Tadanobu Asano

Known for: Acting
Born: November 27, 1973, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Movies: 149

Tadanobu Asano, born Tadanobu Sato (born November 27, 1973) is a Japanese actor. He is known for his roles as Dragon Eye Morrison in Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Kakihara in Ichi the Killer, Mamoru Arita in Bright Future, Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi, Kenji in Last Life in the Universe, Aman in Survive Style 5+, Ayano in The Taste of Tea, and Temudjin in Mongol. Most recently, Asano appeared as Hogun in the film Thor, based on the Marvel Comics character.

Upcoming Tadanobu Asano Movies

All the Lovers in the Night

2026

November 13, 2026

Pseudo Idealist

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

6.8

Thor

2011

7.6

Thor: Ragnarok

2017

6.5

Thor: The Dark World

2013

7.0

Mortal Kombat

2021

5.9

Battleship

2012

6.2

47 Ronin

2013

7.1

Silence

2016

7.1

Midway

2019

7.8

Mortal Kombat II

2026

6.6

Kate

2021

Filmography

2026	All the Lovers in the Night	Mitsutsuka
2026	Morte Cucina	Artist
2026	Mortal Kombat II	Lord Raiden
2025	Ravens	Masahisa Fukase
2024	Broken Rage	Detective Inoue
2024	The Box Man	Fake Doctor
2024	Kanasando	Satoru Chinen
2024	The Women in the Lakes
2023	Kubi	Kuroda Kanbei
2023	We're Broke, My Lord!	Heihachiro Isogai
2022	Mugonkan	Kuboshima Seiichiro
2021	Kate	Renji
2021	Mortal Kombat	Lord Raiden
2021	Detective Chinatown 3	Tanaka Naoki
2020	Independence of Japan
2020	Labyrinth of Cinema	Sako
2020	Minamata	Tatsuo Matsumura
2019	Midway	Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi
2019	Wolf's Calling	Samurai
2019	They Say Nothing Stays the Same	Regular customer
2019	Chiwawa-chan	Sakata
2018	KASANE –Beauty and Fate–	Kingo Habuta
2018	Punk Samurai Slash Down	Hanro Chayama
2018	The Bastard and the Beautiful World	Daimon (Mad Dog) (segment: Don't Shoot the Pianist!)
2018	The Outsider	Kiyoshi
2018	The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers	Christ
2017	Thor: Ragnarok	Hogun
2017	Dear Etranger	Makoto Tanaka
2017	Shinjuku Swan II	Masaki Taki
2016	Silence	Interpreter
2016	The Wasted Times	Watabe
2016	Harmonium	Sotaro Yasaka
2016	fuji_jukai.mov	Doctor (Village of Reincarnation)
2015	Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
2015	Grasshopper	Kujira
2015	Journey to the Shore	Yusuke
2015	Parasyte: Part 2	Goto
2014	Parasyte: Part 1	Goto
2014	Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore	The Criminal
2014	Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema	Self
2014	Lupin the 3rd	Koichi Zenigata
2014	My Man	Jungo Kusarino
2014	Kiki's Delivery Service	Dr. Ishi
2013	47 Ronin	Lord Kira
2013	The Kiyosu Conference	Toshiie Maeda
2013	Thor: The Dark World	Hogun
2013	Children Who Won’t Die	Narrator (voice)
2013	An Interview with Alien Sun	Self
2013	An Interview with Tadanobu Asano	Self
2013	Ichi the Killer - Making Of	Self
2013	Ichi the Killer - Behind the Scenes	Self
2012	Fly with the Gold	Kitagawa
2012	The Terminal Trust	Noriyuki Takai
2012	Dearest	Policeman
2012	Battleship	Captain Yugi Nagata
2011	Tales of the Bizarre: 2011 Fall Special
2011	A Flawless Concierge	The Artist
2011	A Ghost of a Chance	Kenichi Kido
2011	That's the Way!	Fujio Akatsuka
2011	Thor	Hogun
2011	Moonlight Mask	Taro Okamoto
2010	Wandering Home	Yasuyuki Tsukahara
2010	Vengeance Can Wait	Hidenori Yamane
2010	42 One Dream Rush
2009	Snow Prince
2009	Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
2009	SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
2009	Villon's Wife	Otani
2009	Eatrip
2009	Redline	Frisbee (voice)
2009	The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity	Shibasaki
2009	Dumbeast	Dekogawa
2008	Dreaming Awake
2008	R246 STORY
2008	Buyusenki Battle Chronicle
2008	Kabei: Our Mother	Yamazaki Toru
2007	Eli on Ichi	Self
2007	Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan	Genghis Khan / Temüjin
2007	Sad Vacation	Kenji Shiraishi
2007	The Capricious Robot	Mr. N
2006	Cross the Lens	Self
2006	Hana	Jubei Kanazawa
2006	Invisible Waves	Kyoji
2005	Tokyo Zombie	Fujio
2005	SORANO
2005	Funky Forest: The First Contact	Masaru Tanaka
2005	Portrait of the Wind
2005	Takeshis'
2005	The Buried Forest	San-chan
2005	My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?	Mizui
2005	Rampo Noir	Man / Kogoro Akechi / Masaki / Fuyo's Lover
2004	Vital	Hiroshi Takagi
2004	Survive Style 5+	Aman
2004	Café Lumière	Hajime Takeuchi
2004	The Thirsty Flower: Four by Four Equals One	(voice)
2004	The Face of Jizo	Mr. Kinoshita
2004	The Taste of Tea	Ayano Haruno
2004	Tori
2004	Soul Dancing
2004	Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!	Self
2003	Dead End Run
2003	Zatoichi	Hattori Genosuke
2003	Last Life in the Universe	Kenji
2003	My Grandpa	S. Nakatoh
2003	Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Himself
2003	Bright Future	Mamoru Arita
2003	Iden & Tity
2002	Woman of Water	Yusaku Miyazawa
2001	Ichi the Killer	Kakihara
2001	Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle	Shanao
2001	Distance	Sakata
2001	Electric Dragon 80000V	Dragon Eye Morrison
2001	Kaza-hana	Renji Sawashiro
2001	Ah-So Graham Norton	Self
2000	Party 7	Okita Souji
1999	Taboo	Hyozo Tashiro
1999	One Step on a Mine, It's All Over	Taizo Ichinose
1999	Hakuchi: The Innocent	Isawa
1999	Gemini	Revenger with Sword
1999	Away with Words	Asano Takashi
1999	Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl	Kuroo Samehada
1998	Document Love & Pop
1998	Falling into the Evening
1998	Screwed	Tsube
1998	Typhoon Shelter
1998	Love & Pop	Captain XX
1998	Motorola
1997	Tokyo Fair Weather
1997	Labyrinth of Dreams	Tatsuo Niitaka
1996	wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net	Man
1996	Focus	Kanemura
1996	Swallowtail Butterfly	Customer in the Club
1996	ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius	Hisoka
1996	Helpless	Kenji Shiraishi
1996	Picnic	Tsumuji
1996	命捧げ候夢追い坂の決闘
1995	Maborosi	Ikuo
1995	Story of Four Sisters
1994	119	Satoshi Matsushita
1993	The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark	Koichi Sunagami
1993	Fried Dragon Fish	Natsuro
1992	The Rocking Horsemen	Seiichi Shirai
1991	Waiting for the Flood	Sadahito Iwata
1990	Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
1990	Swimming Upstream	Ushi

Directing, Writing & Producing

2024	Otoko to Tori	Director, Writer
2010	42 One Dream Rush	Director
2008	R246 STORY	Director
2004	Tori	Director

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