Tadanobu Asano stars in "Thor," starring Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman, as Hogun.
Described as a cross between Johnny Depp and Toshirô Mifune, Tadanobu Asano is certainly the hippest, if not the single most important, Japanese film actor working today. His father, an actors' agent, suggested he take on what became his first role, in the TV drama "Kinpachi-sensei," at the age of 14. His film debut was in the 1990 "Swimming Upstream" ("Bataashi Kingyo"), though his first major
His first critical success in the West was in Hirokazu Koreeda's 1995 "Illusion"("Maboroshi no Hikari"), in which he played a man who inexplicably throws himself in front of a train, widowing his wife and orphaning his infant son. His best known works internationally are "Last Life in the Universe" (2003), which he won the Upstream Prize for Best Actor at the 2003 Venice Film Festival for his role, and "Mongol" (2007), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. While best known for characters who are psychologically offbeat, if not downright psychotic (e.g. Kakihara in 2001's "Ichi the Killer"/"Koroshiya Ichi"), Asano is described by those who know him as a down-to-earth family man. He's also an artist, musician and designer.
Asano runs the Anore Inc. actors' agency alongside his father. Asano was married to J-Pop idol Chara and had two children before their divorce in 2009.
Described as a cross between Johnny Depp and Toshirô Mifune, Tadanobu Asano is certainly the hippest, if not the single most important, Japanese film actor working today. His father, an actors' agent, suggested he take on what became his first role, in the TV drama "Kinpachi-sensei," at the age of 14. His film debut was in the 1990 "Swimming Upstream" ("Bataashi Kingyo"), though his first major
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critical success was in Shunji Iwai's television project "Fried Dragon Fish" (1993).His first critical success in the West was in Hirokazu Koreeda's 1995 "Illusion"("Maboroshi no Hikari"), in which he played a man who inexplicably throws himself in front of a train, widowing his wife and orphaning his infant son. His best known works internationally are "Last Life in the Universe" (2003), which he won the Upstream Prize for Best Actor at the 2003 Venice Film Festival for his role, and "Mongol" (2007), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. While best known for characters who are psychologically offbeat, if not downright psychotic (e.g. Kakihara in 2001's "Ichi the Killer"/"Koroshiya Ichi"), Asano is described by those who know him as a down-to-earth family man. He's also an artist, musician and designer.
Asano runs the Anore Inc. actors' agency alongside his father. Asano was married to J-Pop idol Chara and had two children before their divorce in 2009.
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