Twitch-O-Meter: Tadanobu Asano is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille!

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1. The Visualist 02/05/2008 @ 5:04pm

   Zatoichi
   Electric Dragon 80,000V
   The Taste of Tea
   Distance (?)
   Survive Style 5+

   You’ve got me stumped on that 4th one.

2. Ard Vijn 02/05/2008 @ 5:06pm

   Oooh!
   Four out of five…

3. The Visualist 02/05/2008 @ 5:22pm

   I’ll leave the last one to someone else since I’ll just be throwing out random guesses! The gunky window is throwing me for a loop. I might have a better idea if I could see his hair.

4. Raku 02/05/2008 @ 5:22pm

   I’m stumped on the 4th like the visualist arrrgh please someone get it or that is going to annoy me until Friday

5. Ard Vijn 02/05/2008 @ 5:45pm

   His hair is slicked back in the 4th (well, not this specific screenshot, but in general). And he has sideburns…

   Heh, I was hesitating between using this movie or “Last Life in the Universe”. Seems I chose wisely.

   Good luck!

6. BlackIrishBastard 02/05/2008 @ 5:58pm

   Sharkskin Man and Peachhip Girl?

7. Geert Jan 02/05/2008 @ 7:07pm

   Yeah I was thinking Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl for the 4th one as well.

8. Raku 02/05/2008 @ 7:37pm

   Sharkskin man and peach hip girl seems like it fits, Most likely its taken from a scene in the car with susumu terajima in the passenger seat.

9. crazybee 02/05/2008 @ 8:04pm

   I don’t think the 4th image is from SSM, but I don’t know.  It’s the only image amongst the 5 that isn’t immediately recognizable to me.

10. deedee 02/05/2008 @ 8:32pm

    okay, without looking at the other comments:

    1)zatoichi
    2)electric dragon 80000v
    3)taste of tea
    4)sharkskin man
    5)survive style 5

    and now i’m going to look at the other comments…

    dd

11. deedee 02/05/2008 @ 8:35pm

    hmm - not so bad.

    btw, please feel sorry for me.  i couldn’t get away to drive to dc to see last life plus asano in person last saturday.  i’m not going to get over it for a while…

    dd

12. Ard Vijn 02/06/2008 @ 1:19am

    Sorry guys,
    I had to sleep for a few hours. Nice to see such a turn-up!

    The 4th shot is indeed “Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl”.
    BlackIrishBastard was first, Raku has the scene right, and kudo’s to deedee if he/she ain’t lying!

    

    Again this was solved really quickly! To be honest I thought the “Taste of tea” shot wasn’t that obvious but I was ‘obviously’ wrong.

13. wisekwai 02/06/2008 @ 2:27am

    I got Zatoichi and Sharkskin Man, which aside from Invisible Waves and Last Life (and Ichi), are the only Asano films I’ve seen. I want to watch more.

14. crazybee 02/06/2008 @ 5:42am

    His whole body of work is worth exploring.

    And I can’t believe I didn’t recognize that image as being from SSM!  That’s one of my favorite movies!

15. GAPS 02/06/2008 @ 6:12am

    Got all those same ones Visualist got (except, you weren’t entirely incorrect, Aardvark - I was tossing up between Taste of Tea and Bird People of China).
    Was stumped on that fourth one like everyone else - and no wonder! I saw SSM before I knew who he was - before I saw Ichi - and can’t correlate his image into my memory of the film, even though I now know better. Time to see it again.
    From the image quality, I actually thought 4 might have been from one of his earlier slightly lesser known ones. Labyrinth of Dreams or Fried Dragon Fish or something.
    But I guess you don’t want to pull too many fast ones!

16. deedee 02/06/2008 @ 6:37am

    no, i wasn’t lying - asano is on my short list of fave actors in the world, and i’ve seen many of his movies (but not most - they’re kind of hard to find.) it was kind of easy because he looks so different in each of his movies. 

    i got taste of tea because of the pillow and the shirt - just watched it (finally!) this weekend.  i got sharkskin man because of that smirk.

    and i am a she, btw.  maybe that made it easier.

    dd

17. BlackIrishBastard 02/06/2008 @ 10:08am

    Ahh this post has been perfect for me.

    I really enjoyed him in SSM (that is one of my favorite movies). He was great in Ichi, but haven’t really had a good base to go off from since then.

    Now I do, thanks.

18. chjdc 02/06/2008 @ 10:26am

    Agree with DeeDee’s assessment. I did get to see Tadanobu Asano last Saturday at the Freer Gallery when he introduced Last Life in the Universe and at the Q&A;session following (sorry DD).  The film was obviously a well-used copy - but it worked well the the cinematography.  It was a fairly small theater and he was just as self-deprecating, funny, cool (and, yes, good-looking) as you would imagine.  He patiently answered all questions, provided some anecdotes about working in various locals and with different directors and stuck around to sign-stuff, etc.

19. deedee 02/06/2008 @ 10:51am

    thanks for the recap, chg.  now i really, *really* wish i’d been there. 

    one question:  was it crowded?  i had nightmares (literally) of driving 5 hours and there being no tickets left.  if it was packed then that makes me feel a little better about missing it.  i swear, at 8:45am last saturday i was still toying with the idea of shirking all my responsibilities and heading up to dc…

    sigh.

    dd

20. The Visualist 02/06/2008 @ 11:06am

    Good call on SSM people! I thought it might be initially, but I couldn’t be sure. He has this kind look in that still but his character is such an arrogant ass in that film! Ard was right about his preternatural ability to emote with little to no facial augmentation. It’s all in the eyes (notice the eyelids in each shot).

21. chjdc 02/06/2008 @ 3:30pm

    In reply to DD - I was worried about the crowd too, so I slogged down there two hours before tickets were released (3 b/f movie).  The line wasn’t bad and, unless you arrived pretty late, you got in with no problems.  It was a full-house -barely.  Either the word didn’t get out to the fans - or there aren’t enough fans in DC (which I find hard to believe). I doubt that makes you feel better - but maybe increases your chances of being able to make the next ‘happening’ in DC.  Hope to see you next time - and really hope there is a next time. C.

22. deedee 02/06/2008 @ 3:52pm

    dear c-

    argh.

    thanks, and see you next time.

    dd

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