Asian actors appreciation thread

John Lone in Year of the Dragon.

Yoshi Sudarso

What happened to John Lone? He just stopped making movies in 2007.

Rick Yune. Sexy as fuck.

Unf. Yes. R4

The delicate, some say the flower like, Miyoshi Umeki.

R3 I think he just retired. When he was active, there were very few, if any, meaty Asian roles in Hollywood. So he left for China, shot some TV series and films there, but not as successful as expected. He has always been a private person after all, so he probably just quit the whole game and leads the life of a recluse now.

Tony Leung Chiu-wai has an intense masculine sensuality that smart directors have centered entire films around.

[quote] so he probably just quit the whole game and leads the life of a recluse now.

Just like the emperor.

Very cute exhibitionist Edison Chen.

Budding actor Ching Chang who was anally raped by Matt Lauer and is now writing a book about it.

Well, "Ching Chang" reminds me of a similarly named but much hotter actor called Chen Chang. He's slated to be in "Dune" with Timmy Chalamet.

Daniel Wu washing himself.

Remy Hii

Henry Golding is adorable.

Riverdale's Reggie, Charles Melton.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Eddie Peng's nude parkour.

Eddie Peng.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

They all have an appeal of bland tofu soup when they open their mouths. MEH!

Thanks for contributing, R21.

Ian Anthony Dale is part Japanese, do that count?

old school actor . . .

Yes, R23.

LOVE Nakadai, R24.

Hiroshi Abe, who is full-Asian but looks just as much Asian as R23.

Does that count, not do that count.

let me /faceslap myself.

As an apology here's Mark Dacascos.

Aaron Kwok.

Hu Ge

Sessue Hayakawa was very talented and was a sex symbol of silent movies. He commanded large salaries and had creative control of his productions. Later, he became a well respected character actor.

When I was fifteen years old, I saw my first samurai movie and was besotted with Toshiro Mifune, especially his upper thighs which were displayed in those costumes. I had never noticed mens' thighs since I'd only seen them on the beach and was not going to look there.

/elder frau

Russel Wong's infamous watermelon scene in Joy Luck Club.

Godfrey Gao, whom I believe is gay.

Haruma Miura

If you have sex with an Asian, are you horny again two later?

I would bend over for James Shigeta.

Fukushi Sota

More like Fuck-you-shi Sota, amirite?

John Cho

I always thought the Maze Runner and Kimmy Schmidt's Ki Hong Lee was adorable.

R8 Yes, Tony Leung is a great actor. He just oozes sexuality in "In the Mood for Love" and his chemistry with Leslie Cheung, the first Hong Kong star who came out, in "Happy Together" is almost palpable. They became very close friends in the rest of Leslie's life.

And the opening scene of the film is sizzling.

Yamada Ryosuke

B.D. Wong

Tim Kang....hottest thing on "The Mentalist" and the reboot of "Magnum".

I found this actor who had an uncredited cameo on Colbert (near the end of the clip). I did some search and I believe he's called Johnny Wu. It seems that he also appeared in The Good Wife, among others. I think he is really cute.

Mason Lee, Ang's son, who was in Billy Lynn. Not really my type but I guess someone would appreciate him.

47 posts in...and no mention of the OG?

Drool-worthy since his role as "Kato."

Also, the actor who played Lee in the 90s biopic, Jason Scott Lee.

Song Seung-heon.

Eric D. Steinberg.

R31 Yes to that throwback

I can't believe no one mentioned Takeshi Kaneshiro

Character actor Chung Assman.

Mickey Rooney

Christopher Sean.

Harry Shum Jr.

Alex Landi from Grey's Anatomy.

How can we have gone this long without Daniel Henney.

R59 That hobo thumbnail does him no justice. Here's a cuter one (from the linked page).

[quote][R59] That hobo thumbnail does him no justice. Here's a cuter one (from the linked page).

Yeah, that's not the thumbnail that showed before I clicked the post button.

This one was

Chan Tamlin getting ready for his big scene.

Chan has lovely tits.

Daniel Henney is gorgeous and 6'2"! Sigh.

Daniel K. Isaac

Leon Jay Williams.

