Kunie Tanaka

Acting

Kunie Tanaka

Born 1932-11-23 Toki, Gifu, Japan 279 films

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, winni…

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Filmography

279 films
The Last Ronin poster

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako doma…

The Last Ronin

★ 6.6 2010

Fukumimi poster

29-year-old Satonaka Takashi (Kudo Kankuro) is a freelancer. He falls in love at first sight with S…

Fukumimi

★ 10.0 2003

Yomigaeri poster

When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is…

Yomigaeri

★ 6.1 2003

Kewaishi poster

Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official selection…

Kewaishi

★ 8.5 2002