Tadanobu Asano

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Bio

Tadanobu Asano was born on November 27, 1973 in Yokohama, Kanagawa. He grew up with parents engaged in a bohemian lifestyle – his mother often drove Asano around while listening to Led Zeppelin and his father was a painter. At school, Asano often felt like an outcast, sometimes being taunted as a “gaijun” (foreigner), because of his unique physical features (his grandfather, on his mother’s side, was American). 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). On the set of the Shunji Iwai‘s 1995 film Picnic, Tadanobu Asano met his wife, pop singer & actress Chara.

Since that time, Tadanobu Asano has worked steadily in the film world and has become one of the most sought after film actors of his generation. Tadanobu Asano made his directorial debut with the short film Tori in 2004 and then directed a segment in the 2008 omnibus film R246 Story. While gaining professional recognition and popularity as an actor, the multi-talented Asano is also a musician, playing in the band Peace Pill, Mach 1.67 with film director Shogo Ishii, and using the stage name “Bunodata” for his solo music career (“Bunodata” being a reverse scramble of the syllables in his name). Asano has often expressed his fondness for the British punk the Sex Pistols. Beyond music, Asano is also an avid painter, poet, and calligrapher (even drawing the calligraphy for the intertitles in Electric Dragon 80000V).

In 2008, The Smithsonian’s Freer-Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C. held a five film restrospective of Asano’s work titled “Rebel, Artist, Superstar: The Films of Tadanobu Asano.” The films presented were Vital, Last Life in the Universe, Sad Vacation, Tori, and Bright Future, with Tadanobu Asano attending the screenings for the first three films.

On July 18th 2009 Tadanobu Asano and Chara announced their divorce.

Notes

1. Grandfather is native American – Jim Owens.
2. His father, Yukihisa Sato, derived the first part of Asano’s first name – Tada – in honor of Japanese pop-art maestro Tadanori Yokoo.
3. Tadanobu Asano got his ears pierced at the age of 13 by his mother.
4. Tadanobu Asano’s brother Kujun is a musician, playing ambient/electro music. (Homepage & Myspace).

