
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, winning the Best Supporting Actor statuette for Gakko in 1993. He appeared as the lecherous Shinjiro Ishiyama, nicknamed Aodaishō, the antagonist of the hero, played by Yūzō Kayama, in all of the Wakadaishō series of films. The character Kizaru, from Eiichiro Oda's manga series One Piece, is modeled after Tanaka.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Credits and photos from TMDB.
The titles people know Kunie from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
as Okuno Shōgen
as Genkichi · 2 episodes
as Kanbê Katagiri


as Masato Sakurai

as 演员
as Dr. Saito


as 演员

as Inoue



as Tsune-san

as Tattsan

as 船长








as Shoji's stepfather





as Inspector Joichi Uno



as Lt. Todoroki
as Unpei Ikegata

as Inspector Joichi Uno

as Seiji Matsumiya

as Kanegai
as Rokkaku Prison Officer


as Taro
as Hirosuke


as Obara Nitôhei


as Satoyan

The people who keep turning up in Kunie’s titles.








