Global InformationHiroyuki Sanada information
Hiroyuki Sanada MBE | |||||
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真田 広之 | |||||
 Sanada on a press tour for the series Helix (2013) | |||||
| Born | Hiroyuki Shimozawa (下澤 廣之) 12 October 1960 Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan | ||||
| Occupation(s) | Actor, singer, martial artist | ||||
| Years active | 1965–present | ||||
| Spouse |
Satomi Tezuka
(m. 1990; div. 1997) | ||||
| Children | 2 | ||||
| Japanese name | |||||
| Kanji | 真田 広之 | ||||
| Hiragana | さなだ ひろゆき | ||||
| Katakana | サナダ ヒロユキ | ||||
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Hiroyuki Sanada MBE (真田 広之, Sanada Hiroyuki, born Shimozawa; 12 October 1960)[1] is a Japanese actor, singer and martial artist. He began his career in the mid-1960s at the age of six, and gained prominence for his roles in Japanese and Hong Kong action films, later establishing himself as a dramatic actor.
He is best known to international audiences for his roles as Ryuji Takayama in Ring (1998) where he played alongside Nanako Matsushima who was also his co-star in a 1997 television drama A Story of Love.[2] Beginning in the 2000s, Sanada grew his Hollywood presence with such roles as Seibei Iguchi in The Twilight Samurai (2002), Ujio in The Last Samurai (2003), Kenji in Rush Hour 3 (2007), and Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion in Mortal Kombat (2021).[3][4] His role as The Fool in the Shakespeare play King Lear also gave him notable theatrical attention in the United Kingdom.
He made his first major Hollywood appearance portraying Ujio in The Last Samurai (2003), later appearing in such films as Sunshine (2007), Speed Racer (2008), The Wolverine, 47 Ronin (both 2013), Minions (2015), Life (2017), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Army of the Dead (2021), Bullet Train (2022), and John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023). He also had recurring roles on Lost (2010) and the HBO series Westworld (2018–2020). In 2024 he starred in the FX miniseries Shōgun as Yoshii Toranaga, a fictionalized version of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
He has received numerous accolades, including two Hochi Film Awards, two Japan Academy Film Prizes, a Mainichi Film Award, three Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor, four Kinema Junpo Awards, and honors from the Yokohama Film Festival. In 2018, he received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese government for his "artistic developments, improvements, and accomplishments".[5]
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- ^ "Konna Koi no Hanashi | こんな恋のはなし (1997) download j-drama". Project "Restoration". 21 March 2016. Archived from the original on 29 February 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ Kroll, Justin (27 August 2019). "'Mortal Kombat' Reboot Finds Its Shang Tsung and Scorpion (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 27 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "Chin Han & Hiroyuki Sanada join Mortal Kombat as Shang Tsung and Scorpion". www.joblo.com. 27 August 2019. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ "真田広之に紫綬褒章「日本文化を発信していきたい」". スポーツ報知 (in Japanese). 2 November 2018. Archived from the original on 16 July 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2023.