Asano chuckles when this is mentioned, then quickly notes that while Shōgun sort of fell into his lap — he was not exactly looking to do an 11-month shoot abroad on a massive blockbuster-level ...

Tadanobu Asano attends the red carpet event for FX’s “Shōgun” at the Academy theater in Los Angeles. Michael Tran/AFP/Getty Images “Even when I’ve worked outside of Japan, ...

He boils a man alive in the first episode of FX’s vaunted 10-part series “Shōgun,” but somehow we’re still charmed by Kashigi Yabushige, played by Tadanobu Asano. Like all samurai, he ...

Still, seeing the 51-year-old Tadanobu Asano as the dementia-afflicted dad of an adult daughter in Toshiyuki Teruya’s heartwarming “Kanasando” was a shock.

From left: Tadanobu Asano, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Cosmo Jarvis, Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo. See more photos and video at the link below.

“That guy” is Tadanobu Asano, a charismatic presence in everything from kinetic genre movies to prestigious jidaigeki period pieces since the mid-1990s. He’s worked with a who’s-who of modern Japanese ...