Date of birth: 1929-10-31
Place of birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Фумио Ватанабэ, 渡边文雄

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.

1968-01-27
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortu

1969-02-22
Japanese crime film

1961-06-09
Manao Horiuchi movie

1956-02-26
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

1962-01-14
1962 Japanese movie

1968-10-12
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining

1971-05-02
Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimens

1972-01-15
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag

1966-07-15
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering

1977-10-29
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking con

1972-12-30
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a

1965-08-29
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled mon

1972-08-25
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she

1970-01-31
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the b

1970-12-26
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. W

1997-09-19
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster

1969-11-08
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by

1971-12-17
The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enoug

1959-03-04
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

1960-06-03
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for

1957-10-23
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land

1968-02-02
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorit

1968-09-28
A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishme

1970-10-17
An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack

1969-07-26
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

1969-02-15
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a b

1971-08-25
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their ha

1968-03-30
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority w

1970-01-20
After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure

1975-12-05
Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and qu

1982-10-09
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch

1974-09-07
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her hu

1970-03-29
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of h

1965-10-01
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Ka

1959-06-30
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team a

1980-11-15
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi

1969-05-14
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

2002-01-13

1958-02-16
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag conta

1958-11-11

1956-08-21

1959-11-17
The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him,

1960-08-09
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitu

1960-10-09
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look

1957-01-09
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

1971-08-26
Toei yakuza film.

1960-11-30
A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and p

1971-07-18
Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

1968-08-24

1970-10-31
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department

1969-05-01
13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

1973-05-12
1973 Toei movie.

1968-08-01
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gamblin

1961-02-19
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews whe
1971-09-07
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. Wh

1959-11-20
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K

1974-02-16
Japanese crime film.
1977-12-19
1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

1968-05-21
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corpo

1960-07-05
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness

1977-10-20
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.

1987-01-16
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr

1957-09-01
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithf

1988-10-15
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum wit

1958-09-07
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares

1968-05-06
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It last

1972-01-22
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil

1960-09-20
Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

1972-10-25
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s rele

1968-02-09
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza

1975-07-05
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows

1972-06-09
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touch

1967-06-29

1966-11-26
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami

1960-02-02
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train ac

1975-09-06
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a

1968-01-14
The hero tries to unite various gangs.

1973-04-21
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin

1969-09-06
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kami

1959-06-08
Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.

1967-04-01
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order

1973-03-03
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most power

1974-06-01
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst

1972-05-26
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betra

1961-05-16
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Ch

1970-01-09
This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1

1971-06-25
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucr

1967-05-03

1969-03-30
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug traffic

1972-04-14

1972-09-29
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit

1970-04-18
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stif

1970-05-23
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trad

1958-10-15
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

1975-02-01
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

1971-11-10
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat

1962-07-01
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with ea

1972-09-06
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitu

1968-08-14
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.

1978-09-09
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ

1971-10-14
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has

1967-02-25
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

1969-05-31
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfri

1969-11-20
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangste

1974-02-02
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnapper

1960-10-19
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo

1968-05-01
The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, ki

1970-12-18
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting i

1983-12-24

1960-04-01
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating

1960-11-13
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular

1958-12-07
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young

1966-02-11
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this al

1962-01-03
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo

1969-05-06
A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.

1959-07-01
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko,

1973-09-01
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his broth

1973-06-07
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to c

1967-11-15
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to

1973-09-29

1969-05-24
Film with Junko Miyazono.

1972-04-26
Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan.

1971-05-18
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses rit

1995-12-18
Two people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the Kanto re

1995-01-21
Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but

1996-02-25
Standing in the way of Hojo and Asami is Secretary-General Isaoka, and a new enemy, the Russian Mafi

1971-02-25
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a vil

1970-06-20
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his

1971-11-10
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later

1967-02-25

1967-09-15
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

1974-02-16
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrib

1967-08-12

1971-02-17
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.

1971-04-28

1975-03-01
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side

1974-04-27
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n

1974-03-01
Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered,

1963-09-21

1974-10-19

1960-03-04
Story of girls in a Japanese reform school.

1967-09-15
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

1968-02-22
The Domain: Severed Relations

1975-04-26
Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Servic

1967-09-02

1958-06-01

1972-06-15

1961-07-09
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once

1973-06-20
Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his hench

1958-10-21

1959-04-28

1971-12-17
Yuki Onozaki, who was studying at a Women's College in Tokyo, was originally a young and ignorant gi

1966-11-26
1966 Japanese movie

1974-10-26
Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peas

1961-02-13
1961 Japanese movie

2002-07-31

1958-03-11
Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, ce

1958-12-07
A story set in a small harmonica factory in Kita-Senju that celebrates the love lives of young worke

1967-02-15
The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's dea

1958-10-07
A satirical comedy set in Tokyo's new landmark food center in Yurakucho.

1975-07-12
Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in T