Asuka Kudo

Asuka Kudo (工藤 阿須加, Kudō Asuka; born 1 August 1991 in Saitama Prefecture)^[1] is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Tokyo Gakkan High School and Tokyo University of Agriculture. He is represented by Papado.^[2]

Asuka Kudo
工藤 阿須加
Born	(1991-08-01) 1 August 1991 (age 34) Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Education	Tokyo Science Museum High School Tokyo University of Agriculture
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2012–present
Agent	Papado
Father	Kimiyasu Kudo

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.^[3]

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,^[4] and later from July to September he appeared in the Fuji Television drama Shomuni 2013.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7] Kudoh played a gay lover in the Nippon TV drama Fake Marriage.^[8][9]

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	Ref.
2013	Yae's Sakura	Yamamoto Saburō	Taiga drama	[10]
	Shomuni 2013	Hayami		[11]
2014	Roosevelt Game	Kazuya Okihara		[12]
	Natsu no Owari ni, Koi o Shita.	Shunpei Kozuka		[13][14]
2015	Risking It All: The Spirit of the Men in Orange	Takashi Yamakura		[15][16]
	The Eternal Zero	Takanori Takeda		[17][18]
	Fake Marriage	Tamotsu Deshimaru		[19][9]
2016	Here Comes Asa!	Keisuke Higashiyanagi	Asadora	[20]
	Your Home Is My Business!	Seiji Niwano		[21]
2019	Natsuzora: Natsu's Sky	Nobuya Sasaoka	Asadora	[22]
	Schöner, Ruhiger Garten	Ren Takana		[23]
2021	The Grand Family	Yoshihiko Ichinose		[24]
	Emergency Interrogation Room	Yoshiharu Yamagami	Season 4	[25]
2022	Uzukawamura Jiken	Tatsuki	Miniseries	[26]
2023	Burn the House Down	Kiichi Mitarai		[27]
2024	Golden Kamuy: The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido	Hajime Tsukishima		[28]

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2012	Lesson of the Evil	Hiroshi Matsumoto
2014	1/11: Jūichibun no Ichi	Kajiya Koshikawa
	My Little Nightmare: The Movie
	Momose, Kocchi o Muite.	Shun Miyazaki
	Close Range Love
2015	Again	Haruhiko Sakamichi (28 years ago)		[29][30]
2016	The Firefly Summers	Shingo		[31]
2017	To Each His Own	Takashi Aoyama		[32]
	A Loving Husband	Yohei (college years)
2021	First Gentleman	Kozan Shimazaki		[33]
	Shinonome-iro no Shūmatsu	Ryūnosuke Kamikawa		[34]
	Sing a Bit of Harmony	Tōma (voice)		[35]
2022	Anime Supremacy!	Shūhei Munemori		[36]
2024	Golden Kamuy	Hajime Tsukishima		[28]
2025	Climbing for Life	Masaaki Tabe (young)		[37]
TBA	Emergency Interrogation Room: The Final	Yoshiharu Yamagami		[25]
	Golden Kamuy: The Movie 2	Hajime Tsukishima		[38]

Advertisements

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2014	Toshiba Tōshiba Nodamabu	As Kazuya Okihara[a]	[39][40]
	Mitsubishi Estate
	Kirin Beverage Fire Double Mountain		[41]
2015	Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma		[42]

Notes

1. Collaboration advertisement with the drama Roosevelt Game.