Tanaka Kunie

Tanaka Kunie (田中邦衛) was born on November 23, 1932. Tanaka Kunie movies and tv shows: The Hidden Blade 2004 (Japan), The Boat to Heaven 2003 (Japan), Kewaishi 2002 (Japan), Ai Kotoba Wa Yuki 2000 (Japan), A Class to Remember 3: The New Voyage 1998 (Japan)...

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First Name: Kunie

Family Name: Tanaka

Native Name: 田中邦衛

Nationality: Japanese

Gender: Male

Born: November 23, 1932

Age: 86

Kunie Tanaka 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. 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. He also played the soft-spken Goro, the father who transferred his family to the cold countryside up north after his failed marriage in the 80s to 90s TV series and SPs "Kita no Kuni Kara."