Takeshi Kaneshiro

Takeshi Kaneshiro was born on Oct 11, 1973 in Taiwan. Takeshi Kaneshiro's big-screen debut came with Grassland Champion - Season 1 directed by Fu-Ti Lin in 1991, strarring Nai Jian. Takeshi Kaneshiro is known for Red Cliff II directed by John Woo, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung stars as Zhou Yu and Takeshi Kaneshiro as Zhuge Liang. Takeshi Kaneshiro has got 1 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award Takeshi Kaneshiro achieved is Golden Horse Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Takeshi Kaneshiro plays is See You Tomorrow which will be released on Dec 23, 2016.

The 1/2 Taiwanese and 1/2 Japanese Takeshi Kaneshiro may have started out as a puerile teen idol in the Chinese entertainment scene, but he's since become a proper film star in his own right. Whether by his own design or not, the boyishness that marked his first steps into showbiz has evolved into a cool, somewhat reticent demeanor that has now become his trademark. Despite being effortlessly good-looking, he chooses to strike a sometimes uneasy balance between the commercially pleasing and the quirky in his choice of film roles -- a move that's unusual for Asian leading men. But whether he's the faithful lover in the Japanese AIDS drama Kamisama mousukoshi dake (1998), the canned-pineapple-eating cop in Chungking Express (1994) or awkward in his role in Misty (1996), a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950), Asian audiences love his style. Other memorable roles include his turn as a lovelorn student in Sam dung (1999), an angel in Fan yi cho (2000) and the leader of a trio of robbers in Supêsutoraberâzu (2000). There hasn't been an Asian actor quite as versatile as Kaneshiro, who is able to straddle the Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japanese film industries because of his proficiency in various languages. Still, one wonders if the reason why he's so sought after is because he is so elusive. No one really knows what he does outside of film commitments, and his reluctance towards being in the spotlight is legendary.