(July 28, 1944 – March 14, 2017) was a Japanese

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known for portraying Rintaro Kano in ''Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9 Gakari'' ("Homicide Team 9"). He won the award for best supporting actor at the 2nd Japan Academy Prize for '' The Incident'' and at the 3rd

Hochi Film Award The are film-specific prizes awarded by the ''Hochi Shimbun , previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. ...

for '' The Incident'', '' Kōtei no inai hachigatsu'' and ''

The Fall of Ako Castle is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It depicts the story of the forty-seven Ronin (''Chūshingura''). The film is one of a series of period films by Fukasaku starring Yorozuya Kinnosuke, including ...

''. His older brother is the actor

Tetsuya Watari born (December 28, 1941 – August 10, 2020) was a Japanese film, stage, and television actor. Life He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Watari belonged to the karate club at university. He made his screen debut in 1964, in Isamu Kosugi ...

Death

Tsunehiko Watase died at a hospital in Tokyo on Tuesday, his office said Thursday. He was 72. Watase had been undergoing treatment after a tumor was found in his

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in 2015. He died of multiple organ failure, his office said.

Filmography

Film

* '' Sympathy for the Underdog'' (1971) * ''

Wandering Ginza Butterfly is a 1972 Japanese gangster film directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, and co-written with Isao Matsumoto. The movie stars Meiko Kaji and Tsunehiko Watase. The movie was followed with a 1972 sequel entitled '' Gincho Nagaremono: Mesuneko Bakuchi.'' Pl ...

'' (1972) * ''

Battles Without Honor and Humanity , also known in the West as ''The Yakuza Papers'', is a Japanese yakuza film series produced by Toei Company. Inspired by a series of magazine articles by journalist Kōichi Iiboshi that are based on memoirs originally written by real-life yak ...

'' (1973) * '' Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War'' (1973) * '' Bodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi'' (1973) *'' Aesthetics of a Bullet'' (1973) * '' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' (1974) * '' New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Boss's Head'' (1975) * '' Violent Panic: The Big Crash'' (1976) * ''

Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds , also known in the U.S. as ''The "Legend of Dinosaurs"'', is a 1977 Japanese kaiju science fiction film produced and distributed by Toei Company. The film was initially unsuccessful in Japan, but later became an overseas blockbuster in the Sov ...

'' (1977) * ''

'' (1978) * '' The Incident'' (1978) * '' Kōtei no inai hachigatsu'' (1978) * '' Heaven Sent'' (1979) * ''

G.I. Samurai aka ''Time Slip'', is a 1979 Japanese science fiction/ action film focusing on the adventures of a modern-day Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) team that accidentally travels in time to the . The ...

'' (1979) * ''

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'' (1980) * '' Sailor Suit and Machine Gun'' (1981) * '' The Gate of Youth'' (1981) * ''

Dotonbori River , also released as ''Lovers Lost'', is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The title refers to the area of Dōtonbori. Plot A nineteen-year-old aspiring painter named Kunihiko Yasuoka meets a woman when her dog Kotaro knocks over hi ...

'' (1982) * ''

Nankyoku Monogatari is a 1983 Japanese drama film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and starring Ken Takakura. Its plot centers on the 1958 ill-fated Japanese scientific expedition to the South Pole, its dramatic rescue from the impossible weather conditions on the ...

'' (1983) * '' Heaven and Earth'' (1990) * ''

Crest of Betrayal ''Crest of Betrayal'', known in Japan as , is a 1994 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Written by Motomu Furuta and Fukasaku, it combines two enduring Japanese legends; ''Chūshingura'', which tells the story of the historical forty-seven ...

'' (1994) * ''

Tokyo Blackout (Disappearance of the Capital) is a 1987 Japanese science fiction film directed by Toshio Masuda. It is based on Sakyo Komatsu's novel ''Shuto shōshitsu'' which won the 6th Nihon SF Taisho Award in 1985. The film's score was composed by Mau ...

'' (1987) * '' Toki o Kakeru Shōjo'' (1997) * ''

Andromedia is a 1998 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. The film features the Japanese musical groups Speed and Da Pump. Plot High school students Mainosuke "Mai" Hitomi and Yuu kiss for the first time. Later that same day Mai is hit by a truck and k ...

'' (1998)

Television

* ''

Oshin is a Japanese serialized morning television drama (''asadora''), which originally aired on NHK from 4 April 1983 to 31 March 1984; it is the 31st ''asadora'' overall to be produced. The 297 15-minute episodes follow the life of during the Me ...

'' (1983-1984) * ''

Sanada Taiheiki is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast on NHK in 1985–1986. It is based on Shōtarō Ikenami's novel Sanada Taiheiki. The drama focuses on the history of the Sanada clan during the late Sengoku period. The compl ...

'' (1985-1986) -

Sanada Nobuyuki was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period. He was the son of ''daimyō'' Sanada Masayuki and the older brother of Sanada Yukimura. Early life He was the first son of Sanada Masayuki and his wife, Kansho-in. His younger brother was Sanada ...

* '' Inspector Totsugawa Series'' (1992-2015) - Inspector Totsugawa * '' Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary'' (1992-2016) - Yoake * ''Homura Tatsu'' (1993-1994) -

Fujiwara no Hidehira was the third ruler of Northern Fujiwara in Mutsu Province, Japan, the grandson of Fujiwara no Kiyohira. During the Genpei War, he controlled his territory independently of the central government; however, he was the official imperial governor f ...

* ''Musashi'' (2003) * ''Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9 Gakari'' (2005-2017) - Rintaro Kano * '' Omiya-san'' (2008-2009)

References

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* 1944 births 2017 deaths Japanese male television actors People from Shimane Prefecture Japanese male film actors 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-century Japanese male actors {{Japan-screen-actor-stub