出生于岐阜县土岐郡土岐津町（現土岐市），丽泽短期大学毕业。主要影视作品有《北国之恋》、《追捕》、《背叛》、《非凡的勇气》、《八墓村》、《新干线大爆破》等。2006年被授予了旭日小绶章。

田中邦卫在中国大陆广为人知的角色是在《追捕》中的横路进二和《北国之恋》中的黒板五郎。

Kunie Tanaka (田中 邦衛 Tanaka Kunie, November 23, 1932 - March 24, 2021) was a Japanese actor. He had his first notable role in 1960 as a thug in Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well, and worked with the director again on Sanjuro. Tanaka is well known for his roles in Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza films, namely the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series. He also appeared in Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan.

He has been nominated for five Japanese Academy Awards, winning the Best Supporting Actor statuette for Gakko in 1993. He appeared as the lecherous Shinjiro Ishiyama, nicknamed Aodaishō, the antagonist of the hero, played by Yūzō Kayama, in all of the Wakadaishō series of films. The character Kizaru, from Eiichiro Oda's manga series One Piece, is modeled after Tanaka.