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Yasuke

Yasuke

Netflix 2021

In a war-torn feudal Japan filled with mechs and magic, the greatest ronin never known, Yasuke, struggles to maintain a peaceful existence after a past life of violence. But when a local village becomes the center of social upheaval between warring daimyo, Yasuke must take up his sword and transport a mysterious child who is the target of dark forces and bloodthirsty warlords.
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The Top 10 Actors and Characters of Yasuke (Ranked Cast in 2024)

Darren Criss

#1 - Darren Criss (Andrew Cunanan)

arren Everett Criss (born February 5, 1987) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He rose to fame starring on the television series Glee (2010–2015) and received Emmy and Golden Globe acting awards for his leading role as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018). He has also appeared on Broadway and in film and has released several musical albums. A founding member and co-owner of StarKid Productions, a musical theater company based in Chicago, Criss first garnered attention playing the lead role of Harry Potter in, and writing most of the music and lyrics for, StarKid's musical production of A Very Potter Musical. Criss has also starred on Broadway as a replacement in both How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. In 2015, Criss co-founded Elsie Fest which is touted as "New York City's first outdoor music festival celebrating tunes from the stage and screen".

Darren Criss plays as Andrew Cunanan in Yasuke.
Darren Criss is the top #1 member of the cast and appears in 9 episodes.

Lakeith Stanfield

#2 - Lakeith Stanfield (Yasuke (voice))

Lakeith Lee "Keith" Stanfield (born August 12, 1991) is an American actor and rapper. He made his feature film debut in Short Term 12 (2013), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In 2014, he co-starred in the horror film The Purge: Anarchy and in the Martin Luther King biopic Selma, as civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. Stanfield appeared in the film Dope (2015). He played rapper Snoop Dogg in the biopic about the hip-hop group N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton (2015), and will appear in the upcoming Oliver Stone biopic Snowden (2015). Stanfield was born in San Bernardino, California, and grew up in Riverside and Victorville, California. He has said that he "grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides". He decided to become an actor when he was 14 years old when he joined his high school's drama club. He attended the John Casablancas Modeling and Career Center in Los Angeles, where he was signed by an agency manager and began to audition for commercials. Stanfield's first role was in the short film Short Term 12 (2009), which was filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton's thesis project at San Diego State University, and won the Jury Award for U.S. Short Filmmaking at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. A year later, he appeared in the short film Gimme Grace (2010), before he gave up acting for several years. He went on to work a number of different jobs—roof work, gardening, at AT&T, and at a legal marijuana factory—before he was contacted by Cretton to reappear in a feature-length adaptation of Short Term 12, his first feature film. For the duration of the film's production, Stanfield practiced method acting, distancing himself from the other cast members like his character, Marcus. He was the only actor to appear in both the short and feature films. Short Term 12 won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the 2013 South by Southwest film festival, and Stanfield was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. The film featured "Vicious", a rap song co-written with Milgaten, and "So You Know What It's Like", a rap song co-written with Cretton, which a number of Oscar pundits predicted would be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, although it did not ultimately receive a nomination. In 2014, Stanfield co-starred in The Purge: Anarchy and Selma, in the latter playing civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson. He is set to appear in James Franco's upcoming film Memoria and in Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead. Stanfield will also star in the fantasy horror thriller film King Ripple, by the Michigan filmmaker Luke Jaden, and the music video for the Run the Jewels song "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)". In 2015, he portrayed rapper Snoop Dogg in the biopic Straight Outta Compton. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keith Stanfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Lakeith Stanfield plays as Yasuke (voice) in Yasuke.
Lakeith Stanfield is the top #2 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Takehiro Hira

#3 - Takehiro Hira (Oda Nobunaga (voice))

Takehiro Hira (平 岳大 Hira, Takehiro, born July 27, 1974) is a Japanese theatre, film, and television actor. He was born in Japan and raised there until he was 15 years old. He went to high school in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, and then attended Brown University. Prior to becoming an actor, he held a few different kinds of jobs including care provider for autistic children, financial analyst, project manager at an internet start-up and tempura chief at a Japanese restaurant

Takehiro Hira plays as Oda Nobunaga (voice) in Yasuke.
Takehiro Hira is the top #3 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Julie Marcus

#4 - Julie Marcus (Nikita (voice))

Julie Marcus plays as Nikita (voice) in Yasuke.
Julie Marcus is the top #4 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Maya Tanida

#5 - Maya Tanida (Saki (voice))

Maya Tanida plays as Saki (voice) in Yasuke.
Maya Tanida is the top #5 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Noshir Dalal

#6 - Noshir Dalal (Mitsuhide (voice))

Noshir Dalal plays as Mitsuhide (voice) in Yasuke.
Noshir Dalal is the top #6 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Dia Frampton

#7 - Dia Frampton (Ishikawa (voice))

Dia Frampton plays as Ishikawa (voice) in Yasuke.
Dia Frampton is the top #7 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Paul Nakauchi

#8 - Paul Nakauchi (Morisuke (voice))

Paul Nakauchi plays as Morisuke (voice) in Yasuke.
Paul Nakauchi is the top #8 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

William-Christopher Stephens

#9 - William-Christopher Stephens (Achoja (voice))

William-Christopher Stephens plays as Achoja (voice) in Yasuke.
William-Christopher Stephens is the top #9 member of the cast and appears in 6 episodes.

Ming-Na Wen

#10 - Ming-Na Wen (Fennec Shand)

Ming-Na (born November 20, 1963) is a Macanese-born American actress. She is known for her roles in the Mulan films and Kingdom Hearts video game series as well as ER. She was a regular on As the World Turns, Vanished, and The Batman. Besides television she is notable for starring in films such as The Joy Luck Club and Street Fighter.

Ming-Na Wen plays as Fennec Shand in Yasuke.
Ming-Na Wen is the top #10 member of the cast and appears in 4 episodes.

Last updated: oct 26, 2022

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