Tadanobu Asano

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Born
November 27, 1973 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Popular Genres
Action Drama Adventure
Career Span
– Present

Tadanobu Asano

240 nominations
137 credits

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.

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Personal Info

Born
Nov 27, 1973
From
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Known For
Acting
Career
– Present

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240
Nominations

Complete Filmography

2025

Mortal Kombat II as Lord Raiden

2024

Broken Rage as Detective Inoue
The Box Man as Fake Doctor
The Women in the Lakes
Ravens as Masahisa Fukase
Kanasando

2023

Kubi as Kuroda Kanbei
We're Broke, My Lord! as Heihachiro Isogai

2022

Mugonkan as Kuboshima Seiichiro

2021

Mortal Kombat as Lord Raiden Award
Detective Chinatown 3 as Tanaka Naoki Award
Kate as Renji Award

2020

Labyrinth of Cinema as Sako
Minamata as Tatsuo Matsumura
Independence of Japan

2019

Midway as Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi Award
Chiwawa as Sakata
They Say Nothing Stays the Same as Regular customer
Wolf's Calling as Samurai

2018

The Outsider as Kiyoshi
KASANE –Beauty and Fate– as Kingo Habuta
The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers as Christ
Punk Samurai Slash Down as Hanro Chayama
The Bastard and the Beautiful World as Daimon (Mad Dog) (segment: Don't Shoot the Pianist!)

2017

Thor: Ragnarok as Hogun Award
Shinjuku Swan II as Masaki Taki
Dear Etranger as Makoto Tanaka

2016

Silence as Interpreter Award
The Wasted Times as Watabe
Harmonium as Sotaro Yasaka

2015

Parasyte: Part 2 as Goto Award
Journey to the Shore as Yusuke
Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Grasshopper as Kujira

2014

Parasyte: Part 1 as Goto Award
Kiki's Delivery Service as Dr. Ishi
My Man as Jungo Kusarino
Lupin the 3rd as Koichi Zenigata
Pusong Wazak: Isa Na Namang Kwento ng Pag-ibig sa Pagitan ng Puta at Kriminal as The Criminal
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema as Self

2013

Thor: The Dark World as Hogun Award
47 Ronin as Lord Kira Award
The Kiyosu Conference as Toshiie Maeda
Children Who Won’t Die as Narrator (voice)

2012

Battleship as Captain Yugi Nagata Award
Dearest as Policeman
The Terminal Trust as Noriyuki Takai
Fly with the Gold as Kitagawa

2011

Thor as Hogun Award
A Ghost of a Chance as Kenichi Kido
Moonlight Mask as Taro Okamoto
That's the Way! as Fujio Akatsuka
A Flawless Concierge
Tales of the Bizarre: 2011 Fall Special

2010

Wandering Home as Yasuyuki Tsukahara
42 One Dream Rush
Vengeance Can Wait as Hidenori Yamane

2009

The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity as Shibasaki
Redline as Frisbee (voice) Award
Dumbeast as Dekogawa
Villon's Wife as Otani
Snow Prince
SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
Tsurugi-dake satsuei no ki hyōkō 3000 mētoru, gekitō no 873-nichi
Eatrip

2008

Kabei: Our Mother as Yamazaki Toru
Dreaming Awake
R246 STORY
Buyusenki Battle Chronicle

2007

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan as Genghis Khan / Temüjin Award
Sad Vacation as Kenji Shiraishi
The Capricious Robot as Mr. N

2006

Hana as Jubei Kanazawa
Cross the Lens as Self
Invisible Waves as Kyoji

2005

Tokyo Zombie as Fujio
Rampo Noir as Man / Kogoro Akechi / Masaki / Fuyo's Lover
The Buried Forest as San
Funky Forest: The First Contact as Masaru Tanaka
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? as Mizui
Takeshis'
Portrait of the Wind
SORANO

2004

The Taste of Tea as Ayano Haruno Award
Vital as Hiroshi Takagi
Café Lumière as Hajime Takeuchi
Survive Style 5+ as Aman
Tori
The Face of Jizo as Mr. Kinoshita
The Thirsty Flower: Four by Four Equals One as (voice)
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! as Self
Soul Dancing

2003

Zatoichi as Hattori Genosuke Award
Bright Future as Mamoru Arita
Last Life in the Universe as Kenji
Iden & Tity
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Himself
My Grandpa as S. Nakatoh
Dead End Run

2002

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl as Kuroo Samehada
Woman of Water as Yusaku Miyazawa

2001

Ichi the Killer as Kakihara Award
Kaza-hana as Renji Sawashiro
Distance as Sakata
Electric Dragon 80.000 V as Dragon Eye Morrison
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle as Shanao
Ah-So Graham Norton as Self

2000

Party 7 as Okita Souji

1999

Taboo as Hyozo Tashiro
Hakuchi: The Innocent as Isawa
Gemini as Revenger with Sword
Away with Words as Asano Takashi
One Step on a Mine, It's All Over as Taizo Ichinose

1998

Love & Pop as Captain XX
Document Love & Pop
Falling into the Evening
Screwed as Tsube
Motorola

1997

Labyrinth of Dreams as Tatsuo Niitaka
Tokyo Fair Weather

1996

Swallowtail Butterfly as Customer in the Club
Picnic as Tsumuji
Helpless as Kenji Shiraishi
ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius as Hisoka
Focus as Kanemura
wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net as Man

1995

Maborosi as Ikuo Award
Story of Four Sisters

1994

119 as Satoshi Matsushita

1993

The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Fried Dragon Fish as Natsuro

1992

The Rocking Horsemen as Seiichi Shirai

1991

Waiting for the Flood as Sadahito Iwata

1990

Swimming Upstream
Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!

Pseudo Idealist
Morte Cucina

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Thor: Ragnarok
Thor
Thor: The Dark World
Battleship
Mortal Kombat
Midway
47 Ronin
Silence
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
Redline

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