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Jun Kunimura (國村 隼, Kunimura Jun, born Yoshihiro Yonemura (米村 喜洋, Yonemura Yoshihiro); 15 November 1955) is a Japanese actor who has performed in Japan, Hollywood and Hong Kong. He won Best Supporting Actor and the Popular Star Award at the 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards for his performance in the South Korean horror film The Wailing, directed by Na Hong-jin.

Jun Kunimura 國村隼
Born	Yoshihiro Yonemura (1955-11-15) 15 November 1955 (age 66) Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1976 - present
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Japanese name
Kanji	國村 隼
Hiragana	くにむら じゅん
Katakana	クニムラ ジュン
Transcriptions Romanization Kunimura Jun
Japanese name
Kanji	米村 喜洋
Hiragana	よねむら よしひろ
Katakana	ヨネムラ ヨシヒロ
Transcriptions Romanization Yonemura Yoshihiro
Website	t.me/junkunimura

Early life and education

Kunimura was born Yoshihiro Yonemura (米村 喜洋 Yonemura Yoshihiro) in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, but his family moved to Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture soon after, before moving again to Osaka when he was two years old. He graduated from a theatre program operated by the Osaka Broadcasting Corporation, a theatre company owned and operated by a local NHK affiliate. He has cited actor Yūsaku Matsuda as an influence.

Career

Kunimura began his acting career with a bit part in Shirō Moritani's 1973 disaster film Tidal Wave. He went on to appear in the TV dramas Ayu no Uta and Yôi don, before holding his first starring role in Kazuyuki Izutsu's Gaki Teikoku.[1] Throughout the late 80s and early 90s, he appeared in a number of Hong Kong-produced films, including a prominent cameo role in John Woo's Hard Boiled, as a Triad gunman in the film's opening teahouse shootout. In 1989, he starred in his first American film, Black Rain. The Ridley Scott-helmed Yakuza action film was shot on-location in Kunimura's hometown of Osaka, and starred his mentor Yūsaku Matsuda.

