Fumio Watanabe

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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.

Known For

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Bizennokami Yagyû

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

Sanbô

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

Warden Goda

Late Autumn

Tsuneo Sugiyama

Equinox Flower

Ichiro Nagamura

The Street Fighter

Renzo Mutaguchi

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Inspector Goda

Death by Hanging

Education Officer

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2002	修羅のみち4 北九州代理戦争 MOVIE	Self
2002	金融腐蝕列島再生 MOVIE	Self
1997	Shura ga Yuku 6 MOVIE	Self
1996	Delicious Relation TV	Self
1996	Sanctuary - Part 3 MOVIE	Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
1995	Sanctuary - Part 2 MOVIE	Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
1995	Sanctuary MOVIE	Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
1988	Dogra Magra MOVIE	Police Chief
1987	Tokyo Blackout MOVIE	Kumoru
1983	The Key MOVIE	Self
1983	Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun TV	Self
1982	Kidnapping Blues MOVIE	Stall Owner
1980	Shogun's Ninja MOVIE	Tokugawa Ieyasu
1978	Japanese Godfather: Conclusion MOVIE	Takashi Nakagami
1978	The Great Chase TV	Self
1977	The Skies of Haruo MOVIE	Self
1977	Japanese Godfather: Ambition MOVIE	Keizo Tashiro
1977	High Seas Hijack MOVIE	Reporter Tatsuya Iwado
1975	Deep Throat in Tokyo MOVIE	Kawata
1975	Main Line to Terror MOVIE	Self
1975	Conflagration MOVIE	Tatsuya Iwado
1975	The Bullet Train MOVIE	Miyashita
1975	The Great Chase MOVIE	Hayato Maejima
1975	The Viper Brothers and the Young General MOVIE	Self
1975	Without Complaint MOVIE	Yoshita Kitani
1974	It Was a Faint Dream MOVIE	Self
1974	City of Corruption MOVIE	Self
1974	My Way MOVIE	Lawyer
1974	The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers MOVIE	Self
1974	The Tattooed Hitman MOVIE	Kenzo Kaizu
1974	The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges MOVIE	Self
1974	Cobra MOVIE	Chujo
1974	The Transgressor MOVIE	Priest Kakinuma
1974	The Street Fighter MOVIE	Renzo Mutaguchi
1973	A Japanese Demon MOVIE	Self
1973	The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers MOVIE	Self
1973	Gokudo of Kamagasaki MOVIE	Self
1973	Dangerous Trade in Kobe MOVIE	Masuo Shimazaki
1973	A Diary of a Woman Doctor MOVIE	Self
1973	Internal Sleuth MOVIE	Murakoshi
1973	Hijo no License TV	橘
1973	Quarreling with Yakuza MOVIE	Self
1972	Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 MOVIE	Inspector Goda
1972	Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers MOVIE	Satake
1972	Nemuri Kyoshiro TV	Self
1972	Yakuza Skirmishes MOVIE	Self
1972	A Narcotics Agent's Ballad MOVIE	Self
1972	Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion MOVIE	Warden Goda
1972	Shōwa Gokudōshi MOVIE	Self
1972	The Lucky Status Symbol MOVIE	Self
1972	Modern Lady Gambler MOVIE	Self
1972	The Erotomaniac Daimyo MOVIE	Self
1972	Gang Warfare MOVIE	Self
1972	シークレット部隊 TV	Self
1972	A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell MOVIE	Self
1972	Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance MOVIE	Bizennokami Yagyû
1971	Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor MOVIE	Yoshiichi Wakabayashi
1971	The Insatiable MOVIE	Akihito
1971	The Armed Organization MOVIE	Self
1971	Troops of Darkness MOVIE	Self
1971	The Gambler's Counterattack MOVIE	Head of Kikuna Clan
1971	The Gambling Nun MOVIE	Self
1971	Story of Japanese Bad Men MOVIE	Self
1971	Wet Sand in August MOVIE	Kamematsu Kamei
1971	Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion MOVIE	Self
1971	Patience Has An End MOVIE	Self
1971	The Ceremony MOVIE	Susumu
1971	King of Pornography MOVIE	Self
1971	Dagger MOVIE	Self
1971	Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments MOVIE	Self
1971	The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule MOVIE	Self
1970	Evil Spirits of Japan MOVIE	Baba
1970	Thugs of Shinjuku MOVIE	Self
1970	Live Today, Die Tomorrow! MOVIE	Self
