Tadanobu Asano

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1973-11-27 (52 years old)

Place of Birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Tadanobu Asano

Biography

Tadanobu Asano, born Tadanobu Sato (born November 27, 1973) is a Japanese actor. He is known for his roles as Dragon Eye Morrison in Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Kakihara in Ichi the Killer, Mamoru Arita in Bright Future, Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi, Kenji in Last Life in the Universe, Aman in Survive Style 5+, Ayano in The Taste of Tea, and Temudjin in Mongol. Most recently, Asano appeared as Hogun in the film Thor, based on the Marvel Comics character.

Acting

2003

Zatoichi

as Hattori Genosuke

2011

Thor

as Hogun

2006

Hana

as Jubei Kanazawa

1999

Taboo

as Hyozo Tashiro

2000

Party 7

as Okita Souji

1999

Away with Words

as Asano Takashi

2001

Distance

as Sakata

2007

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

as Genghis Khan / Temüjin

2008

Kabei: Our Mother

as Yamazaki Toru

2003

Bright Future

as Mamoru Arita

2001

Electric Dragon 80000V

as Dragon Eye Morrison

1999

Gemini

as Revenger with Sword

2001

Ichi the Killer

as Kakihara

2005

Tokyo Zombie

as Fujio

1996

Picnic

as Tsumuji

2004

Vital

as Hiroshi Takagi

2004

The Taste of Tea

as Ayano Haruno

2006

2012

Battleship

as Captain Yugi Nagata

2010

Wandering Home

as Yasuyuki Tsukahara

2009

Dumbeast

as Dekogawa

2004

2023

Kubi

as Kuroda Kanbei

2013

47 Ronin

as Lord Kira

2005

Rampo Noir

as Man / Kogoro Akechi / Masaki / Fuyo's Lover

2013

Children Who Won’t Die

as Narrator (voice)

1995

Maborosi

as Ikuo

2023

We're Broke, My Lord!

as Heihachiro Isogai

2024

The Box Man

as Fake Doctor

1998

Love & Pop

as Captain XX

2009

Redline

as Frisbee (voice)

2002

Woman of Water

as Yusaku Miyazawa

2009

2005

1997

Labyrinth of Dreams

as Tatsuo Niitaka

1996

Helpless

as Kenji Shiraishi

2025

Mortal Kombat II

as Lord Raiden

2007

Sad Vacation

as Kenji Shiraishi

1998

Screwed

as Tsube

2001

Kaza-hana

as Renji Sawashiro

2012

Dearest

as Policeman

2011

That's the Way!

as Fujio Akatsuka

2010

Vengeance Can Wait

as Hidenori Yamane

2012

The Terminal Trust

as Noriyuki Takai

1993

1996

Focus

as Kanemura

1994

119

as Satoshi Matsushita

2009

2006

2013

The Kiyosu Conference

as Toshiie Maeda

1996

Swallowtail Butterfly

as Customer in the Club

2012

2014

Lupin the 3rd

as Koichi Zenigata

2004

Café Lumière

as Hajime Takeuchi

2004

The Face of Jizo

as Mr. Kinoshita

1992

The Rocking Horsemen

as Seiichi Shirai

2003

My Grandpa

as S. Nakatoh

2014

My Man

as Jungo Kusarino

2015

Grasshopper

as Kujira

2004

1991

Waiting for the Flood

as Sadahito Iwata

2014

2015

2011

Moonlight Mask

as Taro Okamoto

2011

A Ghost of a Chance

as Kenichi Kido

2022

Mugonkan

as Kuboshima Seiichiro

2016

2016

Silence

as Interpreter

2018

The Outsider

as Kiyoshi

2016

Harmonium

as Sotaro Yasaka

2024

Broken Rage

as Detective Inoue

2017

Shinjuku Swan II

as Masaki Taki

2017

Dear Etranger

as Makoto Tanaka

2017

2018

The Bastard and the Beautiful World

as Daimon (Mad Dog) (segment: Don't Shoot the Pianist!)

2018

2019

Chiwawa

as Sakata

2018

Punk Samurai Slash Down

as Hanro Chayama

2019

Midway

as Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi

2021

Mortal Kombat

as Lord Raiden

2021

Kate

as Renji

2021

Detective Chinatown 3

as Tanaka Naoki

2020

Minamata

as Tatsuo Matsumura

2019

Wolf's Calling

as Samurai

2019

2024

Ravens

as Masahisa Fukase

Production

2003

1-Ichi

as Original Music Composer

2004

Tori

as Director

2008

R246 STORY

as Director

2010

2024

Otoko to Tori

as Director

2024

Otoko to Tori

as Writer

2010

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