Tsunehiko Watase

Known for: Acting
Born: July 28, 1944, Yasugi, Shimane, Japan
Died: March 14, 2017
Movies: 135

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

6.3

Virus

1980

7.2

Antarctica

1983

7.0

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

1981

7.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

1973

7.1

Sympathy for the Underdog

1971

6.2

Gate of Flesh

1988

5.8

G.I. Samurai

1979

4.6

Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds

1977

6.2

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom

1973

Filmography

2015	Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38	Hideo Yoake
2015	Inspector Totsugawa Series 54 - The Woman of Sunrise Izumo
2015	Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 37 - Mystery of Double Homicides from Tokyo to Hamamatsu	Hideo Yoake
2014	Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 36
2009	Sanpei the Fisher Boy	Ippei Mihira
2006	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
2006	Taxi Driver’s Mystery Diary SP22	Yoake Sudeo
2005	Haru Urara	Dai Muneishi
2001	Jesus is My Boss	Yuji Kihara
1999	Nile
1998	Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman	Yoake Hideo
1998	Let's Get Happy
1998	Andromedia	Toshihiko Hitomi / Mai's Father / Ai's Creator
1998	Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: Murder of the Killer	Yoake Hideo
1997	Steel & Lead	探偵
1997	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time	Antique Dealer
1994	Crest of Betrayal	Yasubei Horibe
1994	Sangokushi: The Distant Land	Cao Cao (voice)
1993	Rex: A Dinosaur's Story	Akira Tateno
1993	Emperor of Upheaval
1993	Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
1992	Nurses and Doctors	Naoyuki Uemura
1992	One Bowl of Kakesoba	Proprietor of Hokkaitei
1991	Maji!
1990	Heaven and Earth	Usami
1990	1750 Days of Turbulence
1990	Paradise Nippon
1990	Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
1989	Four Days of Snow and Blood	Ryoji Ishihara
1989	Sensei	Akira Nakajima
1989	Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
1988	The Silk Road	Li Yuanhao
1988	Gate of Flesh	Shintaro Ibuki
1987	Golf Before Dawn
1987	Samurai Rebellion	Futago Rokubei
1987	Tokyo Blackout	Asakura Tatsuya
1986	Death Shadows
1986	Beyond the Shining Sea	Atsushi Tanii
1986	Cabaret	Yakuza
1984	Fushin no Toki
1984	Marriage Counselor Tora-san	Tony
1984	Curtain Call	Takuji Shinozaki
1984	The Street of Desire	Sadaichi Yamakoshi
1983	The Politicians	Takuro Sotoura
1983	Antarctica	Ochi
1983	A Bridge of Tears
1983	Time and Tide	Yasu-san
1983	Amagi Pass	Matsunojo Tajima, the cop
1982	Lovers Lost	Kozo Watanabe
1982	Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
1982	Fossilized Wilderness	Sousuke Nishina
1982	Gate of Youth 2	Tadao Ishii
1981	Sailor Suit and Machine Gun	Makoto Sakuma
1981	Call from Darkness	Kazuo Harada
1981	Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
1981	Morning Moon Is Cruel	Kusakabe
1981	Abandoned
1981	Gate of Youth	Kanayama
1980	Writhing Tongue	Akira Miyoshi
1980	The Wicked	Lawyer Sakaki
1980	Virus	Yasuo Tatsuno
1980	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980	Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo	Lower Hanzo
1979	Heaven Sent	Shinsaku Miura
1979	The Three Undelivered Letters	Minegishi
1979	G.I. Samurai	Hayato Yano
1978	The Fall of Ako Castle	Kobayashi Heihachiro
1978	August Without Emperor	Akimasa Fujisaki
1978	The Incident	Takeshi Hanai
1978	10th Degree Earthquake	Max
1977	Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds	Takashi Ashizawa
1977	Japan's Don	Takeshi Nomizo
1976	The Great Okinawa Yakuza War	Hiroshi Kategaru
1976	Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist	Shuji Takagi
1976	A Savage Beast Goes Mad	Shin Hayami
1976	Violent Panic: The Big Crash	Takashi Yamanaka
1976	Operation Plazma in Osaka
1975	The Decisive Power of Aikido
1975	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss	Kunimitsu Sugawa
1975	Pimp Heaven
1975	Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
1974	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1	Noboru Kitami
1974	The Rapacious Jailbreaker	Tagami Kiyomatsu
1974	Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
1974	Violent Fraternity
1974	Code of Wolves
1974	Father of the Kamikaze
1974	Third Generation Boss
1974	The Karate Man and the Spy	Tekken Sakuragi
1974	The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974	The Tattooed Hitman	Kenichi Furuta
1974	Jeans Blues: No Future	Jiro Katagiri
1974	Woman Mobsters
1974	Student Yakuza
1974	Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown	Kuroki Tatsuya
1973	Bodyguard Kiba 2	Takeshi Nanjo
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War	Takeshi Kuramoto
1973	The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers	Mao
1973	A True Story of the Private Ginza Police	Watarai
1973	Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School	Yôichi Kikumura
1973	Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973	Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
1973	The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
1973	Aesthetics of a Bullet	Kiyoshi Koike
1973	Battles Without Honor and Humanity	Toshio Arita
1972	The Horrible Obsessions	Masayuki Shinshiro
1972	Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences	Tetsu Nagakawa
1972	Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
1972	Yakuza Skirmishes
1972	The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972	Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro	Genta
1972	Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972	Gang Warfare
1972	Wandering Ginza Butterfly	Ryūji
1972	The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1972	Zorome no San Kyoudai
1971	Wolves of the City: First to Fight
1971	A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
1971	The Armed Organization
1971	Troops of Darkness
1971	The Gambler's Counterattack	Takeji
1971	The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
1971	Wolves on Motorcycles
1971	Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess	Mari's friend
1971	Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival	Tatsumi Eiji
1971	Fate Deals the Card of Death
1971	Sympathy for the Underdog	Shin Seki
1970	Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
1970	Inside a Girl's Dormitory
1970	The Last Kamikaze
1970	The Experience
1970	Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
1970	Three Pretty Devils
1970	Prison Tales
1970	Killer's Hit List

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