{"id":1182,"date":"2015-05-28T19:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T02:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jffsf.org\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2017-05-30T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:10:08","slug":"tadanobu-asano-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/tadanobu-asano-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30102015-Archive\u3011Tadanobu Asano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tadanobu Asano \u2013 Actor \/ Musician<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBorn November 27, 1973 in the Kanagawa prefecture of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, he received the Upstream Prize for Best Actor at the 60th Annual Venice Film Festival for his role in the arthouse film <em>Last Life In The Universe<\/em> directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. He later portrayed a young Genghis Khan in Sergei Bodrov&#8217;s film <em>Mongol<\/em>, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, he received a Best Actor award at the 33rd Japanese Academy Awards for his roles in the films <em>Villon&#8217;s Wife and Mt. Tsurugidake<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>In 2011, he had his Hollywood debut in the Marvel Studios film <em>Thor<\/em>, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Just last year, he won the award for Best Actor at the 36th Moscow International Film Festival for his role in the Kazuyoshi Kumakiri film <em>My Man<\/em>, which also won the coveted Golden George award. Earlier this year he also received an award for Best Actor at the 57th Blue Ribbon Awards for the same role.  <\/p>\n<p>His newest film, Takashi Yamazaki&#8217;s <em>Parasyte: Part 2<\/em>, is currently in theaters. <\/p>\n<p>His upcoming films include the Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed <em>Journey To The Shore<\/em>, which has already received a prize for Best Director at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and Tomoyuki Takimoto directed <em>Grasshopper<\/em>, set to premiere October 1 and November 7, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>With his unique presence in internationally acclaimed films, Tadanobu Asano has come to be a major representative of Japan and is known as one of the premier Japanese actors of today. <\/p>\n<p>Tadanobu Asano <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tadanobu.asano.official\" target=\"blank\"><span style=\"color:#f15a22;\">Facebook<\/a><\/span> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asano_tadanobu\" target=\"blank\"><span style=\"color:#f15a22;\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/tadanobu_asano\/\" target=\"blank\"><span style=\"color:#f15a22;\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\uff0a\uff0a\uff0a This Event Has ENDED \uff0a\uff0a\uff0a<br \/>\nParticipating Events:<br \/>\n\u2605 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/opening-night\"><span style=\"color:#f15a22;\">Opening Night at Castro Theatre<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n2015, August 7th (Fri) 8pm | Castro Theatre \u3000<a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/opening-night\"><span style=\"color:#f15a22;\">\u261e Read details <\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u2605 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/my-man\/\" title=\"myman\"><span style=\"color:#f15a22;\"><em>My Man<\/em><\/a><\/span> film screening + Q&#038;A<br \/>\nAugust 8th (Sat) 6pm @ NEW PEOPLE Cinema <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/my-man\/\" title=\"myman\"><span style=\"color:#f15a22;\">\u261e Read details<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHe will be joining more events at J-POP SUMMIT at Fort Mason Center! Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tadanobu Asano \u2013 Actor \/ Musician Born November 27, 1973&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guests","category-live-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.j-pop.com\/jffsf\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}