| NEWS |
| 2008.1.23 |
"MONGOL" was nominated for
a Best Foreign Language Film of the Year in the 80th Annual Academy
Awards! |
| 2008.1.21 |  Rebel, Artist, Superstar: The Films of Tadanobu Asano As part of the JAPAN! Culture＋hiper-culture festival held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Freer presents five films starring Tadanobu Asano. Vital Friday, February 1, 2008, 7:00 pm, Meyer Auditorium In person: Tadanobu Asano Last Life in the Universe Saturday, February 2, 2008, 2:00 pm, Meyer Auditorium In person: Tadanobu Asano Sad Vacation Sunday, February 3, 2008, 2:00 pm, Meyer Auditorium In person: Tadanobu Asano Tori Friday, February 8, 2008, 7:00 pm, Meyer Auditorium Bright Future Sunday, February 10, 2008, 2:00 pm, Meyer Auditorium more info: http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp |
| 2006.8.24 |  Now Asano is on location in China for the shooting of "MONGOL" directed by Sergei Bodrov. |
   Asano was featured in some magazines. Men's Style (Taiwan) -December 2005 No.31- East Touch (Hong Kong) -18 April 2006 issue V68- Esquire (Hong Kong) -May 2006 No.210- |
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| 2006.2.21 |   Asano has just returned from the Berlin IFF and the Bangkok IFF. He took many pictures there. You can see them on his own web diary (but it's in Japanese only...). http://www.anore.co.jp/asano/diary/index.html |
| 2006.1.19 | Asano received the Best Actor Award at the 60th Mainichi Film Contest for the movie, Tagatameni and Rampo Jigoku. |
| 2006.1 | Asano will visit Germany to join the Berlin International
Film Festival with Pen-ek Ratanaruang, whose upcoming film "INVISIBLE
WAVES" is competing. After the Berlin IFF, Asano will go to Thailand to take part in the Bangkok International Film Festival. |
| 2005 |  Asano had been on location in China for the shooting of "MONGOL" directed by Sergei Bodrov. He will visit China again in the summer of 2006. |
| 2005 | Asano visited Bangkok, Phuket and Macao to shoot "INVISIBLE WAVES" directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang . |
| 2005 | Asano visited... Taiwan for the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, France for the 58th Cannes Film Festival and Berlin for the 55th Berlin Film Festival. |
| 2004/1/19 | "Interview
Magazine"(USA) wrote a feature on Asano. For this feature, Karl Lagerfeld photographed artists in contemporary Japanese film, music, art, television, architecture, and literature . |
| 2004/1/19 | Asano attended the 55th Berlin International Film
Festival (February 10 -20, 2005) Berlinale-Talentcampus#3 schedule and more details are ; Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 2 p.m., House of World Cultures The Birth of Cool -Asano Tadanobu Japan meets Europe - Teeny-Idol Asano Tadanobu (Last Life in Universe; Zatoichi; Electric Dragon 80.000 Volt), frequently called the Japanese Johnny Depp, is one of the most important and hippest actors in Japan. He has worked with directors like Miike, Kitano and Oshima, whose influence can be seen in Tori, Asano Tadanobu's first work as a director. Tori is an omnibus-film made up of five short films which, according to Asano, are visualisations of his dreams. The film distributor and Japan specialist Stephan Holl (Rapid Eye Movies) will interview this all-rounder creative genius. Asano Tadanobu is also active as a musician, model, artist, poet and calligrapher. |
| 2003/9/06 | Asano recieved the Upstream Prize for Best Actor at 60th Venice Film Festival for the movie, Last life in the univierse by Pen-ek Ratanaruang ! |
| 2003/5/20 | "Bright Future" was in Competition of the 56th Cannes Film Festival. |
| 2002/3/19 |
The 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival |
| 2002/1/22 |
Rotterdam Film Fetival " ICHI THE KILLER " screening schedule
in Rotterdam |
| 2002/1/11 | Asano visited The Netherlands to join Rotterdam Film Festival on 27th January. Screening schedule and more details are below; |
| 2001/12/5 |
"ICHI THE KILLER" started to show on 22nd
January 2002 in Japan. This movie had been already shown in Tronto
Film Festival, Vancouver Film Festival, London Film Festival and Stockholm
Film Festival . And the Audiences had received a paper bag from the
distributor for VOMIT. |
| 2001/12/5 | Thai Film Festival invited Asano as a judge. This
honor was the first time for him. He watched movies in some languages with the Japanese text. |
| 2001/7/13 | Asano's interview was in the magazine, "Man-ga!"(Italy). |
| 2001/7/13 | "Hakuchi" aka "The innocent" was distributed in Europe |
| 2001 | "DISTANCE" was in Competition of the 54th Cannes Film Festival. |
| 2001 | His interview was on the magazine, "Giant Robot"(US), soon. |
| 2001 | "Electric Dragon 80000V" started showing on 20th July in Tokyo. |
| 2001 | "DISTANCE" started showing on May 26th in Tokyo. |
| 2001 | "Pary 7" and "Kaza-hana" was shown until the end of May in Japan. |
