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Revision as of 23:44, 27 December 2005
Profile
- Name: 真田広之 / Sanada Hiroyuki
- Real Name: 下澤廣之
- Date of Birth: 21 October 1960
- Height: 170cm
- Weight:
- Star Sign: Libra
- Blood Type: A
- Birthplace: ：?京都???
- Marital Status: Divorced
- Ex-Spouse: Tezuka Satomi
- Talent Agency:
Biography
Sanada Hiroyuki is a rare animal in the Japanese entertainment world -- an "engi-ha" or actor who can really act. Perhaps this is the greatest compliment that an actor can be paid in Japan, superfluous though it would seem elsewhere. And Sanada is one of the very few who have had the courage to prove this outside Japan. Like the late Mifune Toshiro or Takakura Ken who have proved themselves abroad, or contemporaries such as Yakusho Koji who has dominated the award shows since the mid-1990s, or "The Last Samurai" co-star a Watanabe Ken, Sanada is much in demand for serious films.
Born Shimozawa Hiroyuki, he started his acting career very young, joining the Himawari Drama Company and becoming a magazine model at just five years of age. He appeared in his first movie that same year but shortly after stopped everything to go to school. He lost his father at the age of 11 and started to learn karate the same year. At 13, he joined the Japan Action Club theater group and started to learn jazz dance. At the JAC he became a protoge of such stars as Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba and Sho Kosugi (father of popular young actor Kane Kosugi). He learned horseriding and graduated from the Horikoshi Gakuen high school, a school that specializes in young "talento."
He made a second movie debut at the age of 18 under the name Sanada Hiroyuki in Yagyu Ichizoku no Inbo (Shogun Samurai). The early years of this -- his second acting career -- were spent mostly in similarly low-budget samurai and ninja movies. He became quite popular as a martial artist abroad and used the nicknames "Henry" or "Duke" Sanada. He graduated in Film Science from the arts college of Nihon University in 1982.
In 1987, he won the Golden Arrow award for Best Newcomer for his performance on stage in Little Shop of Horrors. His movie accolades are even more impressive -- he's won the Best Actor prize at the Japan Academy Awards no less than five times. One was for his lead role in the critically acclaimed Tasogare Seibei (The Twilight Samurai, 2002. Photo, left) which also earned an Oscar nomination for an for Best Foreign Picture. At the time of the Japanese awards show, he was in New Zealand filming the Tom Cruise movie, The Last Samurai. On working with the Hollywood star: "When I first met him, he'd already learned Japanese fighting for eight months. But some parts looked western, so I gave him some pointers on grip or stance or how to use his eyes. We trained a lot together. I taught him some forms to make his movement more authentic Japanese. And he was a good learner and a hard worker. Quick learner. Every day he improved, more authentic. So we had a good relationship and we've enjoy rehearsal on the set."
These two movies put him in warrior mode, very much as he was cast in his younger days in martial arts movies. But Sanada is nothing if not versatile. He starred in the Ring/Rasen (Ring/Spiral, 1998) horror series that was so successful as to be remade in Hollywood in 2002. In 2000, he became the first Japanese actor to ever appear with the Royal Shakespeare Company, putting in a creditable English performance in London as King Lear's Fool. And he has starred in a host of other TV series, over 50 movie productions and has even released several albums.
In 1990, he married actress Tezuka Satomi. The couple had two sons but divorced in 1997. Sanada has earned quite a reputation as a playboy, notably having an affair with actress Hazuki Riona, 15 years younger.
Source: Japan Zone
Dramas
- Hikon Kazoku (2001)
- Furuhata Ninzaburo 2 (1999)
- Taburoido (1998)
- Konna koi no hanashi (1997)
- Boku ga kanojo ni shakkin o shita riyu (1994)
- Kou kou kyoushi (1993)
- Taiheiki (1991)
Movies
- The Promise/Master of The Crimson Armour - Wu Ji (2005)
- Last Samurai (2004)
- Lovers Lost - Dotonborigawa
- Ninja in the Dragons Den
- NINJA SECRET SCROLL: MOMOCHI SANDAYU - SHOGUN'S NINJA
- Round About Midnight - Mayonaka made
- Samurai Reincarnation - Makai tenshô
- The Abe Clan - Abe Ichizoku
- Tugumi - Tsugumi
- Twilight Samurai - Tasogare Seibei (2002)
Awards
- 1994 The Best Actor - The Third Television Acadamy Awards Boku ga kanojo ni shakkin o shita riyu
Related News
Boukoku no Aegis, Sanada Hiroyuki, Nakai Kiichi etc
Boukoku Aegis, the blockbuster marine action movie opened at 277 cinemas nationwide on 30 Jul. Cast members including Sanada Hiroyuki, Nakai Kiichi, Sato Koichi, Terao Akira, Kachi Ryo attended the premiere at Yurakucho's Marunouchi Piccadeli 1. About 800 people were there for the screening and the movie looks set to grab the No.1 movie of the year from Koshounin Mashita Masayoshi which is holding the title currently. Other cast members, Ando Masanobu, Tanihara Shosuke and Yoshida Eisaku were at Osaka to promote the movie on the same day. (Jul 31 2005, Dorama World)