Hiroyuki Sanada
Actor
- Ninja Wars (Iga ninpûchô) (1982)
- Dir. Mitsumasa Saito
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Sonny Chiba
- Period fantasy action involving magicians, love potions and endangered royalty in ancient Japan, a story resolved with a fair amount of…
- Legend of the Eight Samurai (Satomi hakken-den) (1983)
- Dir. Fukasaku Kinji
Feat. Sonny Chiba, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada
- In an ancient unspecified era, eight samurai must battle supernatural forces, witches and other hazards to rescue a princess, who is about to be…
- Ring (Ringu) (1998)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada
- A cult phenomenon in Japan and everywhere else it’s played, it’s since spawned a sequel, a prequel, both a Korean and American remake, and its…
- Ring: The Spiral (Rasen) (1998)
- Dir. Jôji Iida
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani
- The 'lost' first sequel to RINGU, follows on from the tale of the lethal videotape and the demonic Sadako with the rather prosaic solution to the…
- Twilight Samurai, The (Tasogare Seibei) (2002)
- Dir. Yoji Yamada
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Ren Osugi, Rie Miyazawa…
- Boldly subverting the masculine cliches of the genre, this refreshing and highly rewarding Samurai drama follows a dishevelled, low–status…
- Last Samurai, The (2003)
- Dir. Edward Zwick
Feat. Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, William Atherton…
- Swathed in the scenery of New Zealand, this enactment of the Japanese civil wars of the late 19th century is an ambitious, though…
- White Countess, The (2005)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave…
- Set in the tumult of 1930s Shanghai, when China was threatened with Japanese invasion, this final Merchant–Ivory production (producer Ismail…
- Promise, The (Wu ji) (2005)
- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang, Cecilia Cheung…
- Visually exquisite, if utterly frivolous Golden Globe–nominated romantic epic from the director of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE relays the story of…
- Sunshine (2007)
- Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh…
- Proverbial space peril from the creators of 28 DAYS LATER; a crew of astronauts, and mankind’s last hope, set about delivering a nuclear payload to…
- Wolverine, The (2013)
- Dir. James Mangold
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima…
- Hugh Jackman returns as X–Men's cult anti–hero in this Japan–set saga centred on deadly samurai and an old nemesis.
- 47 Ronin (2013)
- Dir. Carl Rinsch
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ko Shibasaki…
- A rogue big screen retelling of an ancient Japanese legend, about a band of samurai determined to avenge the death of their master.
Awkwardly…
- Railway Man, The (2013)
- Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Feat. Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Hiroyuki Sanada…
- Tormented by his experience as a prisoner of war, a former British Army officer confronts one of his torturers in civilian times this haunting…
- Helix (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Billy Campbell, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyra Zagorsky…
- Schlocky sci–fi thriller series from the Syfy channel that follows a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
- Mr. Holmes (2015)
- Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada…
- An intriguing take on the great detective's final years with Ian McKellen in his element as the retired Sherlock Holmes who, dealing with early…
- Life (2017)
- Dir. Daniel Espinosa
Feat. Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson…
- Claustrophobic white knuckle horror where a team of scientists on an international space station discover that the biological sample they took from…