Tsunehiko Watase
Born: 1944-07-28 in Yasugi, Shimane, Japan
Died: 2017-03-14
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2017
- And Then There Were None as Hyogo Iwamura
- 判事失格！？弁護士 夏目連太郎の逆転捜査
2015
2014
- Back of Father as Asakura Kenzou
- Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 36
- 更生人・土門恭介の再犯ファイル～罪を犯した女たち～
2013
2011
- Antarctica as Takeshi Kuramochi's Father
- 医師・円城寺修
2010
2009
- Sanpei the Fisher Boy as Ippei Mihira
2007
- Chiritotechin as Tsurezuretei Sojaku
2006
- Homicide Team 9 as Rintaro Kano
- 食い道楽!出張料理人 亀崎源一
- 北アルプス山岳救助隊・紫門一鬼８ 白馬八方尾根 雪どけの叫び
- Taxi Driver’s Mystery Diary SP22 as Yoake Sudeo
2005
- Haru Urara as Dai Muneishi
- 虚貌〜顔の無い殺人者
- 警視庁捜査一課強行犯七係
2004
2003
2001
- The Bubble
- Jesus is My Boss as Yuji Kihara
2000
1999
1998
- Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: Murder of the Killer as Yoake Hideo
- Andromedia as Toshihiko Hitomi / Mai's Father / Ai's Creator
- Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman as Yoake Hideo
- Let's Get Happy
1997
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time as Antique Dealer
- 海を渡った愛と殺意
- Steel & Lead as 探偵
1994
- Crest of Betrayal as Yasubei Horibe
- Sangokushi: The Distant Land as Cao Cao (voice)
1993
- The Fire Still Burns as Fujiwara no Hidehira
- Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
- Rex: A Dinosaur's Story as Akira Tateno
- Emperor of Upheaval
1992
- Totsugawa Police Department Series as 十津川省三
- One Bowl of Kakesoba as Proprietor of Hokkaitei
- Nurses and Doctors as Naoyuki Uemura
- Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary
1991
1990
1989
- Four Days of Snow and Blood as Ryoji Ishihara
- Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
- Sensei as Akira Nakajima
1988
- Gate of Flesh as Shintaro Ibuki
- The Silk Road as Li Yuanhao
1987
- Tokyo Blackout as Asakura Tatsuya
- Samurai Rebellion as Futago Rokubei
- Golf Before Dawn
1986
- Death Shadows
- Cabaret as Yakuza
- Beyond the Shining Sea as Atsushi Tanii
1985
- Sanada Taiheiki as Sanada Nobuyuki
1984
- The Street of Desire as Sadaichi Yamakoshi
- Marriage Counselor Tora-san as Tony
- Curtain Call as Takuji Shinozaki
- Fushin no Toki
1983
- Antarctica as Ochi
- Amagi Pass as Matsunojo Tajima, the cop
- Time and Tide as Yasu-san
- The Politicians as Takuro Sotoura
- ランドセルと目玉焼き as Kunio Hayasaka
- A Bridge of Tears
1982
- Lovers Lost as Kozo Watanabe
- Gate of Youth 2 as Tadao Ishii
- Fossilized Wilderness as Sousuke Nishina
- Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
1981
- Morning Moon Is Cruel as Kusakabe
- Gate of Youth as Kanayama
- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun as Makoto Sakuma
- Call from Darkness as Kazuo Harada
- Abandoned
- Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
1980
- Virus as Yasuo Tatsuno
- The Wicked as Lawyer Sakaki
- Writhing Tongue as Akira Miyoshi
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
- Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo as Lower Hanzo
1979
- G.I. Samurai as Hayato Yano
- The Three Undelivered Letters as Minegishi
- Heaven Sent as Shinsaku Miura
1978
- The Fall of Ako Castle as Kobayashi Heihachiro
- The Incident as Takeshi Hanai
- August Without Emperor as Akimasa Fujisaki
- 10th Degree Earthquake as Max
1977
- Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds as Takashi Ashizawa
- Japan's Don as Takeshi Nomizo
1976
- Violent Panic: The Big Crash as Takashi Yamanaka
- A Savage Beast Goes Mad as Shin Hayami
- Operation Plazma in Osaka
- Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist as Shuji Takagi
- The Great Okinawa Yakuza War as Hiroshi Kategaru
1975
1974
- Katsu Kaishu as Tanaka Shinbei
- Violent Fraternity
- Third Generation Boss
- Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
- The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Tagami Kiyomatsu
- Father of the Kamikaze
- Code of Wolves
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Noboru Kitami
- Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown as Kuroki Tatsuya
- The Karate Man and the Spy as Tekken Sakuragi
- The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
- Jeans Blues: No Future as Jiro Katagiri
- The Tattooed Hitman as Kenichi Furuta
- Woman Mobsters
- Student Yakuza
1973
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Toshio Arita
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Takeshi Kuramoto
- Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
- Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Yôichi Kikumura
- Bodyguard Kiba 2 as Takeshi Nanjo
- Aesthetics of a Bullet as Kiyoshi Koike
- Hell Riders in Kyoto
- The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
- The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers as Mao
- A True Story of the Private Ginza Police as Watarai
1972
- Yakuza Skirmishes
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly as Ryûji
- The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
- Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro as Genta
- The Horrible Obsessions as Masayuki Shinshiro
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
- Gang Warfare
- Shōwa Gokudōshi
- The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences as Tetsu Nagakawa
- Zorome no San Kyoudai
1971
- Wolves on Motorcycles
- Sympathy for the Underdog as Shin Seki
- Fate Deals the Card of Death
- Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess as Mari's friend
- The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
- The Armed Organization
- A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
- The Gambler's Counterattack as Takeji
- Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival as Tatsumi Eiji
- Troops of Darkness
- Wolves of the City: First to Fight