Tetsuya Watari

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-12-28 (79 years old)

Deathday

2020-08-10

Place of Birth

Awaji Island, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan

Tetsuya Watari

Biography

He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Watari belonged to the karate club at university. He made his screen debut in 1964, in Isamu Kosugi's Abare Kishidō, and received one of the Elan d'or Awards. At Nikkatsu, Watari appeared in such films as Tokyo Drifter and the Outlaw series. 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 actors who left the studio. Watari was due to play the main role in Kinji Fukasaku’s film Battles Without Honor and Humanity, but because of illness he was not able to appear. In 1974, he was forced to step d...

Acting

2004

Lady Joker

as Seizo Monoi

1970

1969

The Cleanup

as Kurasawa

1988

Goryokaku

as Toshizo Hijikata

1969

The Wild Sea

as Yoji Kitami

1966

Tokyo Drifter

as Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo

1976

Yakuza Graveyard

as Ryu Kuroiwa

1969

前科・仮釈放

as Ôhara Ryûji

1973

Rebellion Reward

as Shun Muraki

1975

Graveyard of Honor

as Rikio Ishikawa

1967

1968

East China Sea

as Naoyoshi

2012

Villain

as Masato Kogure

1968

Outlaw: Gangster VIP

as Goro Fujikawa

1975

Conflagration

as Third Officer Inoue

1968

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

as Goro Fujikawa

1968

Outlaw: Heartless

as Goro Fujikawa

1968

1968

Outlaw: Black Dagger

as Goro Fujikawa

1969

Outlaw: Kill!

as Goro Fujikawa

1973

Stray Dog

as Detective Murakami

1996

Night Train to the Stars

as Masajiro Miyazawa

1969

Showdown at Nagasaki

as Keiji Takama

1998

1973

The Blossom and the Sword

as Seijirô Tanaka

1965

1967

1966

The Stormy Man

as Shôichi Kokubu

1966

Love Eternal

as Makoto Kanô

1966

The Heart of Hiroshima

as Yukio Mihara

1966

Red Glass

as Hiroshi

1968

Song of my Life

as Takuya Tsugami

1967

Dreams Come True at Night

as Makoto Katagiri

2005

2000

Brother

as Jinseikai Boss

1971

Law of the Outlaw

as Goro Takei

1984

1971

The Earth is Born Again

as Hironosuke Nakadate

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