1970	Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate MOVIE	Self
1970	Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss MOVIE	Self
1970	Brothers of Capones MOVIE	Self
1970	The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan MOVIE	Moritaya Seizo
1970	House of Gamblers MOVIE	Self
1970	Bloodstained Clan of Honor MOVIE	Daimon
1970	Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers MOVIE	Self
1970	Wolves of the City: Checkmate MOVIE	Self
1969	Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers MOVIE	Self
1969	Kanto Street Peddlers MOVIE	Tadayoshi Genda
1969	The Private Police MOVIE	Self
1969	Boy MOVIE	Father
1969	A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw MOVIE	Self
1969	The Cross of Vengeance MOVIE	Self
1969	Sky Scraper! MOVIE	Self
1969	The Bad Boss 3 MOVIE	Self
1969	The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game MOVIE	Self
1969	Yakuza on Foot MOVIE	Karo Kin
1969	Kanto Onna Gokudo MOVIE	Self
1969	Diary of a Shinjuku Thief MOVIE	Himself
1968	Rogue MOVIE	Shigekichi Karasawa
1968	Vampires TV	森村記者
1968	Shogun's Joy of Torture MOVIE	Self
1968	Kanto Woman Yakuza MOVIE	Self
1968	The Cheating Underworld MOVIE	Iwasaki
1968	Outlaw: Heartless MOVIE	Koga
1968	Industrial Spy MOVIE	Seiichiro Sawada
1968	The Bad Boss MOVIE	Self
1968	Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair MOVIE	Self
1968	Three Resurrected Drunkards MOVIE	Dokumushi
1968	The Domain: Severed Relations MOVIE	Self
1968	Gambler's Farewell MOVIE	Eiji Katasawa
1968	Death by Hanging MOVIE	Education Officer
1968	Women's Prison MOVIE	Self
1968	A History of the Japanese Underworld MOVIE	Self
1967	The Hoodlum Priest MOVIE	Self
1967	Yanagase Blues MOVIE	Hayato Gondo
1967	The Domain: Where The Blade Enters MOVIE	Self
1967	Invitation to Jail MOVIE	Self
1967	Young Boss, Fugitive MOVIE	Self
1967	Organized Violence II MOVIE	Gorô Hyôdô
1967	The Gambler's Law MOVIE	Self
1967	Dissolution Rites MOVIE	Shimamura
1967	Organized Violence MOVIE	Self
1967	Five Star Private MOVIE	Self
1967	Band of Ninja MOVIE	Oda Nobunaga / Kennyo
1966	A Woman's Gamble MOVIE	Self
1966	Inochi hateru hi made MOVIE	Self
1966	Violence at Noon MOVIE	Inspector Haraguchi
1966	Silence Has No Wings MOVIE	Self
1965	Brutal Tales of Chivalry MOVIE	Self
1965	Pleasures of the Flesh MOVIE	Hanawa gang member
1964	Uzushio TV	丘甫
1963	Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin MOVIE	Self
1962	Four Sisters MOVIE	Tatsuo Sakurai
1962	Yume de aritai MOVIE	Self
1962	Nippon no obaachan MOVIE	Self
1962	石ころの唄 MOVIE	Self
1961	As the Clouds Scatter MOVIE	Self
1961	Hikkoshi yatsure MOVIE	Self
1961	Epitaph to My Love MOVIE	Taiichi Kimura
1961	Killers on Parade MOVIE	Football
1961	Hijō no otoko MOVIE	Self
1960	The Tragedy of Bushido MOVIE	Self
1960	Late Autumn MOVIE	Tsuneo Sugiyama
1960	The River Fuefuki MOVIE	Self
1960	Night and Fog in Japan MOVIE	Haruaki Nozawa
1960	Volunteering for Villainy MOVIE	Yasuo Kawamura
1960	The Sun's Burial MOVIE	Yosehei
1960	Good-for-Nothing MOVIE	Self
1960	Cruel Story of Youth MOVIE	Akimoto
1960	Only She Knows MOVIE	Self
1960	Girls Behind the Bars MOVIE	Self
1960	Shisha to no kekkon MOVIE	Self
1959	The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity MOVIE	Sanbô
1959	Street of Love and Hope MOVIE	Yuji
1959	Red Pants MOVIE	Self
1959	Umi no Chizu MOVIE	Sugiura
1959	Donto ikōze MOVIE	Self
1959	ある落日 MOVIE	Self
1959	Bridge MOVIE	Self
1958	Maria of the Ant Village MOVIE	Self
1958	The Girl Who Creates Tomorrow MOVIE	Ishida
1958	One Step to Happiness MOVIE	Self
1958	The Undefeated Woman MOVIE	Self
1958	The Invisible Wall MOVIE	Self
1958	Yurakucho 0 Street MOVIE	Subway Sam
1958	Equinox Flower MOVIE	Ichiro Nagamura
1958	Thirst MOVIE	Self
1958	Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen MOVIE	Ayukawa
1958	その手にのるな MOVIE	Self
1957	Black River MOVIE	Nishida
1957	Elegy of the North MOVIE	Tatsumi Furuse
1957	Flying in the Air MOVIE	Self
1956	俺は死なない MOVIE	Self
1956	Seishun no oto MOVIE	Self
1956	Fountainhead MOVIE	Self

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