8.0
8.0
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2004
as Self
Tadanobu Asano
Also known as: Tad, Asano Tadanobu
Acting
Nationality:Japan
Height:5'10" (177 cm)
Education:Kanagawa Prefectural Yokohama Suiran High School
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CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Tadanobu Satō (佐藤 忠信, Satō Tadanobu; born November 27, 1973), better known by his stage name Tadanobu Asano (浅野 忠信, Asano Tadanobu), is a Japanese actor, director, and musician, who has had an extensive career working in both Japanese and international cinema. He has been nominated for five Japan Academy Film Prizes, twice for Best Actor and three times for Best Supporting Actor, and winner of its Most Popular Performer award. Among his best-known roles are in Hirokazu Kore-eda's Maboroshi no Hikari (1995) and Distance (2001), Hyozo Tashiro in Gohatto (1999), Kakihara in Ichi the Killer (2001), Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi (2003), Kenji in Last Life in the Universe (also 2003), and Temujin in Mongol (2007). He has also appeared in Hollywood films, notably as Hogun in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Lord Kira Yoshinaka in 47 Ronin (2013), the Interpreter in Silence (2016), Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi in Midway (2019), and Raiden in Mortal Kombat (2021), based on the fighting video game of the same name. He gained additional recognition in 2024 for his portrayal of Lord Kashigi Yabushige on the American television series Shōgun, based on the James Clavell novel, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Asano has worked with some of the most prominent and acclaimed directors in Japanese cinema, including Hirokazu Kore-eda, Takeshi Kitano, Nagisa Ōshima, Takashi Miike, Nobuhiko Obayashi and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, along with international directors like Martin Scorsese, Kenneth Branagh, Wong Kar-wai, Roland Emmerich, Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Sergei Bodrov. Among other accolades, he has twice won the Best Actor Award at the Yokohama Film Festival, the Upstream Prize for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival, and the Best Actor Award at the Moscow International Film Festival.
Filmography (138 movies)
8.0
8.0
Iden & Tity
2003
7.8
7.8
Mortal Kombat II
2026
as Lord Raiden
7.7
7.7
Love & Pop
1998
as Captain XX
7.6
7.6
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
as Hogun
7.5
7.5
Redline
2009
as Frisbee (voice)
7.5
7.5
Dumbeast
2009
as Dekogawa
7.5
7.5
The Taste of Tea
2004
as Ayano Haruno
7.4
7.4
Swallowtail Butterfly
1996
as Customer in the Club
7.4
7.4
Maborosi
1995
as Ikuo
7.4
7.4
We're Broke, My Lord!
2023
as Heihachiro Isogai
7.3
7.3
The Women in the Lakes
2024
7.3
7.3
Kabei: Our Mother
2008
as Yamazaki Toru
7.2
7.2
Survive Style 5+
2004
as Aman
7.2
7.2
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
as Self
7.2
7.2
Zatoichi
2003
as Hattori Genosuke
7.2
7.2
A Ghost of a Chance
2011
as Kenichi Kido
7.2
7.2
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
2005
as Mizui
7.2
7.2
Last Life in the Universe
2003
as Kenji
7.1
7.1
Silence
2016
as Interpreter
7.1
7.1
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
as Goto
7.1
7.1
Dear Etranger
2017
as Makoto Tanaka
7.1
7.1
Midway
2019
as Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi
7.1
7.1
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
as Goto
7.0
7.0
Ichi the Killer
2001
as Kakihara
7.0
7.0
Document Love & Pop
1998
7.0
7.0
One Step on a Mine, It's All Over
1999
as Taizo Ichinose
7.0
7.0
Mortal Kombat
2021
as Lord Raiden
7.0
7.0
The Box Man
2024
as Fake Doctor
7.0
7.0
Kubi
2023
as Kuroda Kanbei
6.9
6.9
Labyrinth of Cinema
2020
as Sako
6.9
6.9
Minamata
2020
as Tatsuo Matsumura
6.9
6.9
The Wasted Times
2016
as Watabe
6.9
6.9
The Kiyosu Conference
2013
as Toshiie Maeda
6.9
6.9
KASANE –Beauty and Fate–
2018
as Kingo Habuta
6.8
6.8
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
6.8
6.8
My Grandpa
2003
as S. Nakatoh
6.8
6.8
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
2001
as Shanao
6.8
6.8
They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2019
as Regular customer
6.8
6.8
Labyrinth of Dreams
1997
as Tatsuo Niitaka
6.8
