47 Ronin (2013)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
A band of samurai sets out to avenge the death and dishonor of their master at the hands of a ruthless shogun.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kô Shibasaki, Tadanobu Asano, Min Tanaka, Rinko Kikuchi
Director: Carl Rinsch
The Wasted Times / Luo man di ke xiao wang shi (2016)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Over the course of several decades, a deal between the Japanese army and criminals in Shanghai plays out with violence and betrayal.
Starring: You Ge, Ziyi Zhang, Tadanobu Asano, Chun Du, Gillian Chung
Director: Er Cheng
Kate (2021)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A female assassin has 24 hours to get vengeance on her murderer before she dies.
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Woody Harrelson, Miku Patricia Martineau, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Michiel Huisman
Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
Minamata (2020)
Drama
War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Ryô Kase
Director: Andrew Levitas
Mortal Kombat / Mortal Kombat 3 (2021)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
MMA fighter Cole Young seeks out Earth's greatest champions in order to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.
Starring: Hiroyuki Sanada, Lewis Tan, Joe Taslim, Tadanobu Asano, Ludi Lin, Max Huang, Chin Han, Mehcad Brooks, Jessica McNamee
Director: Simon McQuoid
Chiwawa / Chiwawa-chan (2019)
Drama | Mystery
In Tokyo, Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dead body is found in Tokyo Bay. Her body are in pieces. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her like her real name or her background.
Starring: Mugi Kadowaki, Ryô Narita, Kan'ichirô Satô, Tina Tamashiro, Shiori Yoshida, Nijirô Murakami, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Ken Ninomiya
Kasane (2018)
Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
An ugly but talented actress gains the power to copy the bodies of beautiful actresses temporarily. But how long can she maintain the facade?
Starring: Tao Tsuchiya, Kyôko Yoshine, Tadanobu Asano, Rei Dan, Yû Yokoyama
Director: Yûichi Satô
Punk Samurai Slash Down / Panku-zamurai, kirarete sôrô (2018)
Action | Drama
In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze Han clan that a religious cult is aiming for their destruction. This gets him in, but he is soon disproved and arrested. Given the death sentence and awaiting death he has to be quick on his feet and figure out a way to get himself out of the hole. Then the resurrection occurs.
Starring: Gô Ayano, Keiko Kitagawa, Shôta Sometani, Masahiro Higashide, Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Jun Murakami
Director: Gakuryû Ishii
Umoregi / The Buried Forest (2005)
Drama
Machi, a young high school student from a small mountain town, is having fun with her friends inventing the outline of a fantasy tale. They all add an episode to this exquisite invention whilst, in parallel, the adults pursue their daily life. But when, due to a storm, an intact thousand-year-old forest surfaces from the entrails of the earth, a new space opens up where reality and fantasy mingle and where everything becomes possible.
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Mai Enoki, Tokie Hidari, Mitsuru Hirata, Karen
Director: Kôhei Oguri
Ichi the Killer / Koroshiya 1 (2001)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ohmori, Paulyn Sun, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Susumu Terajima, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Suzuki Matsuo, Jun Kunimura
Director: Takashi Miike
Maborosi / Maboroshi no hikari (1995)
Drama
A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.
Starring: Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naitô, Tadanobu Asano, Akira Emoto, Mutsuko Sakura, Minori Terada, Ren Osugi
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
More Than Flower / Hana / Hana yori mo naho (2006)
Comedy | Drama
A troubled young samurai seeks revenge for the death of his father.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Arata Furuta, Jun Kunimura, Katsuo Nakamura, Tadanobu Asano, Yoshio Harada, Teruyuki Kagawa
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Dear Etranger / Osanago warera ni umare (2017)
Drama | Family
A 40-year old man sees his life change when his wife gets pregnant. He already has a daughter from his first marriage whom he rarely sees and two step-daughters, from his wife's first marriage. The youngest of his step-daughters is looking forward to a baby brother or sister, but the oldest doesn't welcome the news and suddenly decides that she wants to live with her father. And as if that were not enough trouble, he is forced out of his good office job into an inferior position.
Starring: Rena Tanaka, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Yukiko Mishima
The Outsider (2018)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza.
Starring: Jared Leto, Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shîna, Rory Cochrane
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Shinjuku Swan II / Shinjuku suwan II (2017)
Action
Based on the manga series "Shinjuku Swan Kabukicho Skauto Sabaibaru" by Ken Wakui (first published 2005 in Weekly Young Magazine). Tatsuhiko Shiratori (Gou Ayano) works as a scout, recruiting girls to work in the adult entertainment business. He movies to Yokohama from Shinjuku, Tokyo. He comes into conflict with Masaki Taki (Tadanobu Asano) who is the CEO of a scout company.
Starring: Gô Ayano, Tadanobu Asano, Yûsuke Iseya, Motoki Fukami, Nobuaki Kaneko
Director: Sion Sono
Harmonium / Fuchi ni tatsu (2016)
Drama
Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui, Kanji Furutachi, Taiga, Momone Shinokawa, Takahiro Miura, Kana Mahiro
Director: Kôji Fukada
Silence (2016)
Drama
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Ciarán Hinds, Tadanobu Asano, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Martin Scorsese
Silence (2016)
Drama
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Ciarán Hinds, Tadanobu Asano, Shinya Tsukamoto
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Vital / Vuitaru (2004)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama died, Hiroshi Takagi suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a book about dissection, he decides to join the medical school with the support of his parents. In the dissection class, his group participates of the autopsy of a young woman, and while cutting apart the tissue, he partially recalls his accident. Later, when he sees a tattoo in the arm of the corpse, he discloses that she was his girlfriend and becomes obsessed to go further in the examination of the body.
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Kiki, Nami Tsukamoto, Kazuyoshi Kushida, Lily
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
The Face of Jizo / Chichi to kuraseba (2004)
Drama
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
Starring: Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Kazuo Kuroki
