Tadanobu Asano
Birthdate: Nov 27, 1973
Birthplace: Yokohama, Japan
Tadanobu Asano's a Japanese film actor. His father suggested he take on what became his first role in the TV show Kimpachi Sensei at 16. His film debut was Swimming Upstream (1990) though his first major critical success was in Shunji Iwai's Fried Dragon Fish (1993). His first critical success in the West was in Hirokazu Koreeda's Maborosi (1995), in which he played a man who inexplicably throws himself in front of a train, widowing his wife & orphaning his infant son. His best known works internationally are the samurai films Taboo (1999) & The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003). It was on the set of Iwai's Picnic (1996) that he met & fell in love with J-Pop idol Chara. They married soon after learning she was pregnant with their first child, Sumire. While best known for characters who are psychologically offbeat, if not downright psychotic (e.g. Kakihara in Ichi the Killer (2001)), he has been described by those who know him as a down-to-earth family man. He has directed commercial TV spots for Chara. Hesistant to identify himself as an actor, he most readily describes himself as a vocalist, referring to Mach 1.67, the band he has w/ director Gakuryû Ishii. He's also an artist & sometimes works as a model, most notably for the Japanese designers Takeo Kikuchi & Jun Takahashi.
Known For
Tadanobu Asano Movies
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Previous (114)
- 2025 |
Love & Pop
asCaptain XX
A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.
- 2024 | The Box Manas Fake Doctor
- 2024 | The Women in the Lakesas Isami Yu
- 2023 | Daimyo-Tousanas Heihachiro Isogai
- 2023 | Kubias Kanbei Kuroda
- 2022 | Mugonkanas Kuboshima Seiichiro
- 2021 | Detective Chinatown 3as Tanaka Naoki
- 2021 |
Labyrinth of Cinema
asLt. Sako
The story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japan's feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Au... Read all
- 2021 |
- 2021 |
Mortal Kombat
asLord Raiden
MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.
- 2021 |
- 2020 | Independence of Japanas Jiro Shirasu
- 2019 | Chiwawaas Joe Sakata
- 2019 |
- 2018 | Kasaneas Kingo Habuta
- 2018 | Punk Samurai Slash Downas Hanro Chayama
- 2018 | The Bastard and the Beautiful Worldas Daimon (Mad Dog) (segment: Don't Shoot the Pianist!)
- 2018 | The Outsideras Kiyoshi
- 2017 | Dear Etrangeras Makoto Tanaka
- 2017 | Shinjuku Swan IIas Masaki Taki
- 2017 |
Thor: Ragnarok
asHogun
Imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, Thor must race against time to return to Asgard and stop Ragnarök, the destruction of his world, at the hands of the powerful and ruthless villain Hela.
- 2017 |
- 2016 | The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
- 2016 |
- 2016 |
The Wasted Times
asWatabe
Over the course of several decades, a deal between the Japanese army and criminals in Shanghai plays out with violence and betrayal.
- 2015 | Grasshopperas Kujira
- 2015 | Journey to the Shoreas Yûsuke
- 2015 | Nagasaki: Memories of My Sonas Kuroda
- 2015 | Parasyte: Part 2as Goto
- 2015 |
- 2014 | Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
- 2014 | My Manas Jungo
- 2014 | My Manas father
- 2014 | Parasyte: Part 1as Goto
- 2014 | Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whoreas The Criminal
- 2013 | The Kiyosu Conferenceas Maeda Toshiie
- 2013 |
- 2013 |
Thor: The Dark World
asHogun
When the Dark Elves attempt to plunge the universe into darkness, Thor must embark on a perilous and personal journey that will reunite him with doctor Jane Foster.
- 2012 | Children Who Won't Die
- 2012 | Fly with the Goldas Kitagawa
- 2012 | The Terminal Trustas Noriyuki Takai
- 2012 |
Battleship
asCaptain Yugi Nagata
A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.
- 2011 | A Ghost of a Chance
- 2011 | Moonlight Maskas Okamoto
- 2011 | That's the Way!as Fujio Akatsuka
- 2010 | Shinanai kodomo, Arai Shusakuas Narration
- 2010 | Vengeance Can Waitas Hidenori Yamane
- 2010 | Wandering Homeas Yasuyuki Tsukahara
- 2009 | Behind the Blur
- 2009 | Dumbeastas Dekogawa
- 2009 | Eatrip
- 2009 | Mt. Tsurugidakeas Shibasaki
- 2009 | Redlineas Frisbee
- 2009 | Snow Prince
- 2009 | Soul Red: Yusaku Matsuda
- 2009 | Villon's Wifeas Otani
- 2008 | Kabei: Our Motheras Yamazaki Toru
- 2008 | Dreaming Awakeas Black Marketeer
- 2008 | R246 Story
- 2008 | R246 Story
- 2007 | Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khanas Temudjin
- 2007 | Sad Vacationas Kenji Shiraishi
- 2006 | Hanaas Jubei Kanazawa
- 2006 | Invisible Wavesas Kyoji
- 2005 | Funky Forest: The First Contactas Masaru Tanaka
- 2005 | My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?as Mizui
- 2005 | Portrait of the Windas Tamio Murase
- 2005 | Rampo Noiras Man
- 2005 | Rampo Noiras Masaki (stories 'Imomushi' - 'Kagami jigoku' - 'Kasei no unga' - 'Mushi')
- 2005 | Rampo Noiras Private Detective Kogorô
- 2005 | The Buried Forestas San-chan
- 2005 | Tokyo Zombieas Fujio
- 2004 | Kawaita hana: four by four equal one
- 2004 | Survive Style 5+as Aman
- 2004 | The Face of Jizoas Kinoshita
- 2004 | The Taste of Teaas Ayano Haruno - uncle
- 2004 | Tori
- 2004 | Tori
- 2004 | Tori
- 2004 | Vitalas Hiroshi Takagi
- 2002 | Bright Futureas Mamoru Arita
- 2003 | Last Life in the Universeas Kenji
- 2003 | Aiden & Titias Waiter
- 2003 | Café Lumièreas Hajime Takeuchi
- 2003 | Dead End Run
- 2003 | My Grandpaas S. Nakatoh
- 2003 | The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichias Hattori Genosuke
- 2002 | Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- 2002 | Woman of Wateras Yusaku
- 2001 | Distanceas Sakata
- 2001 | Electric Dragon 80.000 Vas Dragon Eye Morrison
- 2001 |
Ichi the Killer
asKakihara
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
- 2000 | Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicleas Shanao
- 2000 | Umbrella Floweras Sawaki
- 1999 | Tabooas Samurai Hyozo Tashiro
- 1999 | Away with Wordsas Asano Takashi (adult)
- 1999 | Hakuchi: The Innocentas Isawa
- 1999 | One Step on a Mine, It's All Overas Taizo Ichinose
- 1998 | Love & Popas Captain XX
- 1998 | Neji-shikias Tsube
- 1998 | Rakka suru yugata
- 1998 | Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girlas Kuroo Samehada
- 1997 | Labyrinth of Dreamsas Tatsuo Niitaka
- 1997 | Tokyo biyori
- 1996 | Acrias Hisoka
- 1996 | Helplessas Kenji Shiraishi
- 1996 | Picnicas Tsumuji
- 1995 | Maborosias Ikuo
- 1995 | Yonshimai monogatarias Akira Higuchi
- 1994 | 119as Satoshi Matsushita
- 1993 | Nemuranai machi - Shinjuku sameas Sajo
- 1992 | The Rocking Horsemenas Seiichi Shirai
- 1991 | Aitsuas Sadahito Iwata
- 1990 | Swimming Upstreamas Ushi
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