Hiroyuki Sanada began as a child actor and trained in martial arts from the age of five, becoming a major star in Japan before working internationally.
Ringu, The Twilight Samurai and Royal Space Force established the Japanese career, and The Twilight Samurai in particular is a quiet, unheroic performance in a genre built on the opposite.
He worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in King Lear, in English, which is a remarkable pivot, and then appeared in The Last Samurai, Sunshine, 47 Ronin and Mortal Kombat.
Shogun brought a late and enormous surge in recognition, and he produced it as well as starring.
Christina RicciSpeed Racer (2008) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The Wachowskis spent a hundred and twenty million dollars building a candy-colored world with no shadows in it, made ninety-four back, and produced the most misunderstood studio film…
Hiroyuki SanadaHideo Nakata directs the Japanese supernatural horror about a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching. Ringu is Hideo Nakata's 1998 Japanese supernatural horror film adapted from Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel, depicting a Tokyo television reporter investigating a…
Hiroyuki SanadaYoji Yamada's 2002 late-Edo samurai drama. Hiroyuki Sanada as widowed petty officer.
Bill SkarsgardKeanu Reeves as the retired assassin. Action choreography that reshaped contemporary American action cinema.
Chris EvansMichelle Yeoh plays Corazon. The film made approximately thirty-two million dollars worldwide on a forty million dollar budget.
Famke JanssenJames Mangold's first Wolverine film. Japan setting, bullet train sequence, the foundation that led to Logan.
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