Takeshi Kaneshiro (Innate October 11, 1973) is a male actor and model. Of half-Japanese, half-Taiwanese ancestry, he was born and raised inside Taipei, Taiwan but now lives inside Japan. His mixed background induced problems for him, & he was bullied at school by his fellow students. He experienced problems concord, & felt prefer an outsider two at his Japanese school & around his Taiwanese front yard. For this cause he down the road moved to the Taipei American School. Takeshi was found by his schoolmate's mother at Taipei American School, who suggested he try modeling. Wanting to acquire a bike at a instance, however lacking the money, he entered entertainment industry. He was originally a portion of Taipei Western School's Class of 1991, however dropped call at 10th grade.

Takeshi Kaneshiro is easily-known for finding far-out & quirky roles, spanning through several genres. Although his exquisite dependable looks may easy own typecast him into swimming old-hat romanticist leads, Kaneshiro has deliberately chosen roles that defy facile categorization. Kaneshiro's extraordinary path to picture show stardom come early withinside his career when he was cast as a bereft police officer & as a damp little one-prefer young human, severally, in both of acclaimed director Wong Kar Wai's pic, "Chungking Express" & "Fallen Angels." Since that early run, Kaneshiro has mass produced more and more right film, including the wow Yakuza film noir "Sleepless Town," a magic-real metafictional narrative "Anna Magdalena," a coming-of-age story of immature love, discovered & misplaced, "Tempting Heart," & the additional commercial sci-fi "The Returner." A listing goes in. About each more film Kaneshiro has been inside occurs as genre of its have. Kaneshiro's star power--already unmistakably evident throughout Asithe--lit higher a american shores by using a lead in the wuxia narrative "House of Flying Daggers." His latest offering is, when may become potential from either the human world health organization seems to obviously dabble in any when numbers of genres as conceivable, the musical, "Perhaps Love," a number 1 musical comedy to are from either China around several decades. Kaneshiro's roles wash have a most common theme. Ironically, this fine beautiful huhuman, a man world health organization is pursued by fans through the world, systematically plays bereft & tortured characters--shy & quietly men world health organization never seem for the girl. Inside recent years Kaneshiro has been finding fewer & fewer motion picture roles, by having his output dwindling to 1 moving-picture show a year, & even less.

The bonThe fide international the-Names star, Takeshi exhibits a sale-subdued modus vivendi unlike virtually all popular stars. Known for his love of beast & for computer game, Kaneshiro defies each stereotypic expectatiin the single might develop astir a globe-famous superstar--especially 1 whose proficient looks come invariably referenced around most any article on him (this of these involved). Humble & gracious, Kaneshiro remains one of my further enigmatic stars--fiercely unobtainable & enticingly away from email.

Fluent within English, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese, he now stars around motion picture from either Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Filmography, as actor, includes

Perhaps Love (2005) House of Flying Daggers (2004) Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (2004) Turn Left, Turn Right (2003) Returner (2002) Onimusha (2001) Lavender (2000) Space Travelers (2000) Tempting Heart (1999) Misty (1998) Sleepless Town (1998) Anna Magdalena (1998) Too Tired to Die (1998) First Love: The Litter on the Breeze (1997) The Odd One Dies (1997) Downtown Torpedoes (1997) Ma Wing-Jing (1997) Dr. Wai and the Scripture Without Words (1996) Lost and Found (1996) The Feeling of Love (1996) Trouble Maker (1995) School Days (1995) China Dragon (1995) Fallen Angels (1995) - as He Zhiwu No Sir (1994) The Worth of Silence (1994) ''Don't Give a Damn (1994) Mermaid Got Married (1994) Chungking Express (1994) - as He Zhiwu, Bull 223 Heroic Trio 2: Executioners'' (1993)

Drama

Japanese

A Golden Bowl (2002) Love 2000 (2000) God, Give Maine A bit of Supplementary Instance (1998)

Taiwanese

A Miracle of Christmas Nighttime (1995) Grass Scholar (1992)

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