Occupation Actor Died February 27, 1977 Role Film actor | Name Atsushi Watanabe Years active 1921-1970 | |
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Born 9 April 1898 Tokyo, Japan Movies To Live, Yojimbo, One Wonderful Sunday, The Lower Depths, Sorcerer's Orb Similar People Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa, Kazuo Miyagawa, Fumio Hayasaka, Masaru Sato | ||
Atsushi Watanabe (渡辺 篤, Watanabe Atsushi, 9 April 1898 – 27 February 1977) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1921 to 1970.
Career
Starting out in Asakusa Opera, Watanabe shifted to film in 1921, joining Makino Educational Pictures, a precursor to Makino Film Productions. Moving to other studios, he eventually settled at Shochiku's Kamata studio in 1925 and eventually became established as a comic star, often appearing in Torajiro Saito's films. He eventually joined the revue company of Roppa Furukawa and made films at Toho. In the postwar, he appeared in a number of films by Akira Kurosawa.
References
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