SINGAPORE – He is the quintessential Japanese actor who has cornered Hollywood’s market playing feudal warlords or modern-day crime bosses, gaining global recognition in the process.
He used a Japanese crew and cast Japanese actors. The sets were painstakingly recreated in Vancouver, Canada, to look like 17th-century Japan. Each kimono and other costumes were handmade based on traditional clothes imported from Japan. The veteran thespian is simply protective of how Japanese culture should be portrayed on-screen, and has taken it upon himself to dedicate his career to ensuring such authenticity is achieved.Hiroyuki Sanada as ferocious warrior Ujio in The Last Samurai . PHOTO: WARNER BROSTrained in kendo – a Japanese style of sword fighting – from a young age, Sanada fit the bill to play the formidable and ferocious warrior Ujio, who schooled Cruise in the way of the samurai.
He might have been the antagonist and was up against Hong Kong action titan Jackie Chan, but Sanada stole the thunder with his nifty action moves and superb use of the katana.Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Shingen Yashida in The Wolverine . PHOTO: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX The film had an epic sword fight between Japanese steel and Wolverine’s lethal adamantium claws, as one would expect from a comic-book movie that was set in Tokyo.Hiroyuki Sanada is the leader of the ronin in 47 Ronin . PHOTO: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
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