Tetsuya Watari

Tetsuya Watari (渡 哲也)
Born Michihiko Watase (渡瀬 道彦) [1]
(1941-12-28) December 28, 1941 [1]
Awaji, Hyōgo, Japan [1]
Occupation Actor
Years active 1964-present
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

Tetsuya Watari (渡 哲也, Watari Tetsuya, born December 28, 1941) is a Japanese film, stage, and television actor. He made his screen debut in 1964, in Isamu Kosugi's Abare Kishidō.[1]

Watari was mentored at Nikkatsu by Yujiro Ishihara. When Nikkatsu shifted to focusing on Roman Porno films in the early seventies, Watari was one of many of their actors who left the studio.[2]

He was the president of Ishihara Promotion after Yujiro's death in 1987[3] but in 2011 he resigned due to his health conditions.

On June 10, 2015 he was hospitalised for acute myocardial infarction and underwent surgery. On July 17 it was announced that he was in rehabilitation and would be discharged from hospital in about a month.

He has a younger brother, Tsunehiko Watase, who is also an actor.[4]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleDirectorOther notes
1965Abare Kishidō (あばれ騎士道)TetsuyaIsamu Kosugi
NakaseruzeAkinori Matsuo
1966Tokyo DrifterTetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" HondoSeijun SuzukiLead role
Ai to Shi no KirokuKoreyoshi KuraharaLead role
1967Kurenai no NagareboshiToshio MasudaLead role
1968Outlaw: Gangster VIPGorō FujikawaToshio MasudaLead role
Moeru TairikuKeiichi IsomuraShōgorō NishimuraLead role
1973Gokiburi KeijiDetective NarugamiTsugunobu KotaniLead role
The GokiburiDetective NarugamiTsugunobu KotaniLead role
Ningen KakumeiKumichō ShimataniToshio Masuda
1975Graveyard of HonorRikio IshikawaKinji FukasakuLead role
1976Yakuza GraveyardDetective KuroiwaKinji FukasakuLead role
1986Tokei – Adieu l'hiverSō Kuramoto
1993Kinchan no Cinema Jack "Minato"Kinichi Hagimoto
1996Waga Kokoro no Ginga Tetsudō Miyazawa Kenji MonogatariSeijirōKazuki Ōmori
1997YūkaiInspector TsunamiTakao OkawaraLead role
1998Diary of Early Winter ShowerShinichiro SawaiLead role
2000Nagasaki Burabura bushiGakusha (Koga, Jûjirô)Yukio FukamachiLead role
2001BrotherJinseikai KumichōTakeshi Kitano
2002Shura no Mure[5]Old Hiroyuki InaharaHiroyuki Tsuji
2004Lady JokerSeizo MonoiHideyuki HirayamaLead role
2005YamatoVice-Admiral Seiichi ItōJunya Sato

Television

YearTitleRoleOther notes
1976-79Daitokai (大都会)Raisuke Kuroiwa
1979-84Seibu KeisatsuKeisuke Daimon
1996HideyoshiOda NobunagaTaiga drama
2005YoshitsuneTaira no KiyomoriTaiga drama
2009-2011Saka no Ue no KumoTōgō Heihachirō

Video games

YearTitleRoleOther notes
2005Ryū ga GotokuShintaro Kazama
2006Ryū ga Gotoku 2Shintaro Kazama
2009Ryū ga Gotoku 3Jōji Kazama
2015Ryū ga Gotoku 0: Chikai no BashoShintaro Kazama
2016Ryū ga Gotoku: KiwamiShintaro Kazama

Honours

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Tetsuya Watari official profile" (in Japanese). Ishihara Promotion. Archived from the original on December 28, 2008. Retrieved October 10, 2008.
  2. ↑ Mes, Tom, Graveyard of Honor DVD booklet, 2004, Home Vision Entertainment. Retrieved 2014-08-29
  3. ↑ "Ishihara Promotion company profile" (in Japanese). Ishihara Promotion. Retrieved October 10, 2008.
  4. ↑ "Office Kitano: Brother". Office Kitano. Retrieved October 10, 2008.
  5. ↑ 修羅の群れ〈2001年〉 (in Japanese). PIA Corporation. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
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