Fumio Watanabe
Acting
Biography
Fumio Watanabe October 31, 1929 – August 4, 2004 was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.
Born: October 31, 1929
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known For
The Tragedy of Bushido
A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the honor of his clan. His elder brother's wife, who has raised him as if he were her own child, asks her husband for permission to spend a single night with the young man and teach him the pleasures of the flesh, out of motherly mercy. However, the following day, an official decree is issued to ban suicide through fidelity...
Cobra
Japanese crime film.
High Seas Hijack
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
Kidnapping Blues
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Kanto Woman Yakuza
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
The Armed Organization
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. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Internal Sleuth
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
Filmography
as Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
as Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
as Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
as Police Chief
as Kumoru
as Stall Owner
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
as Takashi Nakagami
as Keizo Tashiro
as Reporter Tatsuya Iwado
as Kawata
as Tatsuya Iwado
as Miyashita
as Hayato Maejima
as Yoshita Kitani
as Lawyer
as Kenzo Kaizu
as Chujo
as Priest Kakinuma
as Renzo Mutaguchi
as Masuo Shimazaki
as Murakoshi
as 橘
as Inspector Goda
as Warden Goda
as Bizennokami Yagyû
as Akihito
as Yoshiichi Wakabayashi
as Head of Kikuna Clan
as Kamematsu Kamei
as Susumu
as Baba
as Moritaya Seizo
as Daimon
as Tadayoshi Genda
as Father
as Karo Kin
as Himself
as Shigekichi Karasawa
as 森村記者
as Iwasaki
as Koga
as Seiichiro Sawada
as Dokumushi
as Eiji Katasawa
as Education Officer
as Hayato Gondo
as Gorô Hyôdô
as Shimamura
as Oda Nobunaga / Kennyo
as Inspector Haraguchi
as Hanawa gang member
as 丘甫
as Tatsuo Sakurai
as Taiichi Kimura
as Football
as Tsuneo Sugiyama
as Haruaki Nozawa
as Yasuo Kawamura
as Yosehei
as Akimoto
as Yuji
as Sugiura
as Ishida
as Subway Sam
as Ichiro Nagamura
as Ayukawa
as Nishida
as Tatsumi Furuse