1. Tadanobu Sato better known by his stage name Tadanobu Asano is a Japanese actor, director, and musician, who has had an extensive career working in both Japanese and international cinema.
16 Facts About Tadanobu Asano
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Tadanobu Asano has been nominated for five Japan Academy Film Prizes, twice for Best Actor and three times for Best Supporting Actor, and winner of its Most Popular Performer award.
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Tadanobu Asano has appeared in Hollywood films, notably as Hogun in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Lord Kira Yoshinaka in 47 Ronin, the Interpreter in Silence, Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi in Midway, and Raiden in Mortal Kombat, based on the fighting video game of the same name.
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Tadanobu Asano was born in the Honmoku area of Yokohama, to artist Yukihisa Sato and mother Junko.
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Tadanobu Asano has an older brother, Kujun Sato, born in 1971, who is a musician and a partner in Anore Inc, a talent agency Tadanobu Asano and their father Yukihisa Sato founded.
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Tadanobu Asano worked with Kore-eda in the pseudo-documentary Distance in 2001.
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Tadanobu Asano's best known works internationally are the samurai films Gohatto and Zatoichi, as well as the critically acclaimed Bright Future.
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Tadanobu Asano acted in Katsuhito Ishii's 2003 film The Taste of Tea, which premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
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Tadanobu Asano appeared as the lead actor in Last Life in the Universe by Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang and starred in Ratanaruang's 2006 follow-up film, Invisible Waves.
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Tadanobu Asano reprised the role in 2013's Thor: The Dark World and 2017's Thor: Ragnarok.
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Tadanobu Asano appeared in the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot as Raiden.
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In September 2021, Tadanobu Asano was announced as part of the cast of the FX limited series Shogun, adapted from the James Clavell novel.
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Tadanobu Asano formed the band MACH-1.67 with director Sogo Ishii in 1996 and has played in the bands Peace Pill and Safari.
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Tadanobu Asano met J-pop singer Chara on the set of Iwai's Picnic.
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Tadanobu Asano won the Most Popular Performer award at the 1997 Japanese Academy Awards for Acri and was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category in 2004 for his performance in Zatoichi.
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Tadanobu Asano received the Upstream Prize for Best Actor at the 2003 Venice Film Festival for his role in Last Life in the Universe.