6.8
Sad Vacation
2007
as Kenji Shiraishi
6.8
6.8
The Rocking Horsemen
1992
as Seiichi Shirai
6.8
6.8
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
2007
as Genghis Khan / Temüjin
6.8
6.8
Bright Future
2003
as Mamoru Arita
6.8
6.8
Dearest
2012
as Policeman
6.8
6.8
Electric Dragon 80000V
2001
as Dragon Eye Morrison
6.8
6.8
Thor
2011
as Hogun
6.8
6.8
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
1999
as Kuroo Samehada
6.8
6.8
Chiwawa
2019
as Sakata
6.8
6.8
Vital
2004
as Hiroshi Takagi
6.7
6.7
Picnic
1996
as Tsumuji
6.7
6.7
The Face of Jizo
2004
as Mr. Kinoshita
6.7
6.7
Café Lumière
2004
as Hajime Takeuchi
6.6
6.6
Kate
2021
as Renji
6.6
6.6
Distance
2001
as Sakata
6.6
6.6
Broken Rage
2024
as Detective Inoue
6.6
6.6
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
2015
6.6
6.6
Wolf's Calling
2019
as Samurai
6.6
6.6
Villon's Wife
2009
as Otani
6.6
6.6
Taboo
1999
as Hyozo Tashiro
6.5
6.5
Harmonium
2016
as Sotaro Yasaka
6.5
6.5
Journey to the Shore
2015
as Yusuke
6.5
6.5
Thor: The Dark World
2013
as Hogun
6.5
6.5
Portrait of the Wind
2005
6.5
6.5
Party 7
2000
as Okita Souji
6.5
6.5
Dead End Run
2003
6.5
6.5
Tales of the Bizarre: 2011 Fall Special
2011
6.5
6.5
Gemini
1999
as Revenger with Sword
6.4
6.4
The Buried Forest
2005
as San
6.3
6.3
The Terminal Trust
2012
as Noriyuki Takai
6.3
6.3
Funky Forest: The First Contact
2005
as Masaru Tanaka
6.3
6.3
wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net
1996
as Man
6.2
6.2
Vengeance Can Wait
2010
as Hidenori Yamane
6.2
6.2
Wandering Home
2010
as Yasuyuki Tsukahara
6.2
6.2
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
2009
as Shibasaki
6.2
6.2
47 Ronin
2013
as Lord Kira
6.2
6.2
Away with Words
1999
as Asano Takashi
6.2
6.2
The Outsider
2018
as Kiyoshi
6.1
6.1
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
2014
as The Criminal
6.1
6.1
Takeshis'
2005
6.0
6.0
Fly with the Gold
2012
as Kitagawa
6.0
6.0
Woman of Water
2002
as Yusaku Miyazawa
6.0
6.0
Lupin the 3rd
2014
as Koichi Zenigata
6.0
6.0
The Capricious Robot
2007
as Mr. N
6.0
6.0
119
1994
as Satoshi Matsushita
6.0
6.0
Fried Dragon Fish
1993
as Natsuro
5.9
5.9
Snow Prince
2009
5.9
5.9
Helpless
1996
as Kenji Shiraishi
5.9
5.9
Battleship
2012
as Captain Yugi Nagata
5.8
5.8
Hakuchi: The Innocent
1999
as Isawa
5.8
5.8
Grasshopper
2015
as Kujira
5.8
5.8
My Man
2014
as Jungo Kusarino
5.7
5.7
Invisible Waves
2006
as Kyoji
5.6
5.6
Detective Chinatown 3
2021
as Tanaka Naoki
5.6
5.6
Rampo Noir
2005
as Man / Kogoro Akechi / Masaki / Fuyo's Lover
5.6
5.6
Punk Samurai Slash Down
2018
as Hanro Chayama
5.5
5.5
Kaza-hana
2001
as Renji Sawashiro
5.5
5.5
A Flawless Concierge
2011
as The Artist
5.5
5.5
Tokyo Zombie
2005
as Fujio
5.4
5.4
Focus
1996
as Kanemura
5.3
5.3
Motorola
1998
5.0
5.0
42 One Dream Rush
2010
Director
5.0
5.0
Falling into the Evening
1998
4.8
4.8
Shinjuku Swan II
2017
as Masaki Taki
4.5
4.5
Screwed
1998
as Tsube
4.2
4.2
The Bastard and the Beautiful World
2018
as Daimon (Mad Dog) (segment: Don't Shoot the Pianist!)
4.0
4.0
Buyusenki Battle Chronicle
2008
3.8
3.8
Morte Cucina
2026
as Artist
2.0
2.0
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2018
as Christ
1.5
1.5
Swimming Upstream
1990
as Ushi
All the Lovers in the Night
TBA
Eatrip
2009
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
Tori
2004
Director
Waiting for the Flood
1991
as Sadahito Iwata
Story of Four Sisters
1995
ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius
1996
as Hisoka
Dreaming Awake
2008
Moonlight Mask
2011
as Taro Okamoto
R246 STORY
2008
Director
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2003
as Himself
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009
Children Who Won’t Die
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Pseudo Idealist
TBA
That's the Way!
2011
as Fujio Akatsuka
The Thirsty Flower: Four by Four Equals One
2004
as (voice)
Soul Dancing
2004
Independence of Japan
2020
Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
1990
Cross the Lens
2006
as Self
Mugonkan
2022
as Kuboshima Seiichiro
SORANO
2005
Ah-So Graham Norton
2001
as Self
Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009
Kanasando
2024
Ravens
2024
as Masahisa Fukase
Funky Forest: The Second Contact
TBA
Otoko to Tori
2024
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