Tanaka Kunie

Age: 92

Birthday: November 23, 1932

Nationality: Japanese

Gender: Male

Tanaka Kunie is a Japanese actor. He had his first notable role in 1960 as a thug in Kurosawa Akira's The Bad Sleep Well and worked with the director again on Sanjuro. Tanaka is well known for his roles in Fukasaku Kinji's yakuza films, namely the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series. He also appeared in Kobayashi Masaki'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 Ishiyama Shinjiro, nicknamed Aodaisho, the antagonist of the hero, played by Kayama Yuzo, in all of the Wakadaisho series of films. The character Kizaru, from Oda Eiichiro's manga series One Piece, is modeled after Tanaka. (Source: Wikipedia).

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