Kunimura is known internationally for his work with Western directors such as Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarantino, and Roland Emmerich.[2] He has collaborated with prominent Japanese filmmakers like Takashi Miike, Lee Sang-il, Hideaki Anno, and Ryuhei Kitamura. In 2016, he starred in Na Hong-jin's Korean horror film The Wailing, which earned him critical and popular acclaim. It earned him the Best Supporting Actor and Popular Star Awards at the 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards, making him the first-ever non-Korean and Japanese actor to be nominated for the award.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1973	Tidal Wave	Shoichi
1981	Gaki Teikoku	Choi
1989	Black Rain	Yashimoto	1st non-Japanese film
1991	Au Revoir, Mon Amour	Keiji
	The Blue Jean Monster	Kai
	Ōte	Emisu
1992	Hard Boiled	Teahouse Gunman
1993	All Under the Moon	Tada
1994	Treasure Hunt	Yamamoto
	Tokarefu	Det. Takahashi
1995	Heisei musekinin-ikka: Tokyo de luxe	Yoichi
1996	Somebody Up There Likes Me	Japanese Trainer
1997	Suzaku	Kōzō Tahara
	Wild Life	Ijima
	Ningen isu	Shoichiro Shimizu
1998	Begging for Love	Saburo Wachi
	The Story of PuPu	Kijima
1999	Keiho	Shibata Toshimitsu
	Audition	Yasuhisa Yoshikawa
	Mayonaka made	Noriyuki
2000	Ryûsei	Kirishima
	Dokuritsu shônen gasshô-dan	Michio's Father
	Chaos	Inspector Hamaguchi
	Face	Kenta Kariyama
	Gojoe	Suzaku-hougan
2001	Desert Moon	Kosugi
	Ichi the Killer	Funaki
	Ye long	The Contractor
2002	Misutâ rûkî	Yang
	Hi wa mata noboru	Koide
	Tomie: Forbidden Fruit	Kazuhiko Hashimoto
	The Laughing Frog	Akio Yoshizumi
	Alive	Kojima
	Sorry	Sei's Father
2003	Hoshi ni negaio	Jin Kirishima
	Samurai Resurrection	Saemon Jinno
	9 Souls	Yamamoto
	Tsuribaka Nisshi 14	Kawashima
	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Boss Tanaka
	Dead End Run	Jun
2004	Half a Confession	Manabu Uemura
	Kill Bill: Volume 2	Boss Tanaka
	Umizaru	Admiral Masaki Igarashi
	69	Sasaki
	Vital	Hideyoshi Ooyama
	Blood and Bones	Yong-sang Jo
	Lady Joker	Satoru Hirase
	Godzilla: Final Wars	Major Komuro
2005	Fuyu no Undoukai	Kitazawa Ryousuke
	Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean	Matoi Tokioka
	Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi	Kataoka
	Hanging Garden	Dan Kyobashi
2006	Limit of Love: Umizaru	Masaki Igarashi
	Hana	Isekan
	Baruto no Gakuen	Takagi
	Sinking of Japan	Kyosuke Nozaki
	Children	Shugoro Kihara
	Tsubakiyama Kacho no Nanokakan	Daisuke Ichikawa
2007	Three for the Road	Rental Salesman
	Silk	Umon
2008	Team Batista no Eikō	Gonta Takashina
	Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess	Nagakura
	God's Puzzle	Murakami
	Paco and the Magical Book	Kinomoto
	Yesterdays	Akihiko Yanagida
	K-20: Legend of the Mask	Genji
	Miyagino	Sharaku
2009	King of the Escape	Kanemura
	Mt. Tsurugidake	Seiichiro Yaguchi
2010	Saru Lock the Movie	Ogasawara
	After the Flowers	Jinzaemon Terat
	My Darling Is a Foreigner	Noriyuki Oguri
	Sunshine Ahead	Tatsuhei Hiki
	Outrage	Ikemoto
	Here Comes the Bride, My Mom!	Akira Murakami
	Saya Zamurai	The Lord
	Aibou: The Movie II	Muneo Hasegawa
2011	Synchronicity Shinju Tenshi	Ai's Father
	Moonlight Mask	The Impresario
	Monsters Club	Mr. Kakiuchi
2012	Reunion	Yoshito Shibata
2013	A Story of Yonosuke	Mr. Yosano
	The Incredible Truth	Sato Tsuyoshi
	Like Father, Like Son	Kazushi Kamiyama
	The Wind Rises	Hattori	Japanese-language version
	A Boy Called H	Yoshimura
	Why Don't You Play in Hell?	Muto
	Unforgiven	Masaharu Kitaoji
	Asa Hiru Ban	Asamoto
2014	Dakishimetai: Shinjitsu no Monogatari	Toshiro
	The World of Kanako	Dr. Tsujimura
	Parasyte: Part 1	Det. Hirama
2015	Attack on Titan	Kubal / Colossal Titan
	At Home	Genji
	Parasyte: Part 2	Det. Hirama
	The Big Bee	Nakatsuka
2016	Kokoro	Daisuke
	Chihayafuru Part 1	Hideo Harada
	Chihayafuru Part 2
	The Wailing	The Japanese Man
	Shin Godzilla	Chief of Staff Masao Zaizen
	Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate	Takumi Ukawa
2017	Hamon: Yakuza Boogie	Katsuji Shimada
	Mumon: The Land of Stealth	Kitabatake Tomonori
	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I	Ryohei Higashikata
	Manhunt	Yoshihiro Sakai
	Fullmetal Alchemist	Tim Marcoh
	Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura	Chief Daibutsu
2018	Punk Samurai Slash Down	Shuzen Oura
	The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan	Toshio
	Our Departures	Setsuo Okuzono
	Chihayafuru Part 3	Hideo Harada
	Jû-nen: Ten Years Japan	Shigeta	Segment: "Itazura dômei"
2019	The Great War of Archimedes	Marshal Admiral Osami Nagano
	Taro the Fool	Oda
	The Witness	Takashi Hirayama
	Midway	Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo
2020	Step
	Minamata	Junichi Nojima
	Tracing Her Shadow
	Poupelle of Chimney Tow	Dan (voice)
2021	Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction	Daisaku Nikaidō
	Gift of Fire
	Zokki
	Suicide Forest Village
	Kate	Kijima
2022	Just Remembering	Nakaido
	I Am Makimoto

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes	Ref.
2000	Aikotoba wa Yūki		Fuji TV
2008	Andō Natsu	Umekichi Yasuda	TBS
2009	Saka no Ue no Kumo	Kawakami Soroku	NHK
2012	Carnation	Kiichi Hanamura	NHK	Asadora
	Taira no Kiyomori	Fujiwara no Tadazane	NHK	Taiga drama
2014	Alice no Toge		TBS
2015	Keisei Saimin no Otoko Part 3	Takashi Miki	NHK	TV movie
2016	Shizumanu Taiyō		Wowow
	Ishikawa Goemon	Toyotomi Hideyoshi	TV Tokyo
2017	Hello, Detective Hedgehog		TBS
2019–21	The Naked Director	Iori Furuya	Netflix	2 seasons
2020	Gift of Fire	Bunsaku Arakatsu	NHK	TV movie
2021	Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses	Section chief	NHK	Miniseries	[3]
	Japan Sinks: People of Hope	Professor Tōru Sera	TBS		[4]
	Isoroku Yamamoto in London	Tsuneo Matsudaira	NHK	TV movie	[5]
2022	The 13 Lords of the Shogun	Ōba Kagechika	NHK	Taiga drama	[6]
	Modern Love Tokyo	Yoshimoto	Amazon Prime Video	Episode 5	[7]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2016	37th Blue Dragon Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor	The Wailing	Won [8]
		Popular Star Award		Won [9]
	25th Buil Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated
2017	11th Asian Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor		Nominated

References

External links

• Jun Kunimura at IMDb

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