Tsunehiko Watase
Acting
Born July 28, 1944, Yasugi, Shimane, Japan
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
- And Then There Were None — Hyogo Iwamura
- 判事失格！？弁護士 夏目連太郎の逆転捜査
- 2015Inspector Totsugawa Series 54 - The Woman of Sunrise Izumo
- 2015Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 37 - Mystery of Double Homicides from Tokyo to Hamamatsu — Hideo Yoake
- 2015Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38 — Hideo Yoake
- Back of Father — Asakura Kenzou
- 2014Taxi 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～
- よその歌 わたしの唄
- Antarctica — Takeshi Kuramochi's Father
- 医師・円城寺修
- 内田康夫ミステリー 湯布院殺人事件
- 2009Sanpei the Fisher Boy — Ippei Mihira
- Chiritotechin — Tsurezuretei Sojaku
- Homicide Team 9 — Rintaro Kano
- 2006Taxi Driver’s Mystery Diary SP22 — Yoake Sudeo
- 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
- 食い道楽!出張料理人 亀崎源一
- 2005Haru Urara — Dai Muneishi
- 虚貌〜顔の無い殺人者
- 警視庁捜査一課強行犯七係
- つぐない
- 湯けむり殺人案内 なんにも専務の名推理
- Omiyasan — Torii Kansaburo
- 長崎で消えた女
- 2001Jesus is My Boss — Yuji Kihara
- The Bubble
- 死刑囚の妹
- 殺意の涯て－広域指定188号の女
- 1999Nile
- 1998Andromedia — Toshihiko Hitomi / Mai's Father / Ai's Creator
- 1998Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: Murder of the Killer — Yoake Hideo
- 1998Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman — Yoake Hideo
- 1998Let's Get Happy
- 1997Steel & Lead — 探偵
- 1997The Girl Who Leapt Through Time — Antique Dealer
- 海を渡った愛と殺意
- 1994Crest of Betrayal — Yasubei Horibe
- 1994Sangokushi: The Distant Land — Cao Cao (voice)
- 1993Emperor of Upheaval
- 1993Rex: A Dinosaur's Story — Akira Tateno
- 1993Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
- The Fire Still Burns — Fujiwara no Hidehira
- 1992Nurses and Doctors — Naoyuki Uemura
- 1992One Bowl of Kakesoba — Proprietor of Hokkaitei
- Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary
- Totsugawa Police Department Series — 十津川省三
- 1991Maji!
- 19901750 Days of Turbulence
- 1990Heaven and Earth — Usami
- 1990Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
- 1990Paradise Nippon
- 1989Four Days of Snow and Blood — Ryoji Ishihara
- 1989Sensei — Akira Nakajima
- 1989Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
- 1988Gate of Flesh — Shintaro Ibuki
- 1988The Silk Road — Li Yuanhao
- 1987Golf Before Dawn
- 1987Samurai Rebellion — Futago Rokubei
- 1987Tokyo Blackout — Asakura Tatsuya
- 1986Beyond the Shining Sea — Atsushi Tanii
- 1986Cabaret — Yakuza
- 1986Death Shadows
- Sanada Taiheiki — Sanada Nobuyuki
- 1984Curtain Call — Takuji Shinozaki
- 1984Fushin no Toki
- 1984Marriage Counselor Tora-san — Tony
- 1984The Street of Desire — Sadaichi Yamakoshi
- 1983A Bridge of Tears
- 1983Amagi Pass — Matsunojo Tajima, the cop
- 1983Antarctica — Ochi
- 1983The Politicians — Takuro Sotoura
- 1983Time and Tide — Yasu-san
- ランドセルと目玉焼き — Kunio Hayasaka
- 1982Fossilized Wilderness — Sousuke Nishina
- 1982Gate of Youth 2 — Tadao Ishii
- 1982Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
- 1982Lovers Lost — Kozo Watanabe
- 1981Abandoned
- 1981Call from Darkness — Kazuo Harada
- 1981Gate of Youth — Kanayama
- 1981Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
- 1981Morning Moon Is Cruel — Kusakabe
- 1981Sailor Suit and Machine Gun — Makoto Sakuma
- 1980Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
- 1980Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo — Lower Hanzo
- 1980The Wicked — Lawyer Sakaki
- 1980Virus — Yasuo Tatsuno
- 1980Writhing Tongue — Akira Miyoshi
- 1979G.I. Samurai — Hayato Yano
- 1979Heaven Sent — Shinsaku Miura
- 1979The Three Undelivered Letters — Minegishi
- 197810th Degree Earthquake — Max
- 1978August Without Emperor — Akimasa Fujisaki
- 1978The Fall of Ako Castle — Kobayashi Heihachiro
- 1978The Incident — Takeshi Hanai
- 1977Japan's Don — Takeshi Nomizo
- 1977Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds — Takashi Ashizawa
- 1976A Savage Beast Goes Mad — Shin Hayami
- 1976Operation Plazma in Osaka
- 1976Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist — Shuji Takagi
- 1976The Great Okinawa Yakuza War — Hiroshi Kategaru
- 1976Violent Panic: The Big Crash — Takashi Yamanaka
- 1975New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss — Kunimitsu Sugawa
- 1975Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
- 1975Pimp Heaven
- 1975The Decisive Power of Aikido
- Unified Shadows
- 1974Code of Wolves
- 1974Father of the Kamikaze
- 1974Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown — Kuroki Tatsuya
- 1974Jeans Blues: No Future — Jiro Katagiri
- Katsu Kaishu — Tanaka Shinbei
- 1974New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 — Noboru Kitami
- 1974Student Yakuza
- 1974The Karate Man and the Spy — Tekken Sakuragi
- 1974The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
- 1974The Rapacious Jailbreaker — Tagami Kiyomatsu
- 1974The Tattooed Hitman — Kenichi Furuta
- 1974Third Generation Boss
- 1974Violent Fraternity
- 1974Woman Mobsters
- 1974Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
- 1973A True Story of the Private Ginza Police — Watarai
- 1973Aesthetics of a Bullet — Kiyoshi Koike
- 1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity — Toshio Arita
- 1973Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War — Takeshi Kuramoto
- 1973Bodyguard Kiba 2 — Takeshi Nanjo
- 1973Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School — Yôichi Kikumura
- 1973Hell Riders in Kyoto
- 1973Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
- 1973The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
- 1973The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers — Mao
- 1972Gang Warfare
- 1972Shōwa Gokudōshi
- 1972The Horrible Obsessions — Masayuki Shinshiro
- 1972The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
- 1972The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- 1972Wandering Ginza Butterfly — Ryūji
- 1972Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
- 1972Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro — Genta
- 1972Yakuza Skirmishes
- 1972Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences — Tetsu Nagakawa
- 1972Zorome no San Kyoudai
- 1971A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
- 1971Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess — Mari's friend
- 1971Fate Deals the Card of Death
- 1971Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival — Tatsumi Eiji
- 1971Sympathy for the Underdog — Shin Seki
- 1971The Armed Organization
- 1971The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
- 1971The Gambler's Counterattack — Takeji
- 1971Troops of Darkness
- 1971Wolves of the City: First to Fight
- 1971Wolves on Motorcycles
- 1970Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
- 1970Inside a Girl's Dormitory
- 1970Killer's Hit List
- 1970Prison Tales
- 1970The Experience
- 1970The Last Kamikaze
- 1970Three Pretty Devils
- 1970Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
- 刑事物語'85
- 白昼の死角(TV)