Tadanobu Asano Biography
Tadanobu Sato, better known as Tadanobu Asano, 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 and Hyozo Tashiro in Gohatto.
How old is Tadanobu Asano? – Age
He is 50 years old as of November 2023. The actor was born on November 27, 1973, in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
Tadanobu Asano Height
The star stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Tadanobu Asano Early Life
Asano was born to artist Yukihisa Sato and mother Junko. His maternal grandfather was Willard Overing, a United States citizen of Norwegian ancestry, whom Asano never met. Asano has an older brother, Kujun Sato, born in 1971, who is a musician and a partner in Anore Inc. a talented agency Asano and their father Yukihisa Sato founded.
Is Tadanobu Asano married? – Wife
Her first wife was Chara a singer. They met on the set of Iwai’s Picnic (1994). They were married in March 1995 while Chara was pregnant with their first child, a daughter names Sumire. In 1999, they had a son named Himi. They later in July 2009, Chara announced that, they were divorcing and she was receiving custody of both their children. In August 2022, Asano announced through his Twitter and Instagram accounts that he had married model and actress Kurumi Nakata whom he had been dating for six years.
Tadanobu Asano Career
His father, an actors’ agent, suggested he take on his first acting role in the TV show Kinpachi Sensei at the age of 16. His film debut was in the 1990 Swimming Upstream, through his first major critical success was Shunji Iwai’s Fried Dragon Fish. His first critical success internationally was Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Maboroshi no Hikari, in which he played a man who inexplicably throws himself in front of a train, widowing his wife ans orphaning his infant son. He also worked with Kore-eda in the pseudo-documentary Distance in 2001.
Asano acted in Katsuhito Ishii’s 2003 film The Taste of Tea, which premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. He 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 Invincible Waves. He appeared in the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot as Raiden. In September 2021, Asano was announced as part of the cast of the FX limited series Shogun, adapted from the James Clavell novel.
In addition to his acting career, Tadanobu Asano directed commercial TV spots for his then-wife, Chara. He formed the band MACH-1.67 with director Sogo Ishii in 1996 and has also played in the bands Peace Pill and Safari.
Tadanobu Asano Net Worth
According to sources, his net worth is $10 million.
Tadanobu Asano Movie
1990 – Bataashi Kingyo
1991 – Aitsu
1994 – 119
1996 – Helpless
1996 – Acri
1997 – Tokyo Biyori
1998 – Love & Pop
2000 – Party 7
2001 – Distance
2002 – Woman of Water
2003 – Dead End Run
2004 – Tori
2006 – Hana
2009 – Redline
2011 – Thor
2012 – Anata e
2013 – 47 Ronin
2014 – Lupin III
2015 – Grasshopper
2016 – Silence
2019 – They Say Nothing Stays the Same
2020 – Minamata
2021 – Kate
2024 – The Box Man