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Tadanobu Asano
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Tadanobu Asano - what members say
review by from Newcastle
A Piece of Art. Gory art. But still art.. 1 March 2006
review by A customer from London, UK
Worth watching 4 March 2006
review by DJM666 from Walsall, England
Extremely entertaining 5 June 2006
Tadanobu Asano - filmography
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Redline
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Yu Aoi, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Takesi Koike
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Redline follows JP, a daredevil driver with his customized vehicle named "Trans Am." He enters an interplanetary tournament, held once every five years, where the deadliest racers compete and many people plan to play the game for their own ends. The film is produced by the studio MADHOUSE (Ninja ..read more »
 
62%
from 109 members
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Redline - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Takuya Kimura, Yu Aoi, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Takesi Koike
Certificate:
Redline follows JP, a daredevil driver with his customized vehicle named "Trans Am." He enters an interplanetary tournament, held once every five years, where the deadliest racers compete and many people plan to play the game for their own ends. The film is produced by the studio MADHOUSE (Ninja ..read more »
60%
from 138 members
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Mongol - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Channing Tatum, Khulan Chuluun
Director: Sergei Bodrov
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Director Sergei Bodrov's sweeping MONGOL focuses on battles physical and emotional as it follows the early ascent of the 'Great King' Genghis Khan in the 12th and 13th centuries. Born Temudgin to a kingly father, the film introduces the nine-year-old (Odnyam Odsuren) making his first fateful ..read more »
70%
from 4,173 members
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Mongol
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Khulan Chuluun, Amadu Mamadakov
Director: Sergei Bodrov
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"Mongol" delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of Genghis Khan, who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the ..read more »
69%
from 21,927 members
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Invisible Waves
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Hye-jeong Kang, Hye-Jeong Kang
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
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After inadvertently killing his girlfriend, a man (Asano) flees Macau for Thailand in an attempt to cope with his guilt, and avoid possible arrest. But the relocation doesn't prevent his problems from following him, as his new friends could be potential enemies.
59%
from 245 members
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Tokyo Zombie
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Show Aikawa, Erika Okuda
Director: Sakichi Satô
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THE JAPANESE SHAUN OF THE DEAD! Over in a forgotten corner of a near-future Tokyosits Black Fuji, a mountain of garbage and unwanted junk, from discarded appliances to the bodies of whining mothers-in-law, the mountain is home to Tokyo's dirty secrets. Through a combination of toxic waste and the ..read more »
57%
from 552 members
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The Taste Of Tea
(2004)
Starring: Tomokazu Miura, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Gasyuin
Director: Katsuhito Ishii
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Meet the Harunos, a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family nonetheless. They live in a small town in the mountains just out of Tokyo where life is good and quiet - but that doesn't mean they don't have their own little problems.
80%
from 29 members
Currently unavailable
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Cafe Lumiere
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
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Hou Hsiao-Hsien, one of China's greatest filmmakers, honours the memory of the great Yasujiro Ozu in the beautiful CAFE LUMIERE. Like Ozu, Hou tries to capture honesty and reality in the film, which stars pop idol Yo Hitoto as Yoko, a young woman who makes her way through life almost casually, not ..read more »
57%
from 654 members
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Vital
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
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A man awakes in a hospital after a car accident to discover that he has lost his memory. At first he is unable to even recognise his parents, but, as his memories return so does his earlier interest in medicine. After enrolling in a medical course, he soon finds himself having to dissect a female ..read more »
49%
from 1,192 member
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Survive Style 5+
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Vinnie Jones, Tadanobu Asano, Sonny Chiba
Director: Gen Sekiguchi
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Three storylines are threaded together in this offbeat Gen Sekiguchi film. A man is left believing he is a bird when the hypnotist is murdered during his act; a group of burglars deal with their mutual desires for each other as they patrol the streets; and a wife that has been murdered by her ..read more »
70%
from 1,133 member
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Bright Future
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jo Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Friends Mamoru and Yuji are aimless young men stuck in dead-end jobs in a dreary factory in Tokyo. Mamoru, the more antisocial of the two, is obsessed with his pet project of acclimating a poisonous jellyfish to fresh water by gradually changing the water in its tank. One night, he inexplicably ..read more »
61%
from 324 members
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Zatoichi
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Watch now: Unavailable
Takeshi Kitano, best known for such gangster films as VIOLENT COP, BOILING POINT, and BROTHER, makes his first period drama with ZATOICHI, an updating of the classic Japanese character portrayed by Shintaro Katsu in movies and television from 1962 to 1989. Zatoichi is a blind samurai who shuffles ..read more »
71%
from 20,574 members
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Zatoichi - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano
Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
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Watch now: Unavailable
Takeshi Kitano, best known for such gangster films as VIOLENT COP, BOILING POINT, and BROTHER, makes his first period drama with ZATOICHI, an updating of the classic Japanese character portrayed by Shintaro Katsu in movies and television from 1962 to 1989. Zatoichi is a blind samurai who shuffles ..read more »
74%
from 1,137 member
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Ichi The Killer - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Takashi Miike
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Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film ..read more »
73%
from 252 members
Currently unavailable
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Ichi The Killer
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Takashi Miike
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Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film ..read more »
64%
from 9,667 members
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Gojoe
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Daisuke Ryu
Director: Sogo Ishii
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An extravagant adventure fantasy in the samurai tradition, 'Gojoe' is a special effects-filled joyride with that increasingly anomalous trait: a thoughtful story. Benkei is a former warrior who has become a Buddhist monk, but when the GoJoe Bridge turns into the scene of a massacre, with an unknown ..read more »
49%
from 848 members
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Gohatto
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Widely regarded as the greatest living Japanese director as well as one of the film world's foremost hierophants of transgression, Nagisa Oshima returns from a long hiatus with a film worthy of his reputation. Set in 1865 during the waning days of the Tokugawa shogunate, it focuses on an exotic ..read more »
63%
from 1,997 member
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Away With Words
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Georgina Hobson, Christa Hughes
Director: Christopher Doyle
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Asano has a phenomenal memory. For him, words take a unique form as he tastes, smells and visualises them to the point where he can never forget a word once he has heard it. One day, he decides to travel and arrives in Hong Kong where he soon encounters Kevin, a man who soon becomes lover, ..read more »
52%
from 58 members
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
(1998)
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Ittoku Kishibe
Director: Katsuhito Ishii
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Tadanobu Asano stars in this violent thriller/comedy as Samehada, the Shark Skin Man of the title. The film begins as Samehada is making a getaway from some former yakuza cohorts when his car is struck by a pretty young woman piloting an SUV. Named Toshiko, she is also on the run, and the two ..read more »
66%
from 30 members
Currently unavailable
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Maborosi
(1995)
Starring: Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naito, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
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A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.
58%
from 680 members
Not currently released
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Tadanobu Asano facts
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... directed. The storyline is just inspired and the performances (especially from Tadanobu Asano) are first class.
Obviously do not watch this if you have ever been offended...
