Japanese media revealed on the 14th that Tetsuya Watanabe, a powerful Japanese actor known for his popular works such as Metropolis and Western Police, died of pneumonia on August 10 at the age of 78.
Born in 1941 in Yasurai, Shimane Prefecture, Japan, Tetsuya Watanabe grew up in Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, and in 1964, while studying at the Faculty of Economics at Aoyama Gakuin, he starred in the film "Execution" by the famous movie star Ruriko Asaka, and has since embarked on an acting career. In 1965, Tetsuya Watanabe won the New Artist Award from the Works Association for his performance (youth verdict), and in 1976, he won the "Daily Movie" and the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for his outstanding performance in "Rogue's Graveyard Gardenia" directed by Fukasaku Shinji.
Subsequently, he starred in the Metropolitan series, as well as the Western Police, which set off a series of peaks in ratings at that time, and his tough guy image in the TV series was also deeply popular in Japan.
Tetsuya Watanabe won numerous awards in the film and television drama industry in his lifetime, and his 1973 album "くちなしの花", which was published as a singer, also set a record of 1.5 million copies at the time, and was twice staged in the year-end NHK Red and White Song Contest in 1974 and 1993.
In terms of feelings, Tetsuya Watanabe and the popular Japanese actress Yoshinaga Koyuri's relationship is the most regrettable, the two came together in 1966 because of the movie (love and death record), fell in love for two years due to the opposition of Yoshinaga Koyuri's parents, and then in 1971 Watanabe Tetsuya married Toshiko in Hawaii, usa, and two years after Watsu tetsuya's marriage, Yoshinaga Saiduri married Yoshinaga Taro Okada, who was 15 years older than himself.
After many years, the two appeared on the screen again in 2019 for the Japanese sake brand Shochiku Plum advertising, perhaps for them life is as mellow and bitter as wine, the end of the article wish tetsuya Watanabe all the way to good.