Tadanobu Asano

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

Dir. Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks · With Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai

Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth's greatest champions as he prepares to stand against the enemies of Outworld in a high stakes battle for the universe.

Dir. Simon McQuoid · With Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Mehcad Brooks

A spell of time in the life of the five-piece Haruno family in rural Tochigi Prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project. Uncle Ayano, a successful music producer, is looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Sachiko is concerned with why she seems to be followed by a giant version of herself. As the lazy days pass by, each member of the family is followed in a series of episodic vignettes.

Dir. Katsuhito Ishii · With Maya Suzuno, Takahiro Sato, Tadanobu Asano

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.

Dir. Takeshi Kitano · With Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Yasuda

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.

Dir. Takashi Miike · With Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto

Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat murders'. High school student Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.

Dir. Takashi Yamazaki · With Shota Sometani, Sadao Abe, Eri Fukatsu

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda · With Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano, Takashi Naito

Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.

Dir. Takashi Yamazaki · With Shota Sometani, Ai Hashimoto, Sadao Abe

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

Dir. Gen Sekiguchi · With Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, Kyoko Koizumi

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.

Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson

A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs every five years, but in order to participate he must overcome the mafia, the government and even love.

Dir. Takeshi Koike · With Takuya Kimura, Yu Aoi, Tadanobu Asano

A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.

Dir. Cedric Nicolas-Troyan · With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson

Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

Dir. Alan Taylor · With Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston

An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of a young girl and becomes acquainted with her elder sister.

Dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang · With Tadanobu Asano, Daran Boonyasak, Chermarn Boonyasak

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

Dir. Andrew Levitas · With Johnny Depp, Minami, Hiroyuki Sanada

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

Dir. Sergei Bodrov · With Tadanobu Asano, Sun Honglei, Khulan Chuluun

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fellow student, but it's another who becomes his obsession: the dead woman on the cadaver table.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.

Dir. Nagisa Ōshima · With Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Tadanobu Asano

Interpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Arsène Lupin III, who, with his cavalcade of collaborators infiltrate a highly secured fortress-like safe named the 'Ark of Navarone' to claim the "Crimson Heart of Cleopatra".

Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura · With Shun Oguri, Meisa Kuroki, Go Ayano

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.

Dir. Peter Berg · With Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

Dir. Martin Zandvliet · With Jared Leto, Tadanobu Asano, Kippei Shiina

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

Dir. Carl Rinsch · With Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki