Hiroyuki Sanada

Hiroyuki Sanada (真田広之, Sanada Hiroyuki, born Hiroyuki Shimosawa (下澤廣之, Shimosawa Hiroyuki); 12 October 1960) is a Japanese actor from Tokyo. Before breaking in to the movie business, he trained at Sonny Chiba’s Japan Action Club hoping to one day become a martial arts action film star. Sanada appeared in many action films in the 70s and early 80s, but as it became clear he was actually a talented and well-rounded actor, he was able to branch out into all different types of roles in every genre. Today he is best known in the west for his involvement in big-budget Hollywood productions such as The Last Samurai and Rush Hour 3.

Known For: Acting

Born: Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, 1960-10-12

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	Game of Chance	Kenichi Endo	60
2	1967	Game of Chance 2		60
3	1967	Game of Chance 3		60
4	1969	New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town		60
5	1974	The Executioner	Toga	66
6	1978	Shogun's Samurai	Hayate	71
7	1978	Message from Space	Shiro Hongo	58
8	1978	Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie	Gen Hayato / Maboroshi	0
9	1979	The Shogun Assassins	Monk Miyoshi Isa	50
10	1979	G.I. Samurai	Takeda Katsuyori	60
11	1980	Dreamy Fifteen	Isozaki	63
12	1980	Shogun's Ninja	Momochi Takamaru	62
13	1981	Space Ninja: Sword of the Space Ark		20
14	1981	Samurai Reincarnation	Kirimaru Iga	60
15	1981	Roaring Fire	Joji	63
16	1981	Kamikaze, the Adventurer	Akira Hoshino	56
17	1981	The Blazing Valiant	Joe	50
18	1982	Lovers Lost	Kunihiko Yasuoka	71
19	1982	Ninja in the Dragon's Den	Genbu	76
20	1982	Fall Guy	Actor	61
21	1982	Ninja Wars	Jotaro Fuefuki	56
22	1983	Kabamaru the Ninja Boy	Shizune Mejiro	50
23	1983	Legend of the Eight Samurai	Inue Shinbei Masashi	58
24	1984	The Awesome Circus Bastard	Satomi Go	0
25	1984	The Street of Desire	Joji Tanaka	0
26	1984	Kotaro, An Audacious Karate Boy	Date Yoshioka	50
27	1984	Mahjong Horoki	Bouya Tetsu	65
28	1985	The Dagger of Kamui	Jirô	61
29	1986	House on Fire	Chuya Nakahara	46
30	1986	One Who Died in Vain		74
31	1986	Cabaret	Tanokura	47
32	1986	Royal Warriors	Peter Yamamoto	70
33	1987	Sure Death 4	Ukyo	66
34	1987	松田聖子のスイート・メモリーズ		0
35	1988	Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special		0
36	1988	Kaito Ruby	Toru Hayashi	73
37	1989	Why Do I Choose?		0
38	1990	Shingo's Ten Duels	Aoi Shingo	0
39	1990	Yellow Fangs	Eiji	68
40	1990	Let's Go to the Hospital		60
41	1990	Tsugumi	Kyoichi Takahashi	60
42	1992	Oda Nobunaga		80
43	1992	Succession	Masakazu Yoshinari	60
44	1992	Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2		20
45	1993	We Are Not Alone		56
46	1993	The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark	Detective Same	0
47	1994	Uneasy Encounters		0
48	1994	Hero Interview	Jinta Todoroki	0
49	1994	Crest of Betrayal	Takuminokami Asano	61
50	1994	119		60
51	1995	Sharaku	Tonbo	61
52	1995	East Meets West	Kamijo Kenkichi	58
53	1995	The Abe Clan	Emoto Matashichiro	70
54	1998	Ring	Ryuji Takayama	71
55	1998	The Spiral	Ryûji Takayama	54
56	1998	Murder on D Street	Seiichiro Fukiya	72
57	1998	Tadon and Chikuwa		0
58	1999	Ring 2	Ryuji Takayama	58
59	1999	Keijitachi no Natsu		0
60	1999	Round About Midnight	Koji	68
61	2000	First Love	Shinichirô Fujiki	69
62	2001	All About Our House	Bartender	59
63	2001	Onmyoji	Dōson	62
64	2002	Vengeance for Sale	Sukeroku Sukedachiya	64
65	2002	The Twilight Samurai	Seibei Iguchi	78
66	2003	The Last Samurai	Ujio	76
67	2005	Aegis	Hisashi Sengoku	42
68	2005	The White Countess	Matsuda	63
69	2005	The Promise	General Guangming	56
70	2007	Sunshine	Kaneda	70
71	2007	Rush Hour 3	Kenji	65
72	2008	Speed Racer	Mr. Musha	63
73	2009	The City of Your Final Destination	Pete	57
74	2013	The Wolverine	Shingen Harada / Lord Shingen	64
75	2013	The Railway Man	Nagase	69
76	2013	The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin	Self	68
77	2013	47 Ronin	Kuranosuke Ôishi	62
78	2015	Minions	Sumo (voice)	64
79	2015	Mr. Holmes	Tamiki Umezaki	65
80	2017	Life	Sho Murakami	64
81	2018	The Catcher Was a Spy	Kawabata	62
82	2019	Avengers: Endgame	Akihiko	82
83	2020	Minamata	Mitsuo Yamazaki	70
84	2021	Mortal Kombat	Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion	70
85	2021	Army of the Dead	Bly Tanaka	62
86	2022	Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye	Akihiko (archive footage)	70
87	2022	Bullet Train	The Elder	74
88	2023	John Wick: Chapter 4	Shimazu	77
89	2025	Mortal Kombat 2	Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai	Katsuya Nakayama	86
2	1978	Message from Space: Galactic Wars	Hayato	82
3	1980	Shadow Warriors		80
4	1980	Yagyu's Secret Quest	Matabei	0
5	1982	Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest	Matahira	100
6	1983	ふぞろいの林檎たち	本田修一	60
7	1984	Choudenshi Bioman	Ken Hayase	77
8	1987	Masamune Shogun		92
9	1988	Tokugawa Ieyasu		0
10	1988	New York Love Story		0
11	1989	Oda Nobunaga		0
12	1989	坂本龍馬		0
13	1991	Taiheiki	Takauji Ashikaga	0
14	1993	High School Teacher	Hamura Takao	90
15	1994	Furuhata Ninzaburo	由良一夫	89
16	1994	Why I borrowed money from her	Kunihiko Yamanobe	0
17	1996	Hideyoshi	Ishida Mitsunari	95
18	1997	Shin Hanshichi torimono chô	Hanshichi	0
19	1997	A Story of Love		0
20	1997	こんな恋のはなし		0
21	1998	Tabloid		0
22	2001	Unmarried Family	Yosuke Matoba	0
23	2004	Lost	Dogen	79
24	2011	Revenge	Satoshi Takeda	76
25	2014	Helix	Dr. Hiroshi Hataki	66
26	2014	The Last Ship	Takehaya	68
27	2014	Extant	Hideki Yasumoto	63
28	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	65
29	2016	Westworld	Musashi	80
30	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		63
31	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self	63
32	2021	Hawkeye	Akihiko (archive footage) (uncredited)	79
33	2024	Shōgun	Yoshii Toranaga	85