Asuka Kudō

is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Tokyo Gakkan High School and Tokyo University of Agriculture. He is represented by Papado.

Biography

Kudo's father is professional baseball player and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks coach Kimiyasu Kudo, and his sister is professional golfer Haruka Kudo. He is the first and eldest child of five siblings. Kudo had played tennis himself, but had no experience on professional baseball.

His acting debut was the Nippon TV drama Perfect Son in 2012. In 2013, he appeared in the NHK Taiga drama Yae's Sakura as Yamamoto Yaeko's younger brother Yamamoto Saburō, and later from July to September he appeared in the Fuji Television drama Shomuni 2013.

He later played pitcher Kazuya Okihara in the Tokyo Broadcasting System Nichiyō Gekijō series Roosevelt Game in 2014. Kudo was chosen from the audition from about a hundred applicants, and played as the same position as his father. Later in the 24 May between the Saitama Seibu Lions and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in Seibu Prince Dome he wore the Seibu Lions uniform number 47, the same as his father's, and went to the ceremonial first pitch. Kudoh played a gay lover in the Nippon TV drama Fake Marriage.

Awards

24th Japanese Movie Critics Awards Newcomer Award for Best Actor (Toshiko Minami Award) (1/11: Jūichibun no Ichi, Momose, Kocchi o Muite.)

Filmography

TV drama

Year Title Role Notes 2013 Yae's Sakura Yamamoto Saburō Taiga drama Shomuni 2013 Hayami 2014 Roosevelt Game Kazuya Okihara Natsu no Owari ni, Koi o Shita. Shunpei Kozuka 2015 Risking It All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange Takashi Yamakura The Eternal Zero Takanori Takeda Fake Marriage Tamotsu Deshimaru Your Home Is My Business! Seiji Niwano 2019 Natsuzora: Natsu's Sky Nobuya Sasaoka Asadora Schöner, Ruhiger Garten Ren Takana 2021 The Grand Family Yoshihiko Ichinose Emergency Interrogation Room Yoshiharu Yamagami Season 4 2023 Burn the House Down Kiichi Mitarai 2024 Golden Kamuy: The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido Hajime Tsukishima 2026 Blossom Tatsuhiko Shimamura Asadora

Films

Year Title Role Notes 2012 Lesson of the Evil Hiroshi Matsumoto 2014 1/11: Jūichibun no Ichi Kajiya Koshikawa My Little Nightmare: The Movie My Pretend Girlfriend Shun Miyazaki Close Range Love 2015 Again Haruhiko Sakamichi (28 years ago) 2016 The Firefly Summers Shingo 2017 To Each His Own Takashi Aoyama A Loving Husband Yohei (college years) 2021 First Gentleman Kozan Shimazaki Shinonome-iro no Shūmatsu Ryūnosuke Kamikawa Sing a Bit of Harmony Tōma (voice) 2022 Anime Supremacy! Shūhei Munemori 2024 Golden Kamuy Hajime Tsukishima Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final Movie Yoshiharu Yamagami 2026 Golden Kamuy: The Abashiri Prison Raid Hajime Tsukishima Love Me Kill Me Akashi First Voice Takanori Komatsu

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