Kunie Tanaka

Kunie Tanaka
Born	November 23, 1932(1932-11-23)
Occupation	Actor

Kunie Tanaka (田中邦衛, Tanaka Kunie^?, born 23 November 1932) is a Japanese actor who has appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro and The Bad Sleep Well and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan.

He has been nominated for five Japanese Academy Awards, winning the Best Supporting Actor statuette for Gakko in 1993.^[1]

Selected filmography

Minna no Ie (2001) aka Everyone's Home
Tora-san to the Rescue (Part of the series Otoko wa Tsurai yo) (1995)
Gakko (1993)
Luminous Moss (1992)
Yojo no jidai (1988)
Izakaya Choji (1983)
Dainamaito dondon (1978)
Kimi yo funnu no kawa wo watare (1976)
Jingi Naki Tatakai: Kanketsu Hen (1974)
Jingi Naki Tatakai: Chōjō Sakusen (1973)
Jingi Naki Tatakai: Dairisensō (1973)
Jingi Naki Tatakai (1973)
Kwaidan (1964)
Sanjuro (1962)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

References

^ "第 17 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品" (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=17. Retrieved 2010-12-16.

External links

Kunie Tanaka at the Internet Movie Database

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor

Toshirō Mifune (1951) · Hisaya Morishige (1955) · Keiji Sada (1956) · Frankie Sakai (1957) · Ichikawa Raizō VIII (1958) · Hiroyuki Nagato (1959) · Rentaro Mikuni (1960) · Toshirō Mifune (1961) · Tatsuya Nakadai (1962) · Yorozuya Kinnosuke (1963) · Keiju Kobayashi (1964) · Toshirō Mifune (1965) · Hajime Hana (1966) · Bunta Sugawara (1975) · Tetsuya Watari (1976) · Ken Takakura (1977) · Ken Ogata (1978) · Tomisaburo Wakayama (1979) · Tatsuya Nakadai (1980) · Toshiyuki Nagashima (1981) · Kiyoshi Atsumi (1982) · Ken Ogata (1983) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (1984) · Kin'ya Kitaōji (1985) · Kunie Tanaka (1986) · Takanori Jinnai (1987) · Hajime Hana (1988) · Rentaro Mikuni (1989) · Yoshio Harada (1990) · Naoto Takenaka (1991) · Masahiro Motoki (1992) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1993) · Eiji Okuda (1994) · Hiroyuki Sanada (1995) · Kōji Yakusho (1996) · Kōji Yakusho (1997) · Takeshi Kitano (1998) · Ken Takakura (1999) · Yūji Oda (2000) · Mansai Nomura (2001) · Kōichi Satō (2002) · Toshiyuki Nishida (2003) · Akira Terao (2004) · Hiroyuki Sanada (2005) · Ken Watanabe (2006) · Ryō Kase (2007) · Masahiro Motoki (2008)

Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Tetsuya Takeda (1978) · Tsunehiko Watase (1979) · Bunta Sugawara (1980) · Tetsurō Tamba (1981) · Katsuo Nakamura (1982) · Morio Kazama (1983) · Morio Kazama (1984) · Kaku Takashina (1985) · Kaoru Kobayashi (1986) · Hitoshi Ueki (1987) · Masahiko Tsugawa (1988) · Tsurutarō Kataoka (1989) · Eiji Bandō (1990) · Renji Ishibashi (1991) · Masatoshi Nagase (1992) · Naoto Takenaka (1993) · Kunie Tanaka (1994) · Kiichi Nakai (1995) · Naoto Takenaka (1996) · Naoto Takenaka (1997) · Masahiko Nishimura (1998) · Chosuke Ikariya (1999) · Nenji Kobayashi (2000) · Kōichi Satō (2001) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (2002) · Min Tanaka (2003) · Kōichi Satō (2004) · Joe Odagiri (2005) · Shinichi Tsutsumi (2006) · Takashi Sasano (2007) · Kaoru Kobayashi (2008) · Tsutomu Yamazaki (2009) · Teruyuki Kagawa (2010)