Takeshi Kaneshiro is one of my favorite actors. He is popular in the US for the wu xia movie House of Flying Daggers released in 2004. Takeshi plays Jin a police captain in the Tang Dynasty who is caught in a love triangle.
I first saw him in the 1995 film Fallen Angels. Takeshi plays a mute who breaks into businesses and runs them for fun. His character is not a main character and the plot is also a side plot but it stands out as the best in the movie.
In recent years he has starred in the films, The Warlords and The Battle for Red Cliff (parts I and II). In the Battle for Red Cliff Takeshi excellently played Zhuge Liang one of the most accomplished military strategist during the three kingdoms era. His acting along side Tony Leung was phenomenal.
Takeshi’s current film is Wu Xia which also stars the great Donnie Yen (why he has not been recognized as the greatest action star of his time is beyond me is a mystery but, I will save this for another post). It also re-teamed Takeshi with director Peter Chen.
I think the thing I like the most about Mr. Kaneshiro is that amazing gaze. He always looks like he is seeing right down to your soul that he knows you and he knows what your thinking.
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