Tadanobu Asano is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille!

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Tadanobu Asano is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille!

A couple of months back I posted 5 stills of Song Kang-Ho in the ScreenAnarchy-O-Meter for people to guess which movie they were from, and I got a lot of positive feedback.
So let's try this once more, with another Asian actor I love: Tadanobu Asano.

The first time I saw Tadanobu Asano was in Miike Takashi's "Ichi the Killer", and that's the picture on the left. His Kakahira is a sight to behold, in fact it's downright impossible to look away from him.

Seeing Asano in other movies was a bit of a revelation. Never mind what role he plays there is always a quiet dignity underneath. And when you see his face it's like you can see straight into his soul, guarded or not. Humble, hurt, arrogant, lazy, simmering, rotten...
How exactly can he act so well, often seemingly without moving a single facial muscle? I honestly think I'll never know.

But I think he's very cool and my wife thinks he's very handsome (she hasn't seen "Ichi the Killer" yet...).
Thankfully his choice of movies is generally excellent, so for both of us a film will automatically get our seal of approval once we know he's in it.


Which means that once again, instead of the usual list I'd like to do a gallery of 5 close-ups of another one of my favorite thespians.
Guess which 5 movies they're from and I'll post the answers Friday (earlier if someone has all 5 of them right).
No competition, no prizes, just for fun, try to see how far you get without using IMDB.

The "Ichi the Killer" pic doesn't count as I gave it away already, but good luck with the other 5!

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