Tadanobu Asano

Tadanobu Asano was born on Nov 27, 1973 in Japan. Tadanobu Asano's big-screen debut came with Swimming Upstream directed by Joji Matsuoka in 1990, strarring Ushi. Tadanobu Asano is known for Minamata directed by Andrew Levitas, Akiko Iwase stars as Masako Matsumura and Kogarashi Wakasugi as Akiko Matsumura. Tadanobu Asano has got 15 awards and 13 nominations so far. The most recent award Tadanobu Asano achieved is Asian Film Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Tadanobu Asano plays is Shogun - Season 1 which will be released on Dec 31, 2023.

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 Bataashi kingyo (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 Tabou (Gohatto) (1999) & 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.