ACTOR

Tadanobu Asano

1973 - Today

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Tadanobu Satō (佐藤 忠信, Satō Tadanobu, born November 27, 1973), better known by his stage name Tadanobu Asano (浅野 忠信, Asano Tadanobu), is a Japanese actor, director, and musician, who has had an extensive career working in both Japanese and international cinema. He 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. Among his best-known roles are in Hirokazu Kore-eda's Maboroshi no Hikari (1995) and Distance (2001), Hyozo Tashiro in Gohatto (1999), Kakihara in Ichi the Killer (2001), Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi (2003), Kenji in Last Life in the Universe (also 2003), and Temujin in Mongol (2007). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tadanobu Asano has received more than 3,195,524 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Tadanobu Asano is the 3,601st most popular actor (down from 3,182nd in 2019), the 1,101st most popular biography from Japan (down from 986th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Japanese Actor.

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  • 50.01

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  • 28

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  • 4.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tadanobu Asano ranks 3,601 out of 13,578. Before him are Alessandra Martines, Flóra Kádár, Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Dymna, Anthony Wong, and Ulli Lommel. After him are Solveig Dommartin, Ryūsei Nakao, Charlotte Stewart, Brad Harris, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Deborah Kara Unger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Tadanobu Asano ranks 128. Before him are Vladimír Šmicer, Radha Mitchell, Sasha Alexander, Tom Wlaschiha, Tori Spelling, and Gabriela Spanic. After him are Brian Austin Green, Jennifer Esposito, Alexander Vinokourov, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Saïd Taghmaoui, and Okan Buruk.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tadanobu Asano ranks 1,101 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshio Kikugawa (1944), Mitski (1990), Megumi Hayashibara (1967), Shunichiro Okano (1931), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), and Shunryū Suzuki (1904). After him are Ryūsei Nakao (1951), Atsuyoshi Furuta (1952), Katsuyuki Kawachi (1955), Unshō Ishizuka (1951), Uesugi Harunori (1751), and Joseph Asajiro Satowaki (1904).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Tadanobu Asano ranks 58. Before him are So Yamamura (1910), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), Rentarō Mikuni (1923), Eiji Okada (1920), Minoru Chiaki (1917), and Megumi Hayashibara (1967). After him are Ryūsei Nakao (1951), Unshō Ishizuka (1951), Ikue Ōtani (1965), Kōichi Yamadera (1961), Isuzu Yamada (1917), and Masayuki Mori (1911).

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Television and Movie Roles

Battleship
Captain Yugi Nagata
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
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Thor
Hogun
Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly reignites an ancient war. Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans as punishment. Once here, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends the darkest forces of Asgard to invade Earth.
Apr 21o 20116.769 / 10
Thor: The Dark World
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Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
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