Tadanobu Asano is an actor who portrays Kashigi Yabushige in the FX limited series, Shōgun.
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Tadanobu Asano is a Japanese actor and musician. He started his career as an actor at the age of 16 and has become one of the most popular actors in Japan.
In 2007, Asano starred as Genghis Khan in Sergei Bodrov’s Oscar-nominated film Mongol. And in 2011, he starred in the Marvel Studios film Thor as the Asgardian warrior “Hogun,” a member of the Warriors Three and companion to “Thor.” He reprised this role two years later in Thor: The Dark World and again in 2017 in Thor: Ragnarok. In 2016, he also appeared as the “Interpreter” in Martin Scorsese’s Silence and as “Tatsuo Matsumura” in Minamata. Asano is also known for his roles in Midway, The Outsider, 47 Ronin, Battleship, Last Life in the Universe, Zatoichi, Ichi the Killer and Electric Dragon 80.000 V.
Asano received the Upstream Prize for Best Actor at the 2003 Venice Film Festival for his role in Last Life in the Universe. In 2014, he won the award for Best Actor at the 36th Moscow International Film Festival for My Man. He is the recipient of two Asian Film Awards – the first was in 2016 for Best Supporting Actor in Journey to the Shore and then in 2017 for Best Actor for his role in Harmonium.