Tadanobu Asano
Biography
Described as a cross between Johnny Depp and Toshirô Mifune, Asano Tadanobu is certainly the hippest, if not the single most important, Japanese film actor working today. His father, an actors' agent, suggested he take on what became his first role, in the TV show "Kimpachi Sensei," at the age of 16. His film debut was in the 1990 Swimming Upstream (Bataashi Kingyo (1990)), though his first major critical success was in Shunji Iwai's Fried Dragon Fish (1993) (TV). His first critical success in the West was in Hirokazu Koreeda's Maboroshi no hikari (1995), in which he played a man who inexplicably throws himself in front of a train, widowing his wife and orphaning his infant son. His best known works internationally are the samurai films Gohatto (1999) and Zatôichi (2003). It was on the set of Iwai's _Picnic (1996)_ that he met and fell in love with J-Pop idol Chara. They married soon after learning she was pregnant with their first child, Smile. While best known for characters who are psychologically offbeat, if not downright psychotic (e.g. Kakihara in Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1 (2001))), Asano is described by those who know him as a down-to-earth family man. He has directed commercial TV spots for Chara, and manages to find time to take Smile and his son, Himi, to the zoo. Hesistant to identify himself as an actor, he most readily describes himself as a vocalist, referring to Mach 1.67, the band he has with director Sogo Ishii. He's also an artist, and a model, most notably for the Japanese designers Takeo Kikuchi and Jun Takahashi.
47 Ronin
Lord Kira
Battleship
Captain Yugi Nagata
Ichi the Killer
Kakihara
Mongol
Temudjin
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Hattori Genosuke
Silence
Interpreter
Vital
Hiroshi Takagi
Redline
Frisbee (voice)
Tokyo Zombie
Fujio
Last Life In The Universe
Kenji
All the Lovers in the Night
Mitsutsuka
Artist
Mortal Kombat II
Lord Raiden
The 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
Self - Winner
Ravens
Masahisa Fukase
Broken Rage
Inoue
The Box Man
Fake Doctor
Kubi
Kanbei Kuroda
Kuboshima Seiichiro
Thor: Love and Thunder
Hogun (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mortal Kombat
Lord Raiden
Minamata
Tatsuo Matsumura
Labyrinth of Cinema
Lt. Sako
Midway
Tamon Yamaguchi
狼煙が呼ぶ
Samurai
Kasane
Kingo Habuta
The Outsider
Kiyoshi
星くず兄弟の新たな伝説
Christ
Thor: Ragnarok
Hogun
Dear Etranger
Makoto Tanaka
The Wasted Times
Watabe
Silence
Interpreter
Harmonium
Yasaka
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Kuroda
Grasshopper
Kujira
Journey to the Shore
Yûsuke
Parasyte: Part 2
Goto
Parasyte: Part 1
Goto
Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore
The Criminal
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
Lupin the 3rd
Inspector Zenigata
Kiki's Delivery Service
Dr. Ishi
Kiyosu kaigi
Maeda Toshiie
Thor: The Dark World
Hogun
47 Ronin
Lord Kira
The Terminal Trust
Noriyuki Takai
Battleship
Captain Yugi Nagata
Sutekina kakushi dori -kanzen muketsu no concierge-
Kenichi Kido
Thor
Hogun
月光ノ仮面
Taro Okamoto
Yasuyuki Tsukahara
42 One Dream Rush
Snow Prince
The Descent: Part 2
Lord Raiden
Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones
Shibasaki
Redline
Frisbee (voice)
Kâbê
Yamazaki Toru
サッド ヴァケイション
Kenji Shiraishi
Mongol
Temudjin
Hana
Jubei Kanazawa
Invisible Waves
Kyoji
Tokyo Zombie
Fujio
誰がために
Eri Eri rema sabakutani
Mizui
Rampo Noir
Private detective Kogorô Akechi (2x); A man; Masaki (story "Imomushi", "Kagami jigoku", "Kasei no unga", and "Mushi")
Vital
Hiroshi Takagi
Café Lumière
Hajime Takeuchi
渇いた花 ～four by four equal one ～
(voice)
Survive Style 5+
Aman
Chichi to kuraseba
Mr. Kinoshita
The Taste of Tea
Ayano Haruno - uncle
Dead End Run
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Hattori Genosuke
Last Life In The Universe
Kenji
S. Nakatoh
Bright Future
Mamoru Arita
アイデン＆ティティ
Ichi the Killer
Kakihara
Distance
Sakata
Electric Dragon 80000V
Dragon Eye Morrison
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Shanao
Taboo
Samurai Hyozo Tashiro
Taizo Ichinose
Hakuchi: The Innocent
Isawa
Gemini
Revenger with Sword
Away With Words
Asano Takashi (adult)
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
Kuroo Samehada
Wind-Up Type
Tsube
Love & Pop
Captain XX
Kanemura
Swallowtail Butterfly
Customer in club
Acri
Hisoka
Helpless
Kenji Shiraishi
Tsumuji
Maborosi
Ikuo
Quiet Fays of firemen
Satoshi Matsushita
Fried Dragon Fish
Natsuro
青春デンデケデケデケ
Seiichi Shirai
