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Asano appeared in the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot as Raiden. In September 2021, Asano was announced as part of the cast of the FX limited series Shōgun, adapted from the James Clavell novel. In addition to his acting career, Asano directed commercial TV spots for his then-wife, Chara.
May 8, 2024 · It was around the time that Asano won Venice’s Upstream Prize for Best Actor, for Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life in the Universe, in 2003, that the actor’s most unsettling performance started to appear in the UK via gruesome ads in the pages of Kerrang! and wary newspaper reviews.
- James Balmont
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).
- November 27, 1973
Apr 27, 2024 · TOKYO DRIFTER. Meet the MVP of ‘Shōgun’ — Ex-Punk Rocker and Japanese Movie Star Tadanobu Asano. Thanks to his performance as Yabushige in the popular FX limited series, the longtime actor and...
- David Fear
May 5, 2024 · Yabushige is brought to life by the 50-year-old Asano, who started his career in his native Japan both as an actor (his first role in the teen soap opera Kinpachi-sensei, a sort of Japanese...
As a teen Tadanobu Asano made his acting debut in the 1988 drama "Kanpachi Sensei," thanks in large part to his father's urging. Two years later, he made his big-screen acting debut in Joji Matusuoka’s teen comedy Swimming Upstream (1990).
Apr 29, 2024 · “That guy” is Tadanobu Asano, a charismatic presence in everything from kinetic genre movies to prestigious jidaigeki period pieces since the mid-1990s.
