Tsunehiko Watase — Actor (30)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB
セーラー服と機関銃
director: Shinji Sōmai actor: Hiroko Yakushimaru / Yuki Kazamatsuri
other title: セーラー服と機関銃
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
The Fire Still Burns (1993) [TV] TMDB
炎立つ
director: Katsuhiko Takahashi actor: Hiroaki Murakami / Ken Watanabe
other title: 炎立つ
This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late Heian era. They established their domain in Touhoku area (North-east area of Japan), independent from the rule of Minamoto clan.
Antarctica (2011) [TV] TMDB
南極大陸~神の領域に挑んだ男と犬の物語~
director: Kitamura Yasuichi actor: Takuya Kimura / Haruka Ayase
other title: 南極大陸~神の領域に挑んだ男と犬の物語~
Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. After a year, the exploration team is ordered to withdraw from the Antarctic station due to severe weather conditions. The dogs have to be left behind. The following year, the next team arrives at the Showa Base station and a miraculous reunion occurs between a dog handler accompanying the new tean and two dogs, Taro and Shiro, that are brothers.
And Then There Were None (2017) [TV] IMDb TMDB
そして誰もいなくなった
actor: Yukie Nakama / Osamu Mukai
other title: そして誰もいなくなった
10 men and women are called to Natural Island Hotel on the isolated island Heitaijima off Yachijojima by the owner Nanao Shin. They take the dinner that has been prepared while filled with a mix of expectation and anxiety about what is going to happen and why they have been invited to this island. Then they suddenly start to hear a mysterious voice reveal their past crimes. As the 10 of them go through past incidents in their mind, one of the invited guests is murdered before their eyes. That seems to be the catalyst for the murder of another guest and then yet another. Several days after the invited guests came to Heitaijima, police head over to the island following the report of murders. They discover 10 murdered bodies on this big “locked room”. Who is the murderer and why did these 10 people have to be gathered and killed? ~ Based on the novel "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, published in 1943.
Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist (1976) [Movie] TMDB
女必殺五段拳
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Etsuko Shihomi / Mitchi Love
other title: 女必殺五段拳
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
新仁義なき戦い
other title: Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 1 / 新仁義なき戦い
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
赤穂城断絶
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Sonny Chiba
other title: A Queda do Castelo Ako / Last of the Ako Clan
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
Writhing Tongue (1980) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb
震える舌
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Mayuko Wakamori / Tsunehiko Watase
other title: 震动的舌头 / 震える舌
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at the conclusion that she has tetanus. Her parents have to bear the sufferings of their child. The once peaceful family has changed completely.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
仁義なき戦い 代理戦争
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Takeshi Katō
other title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Proxy War / 仁義なき戦い 代理戦争
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
男はつらいよ 夜霧にむせぶ寅次郎
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Kiyoshi Atsumi / Chieko Baisho
other title: Marions-les / 男はつらいよ 夜霧にむせぶ寅次郎
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss (1975) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
新仁義なき戦い 組長の首
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Meiko Kaji
other title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長の首 / Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 2 : La Tête du boss
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo (1980) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
影の軍団 服部半蔵
director: Eiichi Kudō actor: Teruhiko Saigō / Mikio Narita
other title: 影の軍団 服部半蔵
The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the political instability following the death of Iemitsu Tokugawa, Hanzo's Iga ninja clan battles against the Koga clan as various factions vie to seize power. The child shogun Ietsuna is kidnapped but turns out to be hidden under (or over) everyone's noses in a castle turret which is reinforced by a comic book villain, the fire-spitting black ninja. The good ninja has to get through all the traps & save the child.
Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972) [Movie] TMDB
銀蝶渡り鳥
other title: 銀蝶渡り鳥
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.
Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
銀蝶流れ者 牝猫博奕
director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi actor: Meiko Kaji / Sonny Chiba
other title: Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler / Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: The Wildcat Gambler
Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor — martial arts legend Sonny Chiba — in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looking for Hoshiden, the man who murdered her father and shattered her once-hopeful childhood. But living under an assumed name, Hoshiden could stay hidden forever.
The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) [Movie] TMDB
脱獄広島殺人囚
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Tatsuo Umemiya
other title: 脱獄広島殺人囚
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
Andromedia (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
アンドロメデイア
director: Takashi Miike actor: Hiroko Shimabukuro / Eriko Imai
other title: アンドロメデイア / 仙女座报告
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her soul.