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Place of Birth: Toki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
About Kunie Tanaka
- Kunie Tanaka (?? ??, Tanaka Kunie, born November 23, 1932) is 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 Aodaisho, the antagonist of the hero, played by Yuzo Kayama, in all of the Wakadaisho series of films.
- The character Kizaru, from Eiichiro Oda's manga series One Piece, is modeled after Tanaka.
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