Tadanobu Asano is a Japanese actor and musician who was born on November 27, 1973, in Yokohama, Japan. He made his debut in the long-running drama series “Mr. Kinpachi in Class 3B,” which began airing in 1979, when he was aged just 16. He has since followed up with scores of movie and TV drama title hits, such as the series “A Life: A Love” and the wartime movie “Midway,” about the battle of the same name, in 2019. He has also starred in the film “Detective Chinatown 3” (2021) and featured as the character Raiden in the 2021 live-action movie version of the hit video game “Mortal Kombat.”

Tadanobu Asano

The young, straight-laced and highly analytical Chinese detective Qin Feng (Liu Hao Ran) has been forced into an uneasy partnership with his polar opposite, the noisy and hyperactive Thai investigator Tang Ren (Wang Bao Qiang).

After investigating cases in Bangkok and New York, they have now been sent to Tokyo, Japan, where they must get to the bottom of an unusual crime.

After the sudden murder of a Japanese mafia kingpin, the chief suspect is one of his rivals, a cool, calculated man named Watanabe (Miura Tomokazu).

But Watanabe claims he is innocent of the crime, and wants the detective duo to help him clear his name.

The roving investigators agree to look into the case, and are soon sucked into a madcap journey into the underworld, uncovering dark underworld conspiracies...and evidence of the possible involvement of a woman who used to work with the murdered mob boss, his former assistant Anna Kobayashi (Nagasawa Masami).

“Detective Chinatown 3” is a 2021 Chinese movie that was directed by Chen Si Cheng.

Detective Chinatown 3

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Emperor Film Production, Huayi Brothers Pictures

During the turbulent times of the Sino-Japanese War and World War II, events unfold that will test loyalties and the endurance of the human spirit.

Lu (Ge You) is a ruthless Chinese mob boss whose alliance is tested when he is approached to collaborate with Japanese military occupiers. His brother-in-law, Watanabe (Tadanobu Asano), is a Japanese national who claims to be “Shanghainese” but is secretly working for the Japanese. Xiao Liu (Zhang Zi Yi) is a promiscuous actress and the wife of Lu’s boss. After an affair with her costar, Xiao Liu is sent out of the city by her husband. But when Lu assigns Watanabe to carry out the task, Watanabe ends up raping Xiao Liu and keeping her as a sex slave for years.

After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Lu finds Xiao Liu in a Shanghai hospice. They both decide they have unfinished business with Watanabe and decide to go search for him.

“The Wasted Times” is a 2016 Chinese-Hong Kong film directed by Cheng Er.

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