Birthday: 1944-07-28
Place of Birth: Yasugi, Shimane, Japan
Biography: Tsunehiko Watase (July 28, 1944 – March 14, 2017) was a Japanese actor. He is best known for portraying Rintaro Kano in Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9 Gakari ("Homicide Team 9"). He won Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Japan Academy Prize for The Incident and at the 3rd Hochi Film Award for The Incident, Kōtei no inai hachigatsu and The Fall of Ako Castle.
A 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another Ishii-...
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Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre....
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In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi...
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A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and ...
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Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be...
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The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecke...
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When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza fami...
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The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides...
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A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real...
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A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his m...
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Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Divisio...
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Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a co...
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A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsuk...
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Echizen Fukui Domain. Futago Rokubei, who backs down even at the sight of a gecko, is called "Coward...
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A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his sorrows...
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Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake....
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After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a...
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Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to pri...
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With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...
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Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless...
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Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand...
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Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expeditio...
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Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend c...
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An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat....
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Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun...
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Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr...
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This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to reali...
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It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido...
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In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi X...
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A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes unde...
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A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their...
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Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent ac...
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A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to viol...
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Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro K...
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The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expe...
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Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting h...
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Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir...
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Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....
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A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mis...
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Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e...
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Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tra...
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Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of th...
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In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san mee...
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Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible...
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The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n...
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Sanpei is a young boy who lives with his grandpa in a small village in Akita and they both love fish...
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Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate....
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The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies:...
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Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground....
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A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel....
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In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new...
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After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form ...
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Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangs...
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A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic...
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Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a...
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Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. T...
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The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That make...
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Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case i...
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A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sha...
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Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested...
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The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest...
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Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept...
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The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y...
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Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a p...
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Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit...
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Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated s...
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Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's mem...
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With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst...
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Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamag...
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Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyal...
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The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner....
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Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised M...
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The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money....
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In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of...
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Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, ...
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Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into de...
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Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a ...
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Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has...
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In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. T...
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Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a ...
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A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay...
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Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gan...
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Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's large...
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After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years....
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A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death....
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A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he...
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Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objec...
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Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administra...
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Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his broth...
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Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda ...
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In one of the districts of Tokyo, an old school is planned to be torn down after the summer holidays...
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A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...
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A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later ...
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The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate l...
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A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinos...
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Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's....
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Based on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single horse ...
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Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who di...
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Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister....
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A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day ...
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The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t...
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Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal m...
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Yoake Sudeo, a former elite detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, now works as a taxi driver...
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A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thrill...
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