All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Tadanobu Asano, ranked

Taking place in the 17th century, the story centers on John Blackthorne, a sailor who ascends from being an outsider to becoming a samurai. Throughout this journey, he becomes a pawn in the power struggle orchestrated by Japanese leader Toranaga, who seeks to ascend to the pinnacle of the ruling chain, known as Shogun.

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities. The story is set in motion when Aileen Mioko, Eugene’s wife encourages hime to take photos in Minamata, saying: ‘There’s a company in Japan that’s been dumping the toxic waste into the sea. We need you.’

The film begins with a prologue where the veteran Portuguese Jesuit priest Cristóvão Ferreira witnesses the torture of Japanese converts he has been trying to bring to the Christian faith. A few years later, at St. Paul’s College, Macau, an Italian Jesuit priest, Alessandro Valignano, receives news that Ferreira renounced his faith in Japan after being tortured.

In 1950s Tokyo, Tamotsu is suspected of killing Shizuka Harada, his actress wife. He runs away to Taiwan and kills himself. Private investigator Banji Masuzawa, a friend of Tamotsu, has questions about Tamotsu’s passing, but prominent media tycoon Heizo Harada conceals the facts. After that, Banji becomes entangled in a different case involving the Harada family’s neighbors.

Eons ago, Bor, father of Odin, clashes with the Dark Elf Malekith, who seeks to unleash a weapon known as the Aether on the nine realms. After conquering Malekith’s forces, including enhanced warriors called the Kursed, on their home world of Svartalfheim, Bor safeguards the Aether within a stone column. Unknown to Bor, Malekith, his lieutenant Algrim and a handful of Dark Elves escape into suspended animation.

Eons ago, Bor, father of Odin, clashes with the Dark Elf Malekith, who seeks to unleash a weapon known as the Aether on the nine realms. After conquering Malekith’s forces, including enhanced warriors called the Kursed, on their home world of Svartalfheim, Bor safeguards the Aether within a stone column. Unknown to Bor, Malekith, his lieutenant Algrim and a handful of Dark Elves escape into suspended animation.

On the 13th of July 1907, a government survey party reached the summit of Tsurugi, a mountain as sharp-edged and rugged as its name suggests. It turned out that they were not the first to visit what they had assumed to be an untrodden peak. In fact, the mountain had been climbed long before, as the surveyors realised when they discovered on the summit a spearhead and the tip of a priest’s staff that proved to be centuries old.

In 2005, a planet designated Planet G is discovered to be a potentially habitable planet with conditions similar to Earth and a communications array is built by NASA in Hawaii a year later, designed to send transmissions to the planet to establish contact with any intelligent life.

A man forsakes his identity, opting instead to roam the streets of Tokyo with a sizable cardboard box covering his head. Along his journey, he encounters a diverse array of characters, each interaction revealing a new facet of the bustling city’s tapestry.