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.

Filmography

• 2026All the Lovers in the Night — Mitsutsuka
• 2026Mortal Kombat II — Lord Raiden
• 2026Morte Cucina — Artist
• 2025Ravens — Masahisa Fukase
• 2024Broken Rage — Detective Inoue
• 2024Kanasando — Satoru Chinen
• 2024Otoko to Tori — Director, Writer
• Shōgun — Kashigi Yabushige
• 2024The Box Man — Fake Doctor
• 2024The Women in the Lakes
• 2023Kubi — Kuroda Kanbei
• 2023We're Broke, My Lord! — Heihachiro Isogai
• 2022Mugonkan — Kuboshima Seiichiro
• 2021Detective Chinatown 3 — Tanaka Naoki
• 2021Kate — Renji
• 2021Mortal Kombat — Lord Raiden
• Followers — Tamio Mochizuki
• 2020Independence of Japan
• 2020Labyrinth of Cinema — Sako
• 2020Minamata — Tatsuo Matsumura
• 2019Chiwawa-chan — Sakata
• 2019Midway — Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi
• 2019They Say Nothing Stays the Same — Regular customer
• 2019Wolf's Calling — Samurai
• 2018KASANE –Beauty and Fate– — Kingo Habuta
• 2018Punk Samurai Slash Down — Hanro Chayama
• 2018The Bastard and the Beautiful World — Daimon (Mad Dog) (segment: Don't Shoot the Pianist!)
• 2018The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers — Christ
• 2018The Outsider — Kiyoshi
• A Life: A Love — Danjo Masao
• 2017Dear Etranger — Makoto Tanaka
• Detective Yugami — Yukimasa Yugami
• 2017Shinjuku Swan II — Masaki Taki
• 2017Thor: Ragnarok — Hogun
• 2016Harmonium — Sotaro Yasaka
• 2016Silence — Interpreter
• 2016The Wasted Times — Watabe
• 2016fuji_jukai.mov — Doctor (Village of Reincarnation)
• 2015Grasshopper — Kujira
• 2015Journey to the Shore — Yusuke
• 2015Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
• 2015Parasyte: Part 2 — Goto
• 2014Kiki's Delivery Service — Dr. Ishi
• 2014Lupin the 3rd — Koichi Zenigata
• 2014My Man — Jungo Kusarino
• 2014Parasyte: Part 1 — Goto
• 2014Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore — The Criminal
• The Long Goodbye — Banji Masuzawa
• 201347 Ronin — Lord Kira
• 2013Children Who Won’t Die — Narrator (voice)
• 2013The Kiyosu Conference — Toshiie Maeda
• 2013Thor: The Dark World — Hogun
• 2012Battleship — Captain Yugi Nagata
• 2012Dearest — Policeman
• 2012Fly with the Gold — Kitagawa
• 2012The Terminal Trust — Noriyuki Takai
• 2011A Flawless Concierge — The Artist
• 2011A Ghost of a Chance — Kenichi Kido
• 2011Moonlight Mask — Taro Okamoto
• 2011Tales of the Bizarre: 2011 Fall Special
• 2011That's the Way! — Fujio Akatsuka
• 2011Thor — Hogun
• 201042 One Dream Rush — Director
• 2010Vengeance Can Wait — Hidenori Yamane
• 2010Wandering Home — Yasuyuki Tsukahara
• 2009Dumbeast — Dekogawa
• 2009Eatrip
• 2009Photographing Mt. Tsurugi: 873 days of fierce fighting at an altitude of 3,000 meters
• 2009Redline — Frisbee (voice)
• 2009SOUL RED Yusaku Matsuda
• 2009Snow Prince
• 2009The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity — Shibasaki
• 2009Villon's Wife — Otani
• 2008Buyusenki Battle Chronicle
• 2008Dreaming Awake
• 2008Kabei: Our Mother — Yamazaki Toru
• 2008R246 STORY — Director
• 2007Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan — Genghis Khan / Temüjin
• 2007Sad Vacation — Kenji Shiraishi
• 2007The Capricious Robot — Mr. N
• 2006Hana — Jubei Kanazawa
• 2006Invisible Waves — Kyoji
• 2005Funky Forest: The First Contact — Masaru Tanaka
• 2005My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? — Mizui
• 2005Portrait of the Wind
• 2005Rampo Noir — Man / Kogoro Akechi / Masaki / Fuyo's Lover
• 2005SORANO
• 2005Takeshis'
• 2005The Buried Forest — San-chan
• 2005Tokyo Zombie — Fujio
• 2004Café Lumière — Hajime Takeuchi
• 2004Soul Dancing
• 2004Survive Style 5+ — Aman
• 2004The Face of Jizo — Mr. Kinoshita
• 2004The Taste of Tea — Ayano Haruno
• 2004The Thirsty Flower: Four by Four Equals One — (voice)
• 2004Tori — Director
• 2004Vital — Hiroshi Takagi
• 20031-Ichi — Original Music Composer
• 2003Bright Future — Mamoru Arita
• 2003Dead End Run
• 2003Iden & Tity
• 2003Last Life in the Universe — Kenji
• 2003My Grandpa — S. Nakatoh
• 2003Zatoichi — Hattori Genosuke
• The Private Detective Mike
• 2002Woman of Water — Yusaku Miyazawa
• 2001Distance — Sakata
• 2001Electric Dragon 80000V — Dragon Eye Morrison
• 2001Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle — Shanao
• 2001Ichi the Killer — Kakihara
• 2001Kaza-hana — Renji Sawashiro
• 2000Party 7 — Okita Souji
• 1999Away with Words — Asano Takashi
• 1999Gemini — Revenger with Sword
• 1999Hakuchi: The Innocent — Isawa
• 1999One Step on a Mine, It's All Over — Taizo Ichinose
• 1999Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl — Kuroo Samehada
• 1999Taboo — Hyozo Tashiro
• 1998Document Love & Pop
• 1998Falling into the Evening
• 1998Love & Pop — Captain XX
• 1998Motorola
• 1998Screwed — Tsube
• 1998Typhoon Shelter
• 1997Labyrinth of Dreams — Tatsuo Niitaka
• 1997Tokyo Fair Weather
• 1996ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius — Hisoka
• 1996Focus — Kanemura
• 1996Helpless — Kenji Shiraishi
• 1996Picnic — Tsumuji
• 1996Swallowtail Butterfly — Customer in the Club
• 1996wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net — Man
• 1996命捧げ候 夢追い坂の決闘
• 1995Maborosi — Ikuo
• 1995Story of Four Sisters
• 1994119 — Satoshi Matsushita
• 1993Fried Dragon Fish — Natsuro
• 1993The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark — Koichi Sunagami
• 1992The Rocking Horsemen — Seiichi Shirai
• 1991Waiting for the Flood — Sadahito Iwata
• 1990Hole in the Pants 5: I Found a Glittering Star!
• 1990Swimming Upstream — Ushi
• Funky Forest: The Second Contact
• Pseudo Idealist

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema — Self
• 2013An Interview with Alien Sun — Self
• 2013An Interview with Tadanobu Asano — Self
• 2013Ichi the Killer - Behind the Scenes — Self
• 2013Ichi the Killer - Making Of — Self
• Family History — Self
• 2007Eli on Ichi — Self
• 2006Cross the Lens — Self
• 2004Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! — Self
• 2003Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa — Himself
• 2001Ah-So Graham Norton — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee