Tsunehiko Watase
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1944-07-28
Place of Birth:Yasugi, Shimane, Japan
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Also Known As:Watase Tsunehiko, Tsunehiko Watase

Killer's Hit List (1970)
A 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another Ishii-directed film from 1970, also starring Watase,...

Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences (1972)
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.

Zorome no San Kyoudai (1972)
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together...

Student Yakuza (1974)
A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and a sense of justice rampages against a gangster.

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats (1972)
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...

The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail (1973)
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...

Pimp Heaven (1975)
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is...

Abandoned (1981)
The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned...

A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers (1971)
When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.

Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival (1971)
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil...

Jesus is My Boss (2001)
A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real-life "Mission Barabbas," a Christian...

Steel & Lead (1997)
A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his mission, the yakuza assigned to watch over him,...

Fossilized Wilderness (1982)
Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his...

Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage (1981)
Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa tattoo, in a...

Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword (1982)
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the...

Samurai Rebellion (1987)
Echizen Fukui Domain. Futago Rokubei, who backs down even at the sight of a gecko, is called "Coward Samurai" by others. His sister Kane blames him...

Nile (1999)
A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his sorrows and goes to Egypt on a mission to cover the...

Fushin no Toki (1984)
Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters (1970)
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a...

The Experience (1970)
Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.

The Last Kamikaze (1970)
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...

Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)
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,...

Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Wolves on Motorcycles (1971)
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess (1971)
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs...

Wolves of the City: First to Fight (1971)
Pinku from 1971.

The Horrible Obsessions (1972)
Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment...

Heaven and Earth (1990)
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across...

One Bowl of Kakesoba (1992)
Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One...

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1997)
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.

Andromedia (1998)
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...

Sanpei the Fisher Boy (2009)
Sanpei is a young boy who lives with his grandpa in a small village in Akita and they both love fishing and are masters at it. His sister moved to...

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974)
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...

Father of the Kamikaze (1974)
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated...

Jeans Blues: No Future (1974)
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster...

The Decisive Power of Aikido (1975)
It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he developed...

Carmen 1945 (1988)
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named...

Tokyo Blackout (1987)
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is...

Death Shadows (1986)
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high...

The Silk Road (1988)
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk...

Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984)
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...

Antarctica (1983)
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

A Bridge of Tears (1983)
Japanese drama film.

Time and Tide (1983)
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

Amagi Pass (1983)
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A...

The Great Okinawa Yakuza War (1976)
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after...

Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's...

Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist (1976)
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...

Gate of Youth 2 (1982)
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

Call from Darkness (1981)
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case...

Lovers Lost (1982)
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a...

Writhing Tongue (1980)
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...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga (1980)
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly...

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo (1980)
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...

August without Emperor (1978)
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
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...

G.I. Samurai (1979)
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai...

Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro (1972)
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying...

The Tattooed Hitman (1974)
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...

Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds (1977)
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.

Karate Killer (1973)
Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins...

Hell Riders in Kyoto (1973)
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even...

Aesthetics of a Bullet (1973)
A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School (1973)
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new...

The Incident (1978)
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

A Savage Beast Goes Mad (1976)
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is...

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss (1975)
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...

Fate Deals the Card of Death (1971)
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year...

Virus (1980)
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the...

Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989)
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

Yakuza Skirmishes (1972)
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police (1973)
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.

Violent Fraternity (1974)
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

Third Generation Boss (1974)
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers (1974)
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.

Crest of Betrayal (1994)
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a...

Gate of Youth (1981)
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...

Curtain Call (1984)
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her...

Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance (1970)
The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.

Maji! (1991)
Based on the comic book by Ayumi Tachihara.

Code of Wolves (1974)
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Woman Mobsters (1974)
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female...

The Armed Organization (1971)
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union....

The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup (1971)
This is the thirteenth film in the series.

Three Pretty Devils (1970)
A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into deep trouble.

Inspector Totsugawa Series 54 - The Woman of Sunrise Izumo (2015)

Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 37 - Mystery of Double Homicides from Tokyo to Hamamatsu (2015)

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman (1998)

Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: Murder of the Killer (1998)

The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974)
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.

The Gambler's Counterattack (1971)
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect...

The Karate Man and the Spy (1974)
In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a...

Beyond the Shining Sea (1986)
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid...

The Three Undelivered Letters (1979)
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...

Yakuza vs. Gang Leader (1974)
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.

Operation Plazma in Osaka (1976)
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.

1750 Days of Turbulence (1990)
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.

The Street of Desire (1984)
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.

The Wicked (1980)
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.

Heaven Sent (1979)
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a...

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973)
Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline...

The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers (1973)
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on...

Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode (1990)
Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life...

Japan's Don (1977)
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Troops of Darkness (1971)
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

Emperor of Upheaval (1993)
The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving.

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears (1993)

Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack (1975)
Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.

Haru Urara (2005)
Based on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single horse race she entered since her 1998 debut.

Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die (1989)
Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who dies in an accident and experiences the afterlife...

Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown (1974)
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.

Let's Get Happy (1998)
A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the dissolution of the Yamamuro group, it...

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang (1972)
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears,...

The Politicians (1983)
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love...

The Fire Still Burns (1993)
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...

Omiyasan (2002)
The head of the Information Division of the Kyoto Prefectural Police, Grass Wall Office (commonly known as the "Maze Division"), Kansaburo Torii, and...

And Then There Were None (2017)
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...

Chiritotechin (2007)
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl...

Antarctica (2011)
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...

Homicide Team 9 (2006)
The members of this elite investigative team are unique individuals with their own personal troubles, but what unites them is their strong sense of...

Unified Shadows (1975)
During the Tenpo period, the three samurai under the command of the Nanba magistrate were responsible for handling exceptional cases. However, their...

Sanada Taiheiki (1985)
The drama tells the story of the Sanada family. Originally serving the Takeda Clan they ruled the northern district of Shinano. The story begins...

Katsu Kaishu (1974)
Katsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū "

The Bubble (2001)
It's the glittering 80s, and Japan's bubble economy is in full swing. There is a fortune to be made for those who have the brains, determination and...

Back of Father (2014)
A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.