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Acting

Tetsuya Watari

Career: Active from 1965 to 2013, busiest in 1968 with 7 main titles.

Leading roles: 53
top three billing

Average score: 71/100

Highest rated: Yakuza Graveyard
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 10 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Tetsuya Watari Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.2, average 5.4
Wholesome
1.2, average 3.4
Situational Comedy
0.7, average 2.7
Wonder
1.5, average 3.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Political Intrigue 7
Character-Driven 4
Social Commentary 3
Yakuza Film 3
Feudal Japan 3
Character Study 3
Yakuza Underworld 2
Historical Drama 2
Moral Ambiguity 2
Loyalty and Betrayal 2
Gritty Realism 2
Crime Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

70

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

2 titles · average score 67

No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35

67

TV show · as Yukinobu Asada

Villain

as Masato Kogure

2000s

17 titles · average score 68

Clouds Over the Hill

77

TV show · as 東郷平八郎

Flower of Ice

TV show

The Street Lawyers

TV show

Gion Bayashi

TV show

Yoshitsune

TV show · as Taira no Kiyomori (Hei-shi)

Lady Joker

as Seizo Monoi

TV show

Western Police Special

as Keisuke Daimon

AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo

TV show · as Muneaki Seta

TV show

TV show

Brother

60

as Jinseikai Boss

1990s

10 titles

Diary of Early Winter Shower

as Kounosuke Mibu

Bloody Journal of the Shinsengumi

TV show · as Kondo Isami

Abduction

as Hiroshi Tsuba

Hideyoshi

TV show · as Oda Nobunaga

SMAP×SMAP

TV show · as Skit Guest

Night Train to the Stars

as Masajiro Miyazawa

Sangokushi: The Yangtze Is Burning!

as Cao Cao (voice)

The Four Beast Guardians 5 - Scarecrow Hanbei's Lawless Journey

as Tetsuya Watari

Great Conquest: The Romance of Three Kingdoms

as Cao Cao (voice)

Daihyô torishimariyaku deka

TV show

1980s

1 title

Goryokaku

as Toshizo Hijikata

1970s

17 titles · average score 74

Seibu Keisatsu

TV show · as Daimon Keisuke

Haguregumo

TV show

浮浪云

TV show

Yakuza Graveyard

86

as Ryu Kuroiwa

Big City: Days of Struggle

TV show

Graveyard of Honor

59

as Rikio Ishikawa

Stray Dog

77

as Detective Murakami

The Blossom and the Sword

as Seijirô Tanaka

Epic Chushingura

TV show · as Horibe Yasubei

Law of the Outlaw

as Goro Takei

Step on the Gas!

as Yuuji Nishigami

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

as Yohei Kada

1960s

23 titles · average score 70

Outlaw: Kill!

68

as Goro Fujikawa

The Cleanup

as Kurasawa

Outlaw: Gangster VIP

69

as Goro Fujikawa

Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

66

as Goro Fujikawa

Outlaw: Black Dagger

as Goro Fujikawa

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

69

as Goro Fujikawa

Outlaw: Heartless

67

as Goro Fujikawa

Velvet Hustler

67

as Goro

Tokyo Drifter

83

as Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo

The Heart of Hiroshima

as Yukio Mihara

The Stormy Man

as Shôichi Kokubu

Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love

as Tetsu