
Toki, Gifu, Japan
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.


as Goru Kuroita (黑板五郎)
1981

as Samurai
1962

1965

as Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")
1965

as Mentally Ill Man #1
1966

as Tatsuno
1974

as Koga's Brother
1975

as Hitman
1960

1986

as Obara Nitôhei
1959

1961

as Katsuji Ozaki
1975
2003

2010

as Kanbê Katagiri
2004

2003

as Masato Sakurai
2003

as 演员
2003

as Dr. Saito
2003

as Self
2002

as Self
2002

2002

as 演员
2002

2002

as Chouichirou Iwata
2001

as Matsuda (The Shopkeeper)
2000

as Inoue
1998

1997

1997

as Tsune-san
1996

as Tattsan
1996

as Ship Captain
1995

1995

1995

1995

1994

1994
13 ep.

as Goru Kuroita (黑板五郎)
24 episodes

as Tatsuno
26 episodes

13 episodes

11 episodes

as 蛙ヶ池の仙太
30 episodes

as Genkichi
2 episodes

as Kintaro
13 episodes

2 episodes

as Yoshitoshi Kogure
26 episodes

7 episodes

as Han-Emon of Otowa
5 episodes
4 episodes

as Nangou Goro
1 episodes

as ボオルチュ
2 episodes

1 episodes