Hiroyuki Sanada Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Hiroyuki Sanada filmography covers 40 movie titles and 10 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Hiroyuki Sanada movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• The Executioner (1974) as Ryuichi Koga (child)
• Message from Space (1978) as Shiro Hongo
• Shogun's Samurai (1978) as Hayate
• G.I. Samurai (1979) as Takeda Katsuyori
• Shogun's Ninja (1980) as Momochi Takamaru
• Samurai Reincarnation (1981) as Kirimaru Iga
• Fall Guy (1982) as Actor
• Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982) as Genbu
• Ninja Wars (1982) as Jotaro Fuefuki
• Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983) as Inue Shinbei Masashi
• The Dagger of Kamui (1985) as Jirô
• Royal Warriors (1986) as Peter Yamamoto
• Ring (1998) as Ryuji Takayama
• The Spiral (1998) as Ryûji Takayama
• Ring 2 (1999) as Ryuji Takayama
• Onmyoji (2001) as Dōson
• The Twilight Samurai (2002) as Seibei Iguchi
• The Last Samurai (2003) as Ujio
• The Promise (2005) as General Guangming
• The White Countess (2005) as Matsuda
• Rush Hour 3 (2007) as Kenji
• Sunshine (2007) as Kaneda
• Speed Racer (2008) as Mr. Musha
• The City of Your Final Destination (2009) as Pete
• 47 Ronin (2013) as Kuranosuke Ôishi
• The Railway Man (2013) as Nagase
• The Wolverine (2013) as Shingen Harada / Lord Shingen
• The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin (2013) as Self
• Minions (2015) as Sumo (voice)
• Mr. Holmes (2015) as Tamiki Umezaki
• Life (2017) as Sho Murakami
• The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) as Kawabata
• Avengers: Endgame (2019) as Akihiko
• Minamata (2020) as Mitsuo Yamazaki
• Army of the Dead (2021) as Bly Tanaka
• Mortal Kombat (2021) as Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion
• Bullet Train (2022) as The Elder
• Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye (2022) as Akihiko (archive footage)
• John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) as Shimazu
• Mortal Kombat II (2026) as Hanzo Hasashi / Scorpion

Hiroyuki Sanada television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Hiroyuki Sanada; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Extant as Hideki Yasumoto
• Furuhata Ninzaburo as 由良一夫
• Hawkeye as Akihiko (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Helix as Dr. Hiroshi Hataki
• Lost as Dogen
• Message from Space: Galactic Wars as Hayato
• Revenge as Satoshi Takeda
• Shōgun as Yoshii Toranaga
• The Last Ship as Takehaya
• Westworld as Musashi

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Hiroyuki Sanada's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.