Kunie Tanaka

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Kunie Tanaka
Born	(1932-11-23)November 23, 1932
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, Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity series 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] The character Kizaru, from Eiichiro Oda's popular manga series One Piece, is based on Tanaka.

He appeared as the lecherous Shinjiro Ishiyama, nicknamed Aodaishō, the antagonist of the hero, played by Yuzo Kayama, in all of the Wakadaishō series of films.

Selected filmography

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Daigaku no Wakadaishō (1961)
Sanjuro (1962)
Kwaidan (1964)
Eleki no Wakadaishō (1965)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)
Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy (1974)
Kimi yo funnu no kawa wo watare (1976)
Dainamaito dondon (1978)
Izakaya Choji (1983)
Yojo no jidai (1988)
Tasmania Story (1990)
Luminous Moss (1992)
Gakko (1993)
Tora-san to the Rescue (Part of the series Otoko wa Tsurai yo) (1995)
Minna no Ie (2001) aka Everyone's Home

References

↑ "第 17 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品" (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 2010-12-16.

External links

Kunie Tanaka at the Internet Movie Database

Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor

Toshiro Mifune (1951)
Hisaya Morishige (1955)
Keiji Sada (1956)
Frankie Sakai (1957)
Ichikawa Raizō VIII (1958)
Hiroyuki Nagato (1959)
Rentarō Mikuni (1960)
Toshiro Mifune (1961)
Tatsuya Nakadai (1962)
Yorozuya Kinnosuke (1963)
Keiju Kobayashi (1964)
Toshiro 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)
Rentarō 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)
Ryo Kase (2007)
Masahiro Motoki (2008)
Tsurube Shofukutei (2009)
Satoshi Tsumabuki (2010)
Yutaka Takenouchi (2011)
Hiroshi Abe (2012)

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

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Name	Tanaka, Kunie
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Short description	Japanese writer
Date of birth	23 November 1932
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