No Backdrop
8.0
Hidden Fangs
Movie1961
8.0
The Merciless Trap
Movie1961
7.7
The Bad Sleep Well
Movie1960
6.4
The Sun's Burial
Movie1960
8.2
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Movie1959
No Backdrop
7.5
Lucky Dragon No. 5
Movie1959
No Backdrop
6.8
The Story of Pure Love
Movie1957
No Backdrop
0.0
Triumphant Song of Youth
Movie1956