Atsushi Watanabe (actor)


Atsushi Watanabe 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.

Selected filmography