Actor

Movies

• They Say Nothing Stays the Same | Aru Sendou no Hanashi (2019) – regular customer
• Chiwawa | Chiwawa-chan (2019) – Sakata
• Kasane: Beauty and Fate | Kasane (2018) – Kingo Habuta
• Punk Samurai Slash Down | Panku Samurai Kirarete Soro (2018) – Hanro Chayama
• Dear Etranger | Osanago Warera ni Umare (2017) – Makoto Tanaka
• Shinjuku Swan II (2017) – Masaki Taki
• Harmonium | Fuchi ni Tatsu (2016) – Kusataro Yasaka
• Nagasaki: Memories of My Son | Haha to Kuraseba (2015) – Kuroda
• Grasshopper | Gurasuhoppa (2015) – Kujira
• Journey to the Shore | Kishibe no Tabi (2015) – Yusuke Yabuuchi
• Parasyte Part 2 | Kiseiju Kanketsu Hen (2015) – Goto (Takeshi Hirokawa’s bodyguard)
• Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between A Criminal & A Whore (2014) – The Criminal
• Parasyte Part 1 | Kiseiju (2014) – Goto (Takeshi Hirokawa’s bodyguard)
• Lupin the Third | Rupan Sansei (2014) – Inspector Koichi Zenigata
• My Man | Watashi no Otoko (2014) – Jungo Kusarino
• Kiki’s Delivery Service | Majo no Takkyubin (2014) – Teacher Itsu
• The Kiyosu Conference | Kiyosu Kaigi (2013) – Toshiie Maeda
• 47 Ronin (2013) – Lord Kira
• A Terminal Trust | Tsui no Shintaku (2012) – Noriyuki Takai
• Fly With The Gold | Ogon O Daite Tobe (2012) – Kitagawa
• Dearest | Anata e (2012) – Kumiko Tsukamoto
• Battleship (2012) – Nagata
• Moonlight Mask | Gekko no Kamen (2011) – Taro Okamoto
• Thor (2011) – Hogun
• A Ghost of a Chance | Suteki na Kanashibari (2011) – Kenichi Kido (historian)
• That’s The Way!! | Korede Iinoda!! Eiga★Akatsuka Fujio (2011) – Fujio Akatsuka
• Wandering Home | Yoi ga sametara, uchi ni kaero (2010)
• Vegenance Can Wait | Ranbou to Taiki]] (2010) – Hidenori Yamane
• Redline (2010) – (voice)
• Snow Prince | Snow Prince – Kinjirareta Koi no Melody (2009) – Hakio
• The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity | Tsurugidake: Satsuei no Ki (2009) – Yoshitaro Shibasaki
• DumBeast | Donju (2009) – Dekogawa
• Villon’s Wife | Viyon no tsuma (2009) – Otani
• The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity | Tsurugidake: Ten no Ki (2009)
• Yume no Manimani (2008)
• R246 Story (2008)
• Kaabee (2007)
• Sad Vacation | Sado Vukeishon (2007) – Kenji Shiraishi
• Hana (Hana yori mo naho) (2007) – Jubei Kanazawa
• Mongol (2007) – Temudjin
• Tokyo Zombie (2006) – Fujio
• Funky Forest: The First Contact | Naisu No Mori: The First Contact (2006) – Masaru Tanaka
• Invisible Waves | Vagues invisibles (2006) – Kyoji
• Rampo Noir | Ranpo Jigoku (2005) – Kogoro Akechi; A man; Masaki
• Portrait of the Wind | Taga Tameni (2005) – Tamio Murase
• Eli, Eli, lema sabachitani? (2005) – Mizui
• The Buried Forest (2005) – San-chan
• The Face of Jizo | Chichi to Kuraseba (2004) – Kinoshita
• Survive Style 5+ (2004) – Aman
• Vital | Vuitaru (2004) – Hiroshi Takagi
• The Taste of Tea | Cha no Aji (2004) – Ayano Haruno (uncle)
• Tori (2004)
• The Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2003) – Himself
• Cafe Lumiere | Kohi jiko (2003) – Hajime Takeuchi
• Zatoichi (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi) (2003) – Hattori Genosuke
• Last Life in the Universe (2003) – Kenji
• My Grandpa | Watashi no guranpa (2003) – Shinichi Nakafuji
• Bright Future Akarui mirai (2003) – Mamoru Arita
• Dead End Run (2003)
• Woman of Water | Mizu no onna (2002) – Yusaku
• Ichi the Killer (2001) – Kakihara
• Distance (2001) – Sakata
• Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001) – Dragon Eye Morrison
• Party 7 (2000) – Okita Souji
• Kaza-Hana (2000) – Sawaki
• Gojoe | Gojo reisenki: Gojoe (2000) – Shanao
• Taboo | Gohatto (1999) – Samurai Hyozo Tashiro
• One Step on a Mine, It’s All Over | Jirai wo fundara sayonara (1999) – Ichinose, Taizo
• Hakuchi: The Innocent | Hakuchi (1999) – Isawa
• Gemini | Soseiji (1999) – Man with Sword
• Away with Words | Kujaku | San tiao ren (1999) – Asano
• Falling into the Evening | Rakka suru yugata (1998)
• Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998) – Kuroo Samehada
• Screwed | Neji-shiki (1998) – Tsube
• Love & Pop (1998) – Captain XX
• Tokyo biyori (1997)
• Labyrinth of Dreams | Yume no ginga (1997) – Tatsuo Niitaka
• Focus (1996) – Kanemura
• Swallowtail Butterfly | Suwaroteiru (1996) – Customer in club
• The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius | Acri (1996) – Hisoka
• Helpless (1996) – Kenji
• PiCNiC　(1996) – Tsumuji
• Maborosi | Maboroshi no hikari (1995) – Ikuo
• Yonshimai monogatari (1995) – Akira Higuchi
• Quiet Days of Firemen | 119 (1994) – Satoshi Matsumoto
• Nemuranai Machi (1993)
• The Rocking Horsemen | Seishun dendekedekedeke (1992) – Seiichi Shirai
• Waiting for the Flood | Aitsu (1991) – Sadahito Iwata
• Swimming Upstream | Swimming Upstream (1990) – Ushi

Drama Series

• Followers (Netflix / 2020)
• Detective Yugami | Keiji Yugami (Fuji TV / 2017) – Yukimasa Yugami
• A Life: A Love | A Life Kanashiki Hito (TBS / 2017) – Masao Danjo
• Long Goodbye | Rongu Guddobai (NHK / 2014) – Banji Masuzawa
• Shiritsu Tantei Hama Mike (YTV / 2002) – ep.10
• Masui (NTV / 1994)
• Haru no Ichizoku (NHK / 1993)

Television Movies

• Fried Dragon Fish (Fuji TV / 1993)

Music Videos

• Anna Tsuchiya – Cocoon (2008)

Director

• R246 Story (2008)
• Tori (2004)

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