Jun Kunimura Net Worth 2021: Age, Movies, Bio.

He is a Japanese actor who has performed in Japan, Hollywood and Hong Kong. Jun Kunimura Net Worth 2021 is in many millions he has earned by his acting profession as his primary source of income. He has received the award for best-supporting actor and the most famous Popular Star Award in 37 Blue Dragon Awards for his amazing performance in the South Korean horror movie  The Wailing it was released in the year 2016 and was directed by Na Hong Jin. This movie earned him so much popularity Internationally & also making him the first-ever non-Korean & Japanese actor to be nominated for the Award.

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Early Life

He was born on 16th November in 1955. He was born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Kumamoto Prefecture is located on the island of Kyushu in Japan

He has completed the graduation from a theatre programme operated by the  “Osaka Broadcasting Corporation”. A radio station of National radio network in Osaka of Japan. 

Career

 He started his acting career with director Shiro Moritani directed a disaster movie named Tidal Wave. Along with the movie appearance, he also started TV dramas Ayu No Uta  & Yoi Don. In the 1980s & 1990s, he performed in so many  Hong- Kong Produced movies. One of the famous movies of that era performed by him was the Hard Boiled. It was a Hong Kong action movie directed by John Woo. 

He started working in the American movie in 1989. His first American movie was the Black Rain. It was an American action thriller movie directed by Ridley Scott. This movie’s Shooting location was in his home town Osaka, Japan.

He is known internationally for his work with the western director such as  American film director, screenwriter, producer Quentin Tarantino & German film director, screenwriter, and producer Roland Emmerich.

He has also collaborated with famous Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike. Korean film director & screenwriter Lee Sang-il. Japanese animator and filmmaker Hideaki Anno &  Japanese filmmaker Ryuhei Kitamura.

Some of the other memorable movie performed by him is Godzilla Resurgence, Kill Bill Volume 1 and Outrage, especially he is very much famous in Korea for his role as a demon in Na Hong-jin’s supernatural thriller movie The Wailing.

The movie boasts all the requirements of a traditional horror movie. The movie is more fun once it hits it to climax. The movie intellectually defines the difference between good and evil. The director of the movie once again made an epic like a movie that works itself into so much madness. The ending of the movie gives its audience a moral It’s bad to see the devil, but it’s much worse when the devil sees you.

One famous movie of him a Japanese Science fiction fantasy horror movie named Attack on Titan directed by the Shinji Higuchi  & the movie was released in the year 2015. The movie is split into two parts. The first part of the movie was released in Japan on 1st August 2015 & the second part of the movie was released on 19th September in the same year.

Part one of the movie was the seventh highest-grossing movie in the Japanese Box Office in 2015 with $ 27 Million (Rs 1,97.52 Cr).

The second part of the movie performed average at the box office with $ 19 Million (Rs 1,38.99 Cr).

Both part of the movie combinedly earned $ 46 Million (Rs 3,36.52 Cr) at the Japanese Box office within the first three weeks of its release.

It was reported that the American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment Warner Bros was in a negotiation to secure the movie rights to the Attack on Titan franchise.

His other movie Minamata which is a drama movie released on 5th February in 2021. The story based on a book name by Aileen Mioko Smith & Eugene Smith. The main star cast of the movie was Johnny Depp played the role of Eugene Smith who was an American Photojournalist. Along with the Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada who played the character of the Mitsuo Yamazaki in the movie. Japanese actress Minami Bages played the role of an Aileen in the movie. Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano played the role of Tatsuo Matsumura. The other Japanese actor Ryo Kase Played the role of Kiyoshi in the same movie. The English actor Bill Nighy, he played the role of Robert Hayes & Wales, United Kingdom actress Katherine Jenkins played the role of Millie in the movie.

TitlesDescription
Real NameYoshihiro Yonemura
Birth PlaceHe was born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
Age65 years 
Net Worth$ 5 Million (Rs 36.44 Cr Approx)

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