Ethan Juan.

Ethan Juan with clothes on.

Ken Watanabe

Jake Choi

Zhu Yilong

Daniel K. Isaac is adorable. I want to put him in my pocket.

Hideo Muraoka

Does an Asia porn star count?

I've been watching this Taiwanese miniseries on HBO On Demand called The World Between Us, and there are quite a number of really good actors in the series, including James Wen

R75 I haven't watched that show but I know one of its stars, Chris Wu, is really cute.

Thanks for starting this thread, Connor. We knew you hadn't completely given yourself over to white meat.

Louis Koo.

Vivian Dawson

Rhydian Vaughan

Mark from saved by the bell is the only attractive one because he doesn't look full asian.

R81 Jeez, if you don't like asian men, no need to post here.

Manny Jacinto!!

Mark Chao.

Andy Lau

Manny Jacinto!

Daniel Isaac from "Billions".

"Sexually fluid" Jake Choi.

R88 Which way is his fluid running today?

Jake Choi.

Tim Kano

Louis Koo again. I love his look here.

I loved Jake Choi in "Front Cover."

Jake is a regular on "Single Parents."

Dennis Oh

Rick Yune's younger brother, Karl

Matt McCooey

He's a self-confessed "big Taylor Swift fan". 'Nuff said there.

WTF no mention of Jackie Chan? He's gonna kung fu all your asses!

whatever happened to takeshi kaneshiro? Did he get married? any gay rumors?

He was so hot a decade or two ago.

Bruce Lee

Lewis Tan. only half asian. does it count? He's in Wu Assassins on Netflix and Into the Badlands on amc

A lot of people on this thread are only part asian.

Dean Cain

We seem to be limiting ourselves to EAST Asians.

Dave Bautista.

Keanu Reeves.

Shirotan!

He's been trying to break Broadway, you know.

Garrett Clayton, Lebanese

Lebanon is not in Asia.

Yes, it is, r109. Learn geography, idiot.

Siddharth Malhotra

R99 Takeshi Kaneshiro is a virtual recluse. He divides his spare time between Japan and Taiwan, and now works mostly in China. He's rarely given interviews throughout his career and never talked about his private life. His sexuality has been speculated since the day one, but he's also said to have had some girlfriends, including Judy Lin, who was his stylist when he was a commercial model. Charlie Yeung, who was in Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time, is said to have chosen Nicky Wu over Takeshi in a love triangle. He's also rumored in recent years to have secretly married, as what Andy at R85 did back then. None of the relationships has ever been confirmed.

Here's a CNN interview with Takeshi, one of his very few interviews you can find on the Internet.

Aaron Yan.

Harry Yuan, son of Cheng Pei-pei (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). He's also a travel show host for National Geographic.

Someone upthread made a comment about Hiroshi Abe's looks perhaps being a bit incongruous with his fully Asian ancestry. He's Japanese, but with Ainu ancestry. The Ainu have different characteristics than the Japanese people descended from the Chinese.

The idiot who thinks Lebanon isn't in Asia is the one needing a geography lesson.

Lebanon is middle east.

If you want to post about Lebanon actors, open your own middle east/arab thread. Same for russian actors.

This thread is obviously for east asia actors.

[quote]This thread is obviously for east asia actors.

The OP's post doesn't say that - and even if he did, since when does DL abide by rules.

[quote]Lebanon is middle east.

Middle east isn't a continent.

R117 Look at all the actors above, all east asian, all asian race or mixed.

Who cares of Middle-East is not a continent, it's still a geographical place.

If you want to post about other actors, you're free but not here.

Geography Fight! Geography Fight!

Parry Shen

R120 That looks like Sam Rockwell's Asian cousin.

R118 = Amy Chua

r109=Miss Teen South Carolina

R123 I love you, adore you, want to marry you, such as.

Anna May Wong was the go-to Asian actress of her time.

Dustin Nguyen

Takumi Saito(h), who is also an international model (he recently worked for LV & Yohji) & photographer.

He got a humble start as a College kid playing in goofy teen comedies like PRINCESS PRINCESS, and also in gay-interest exploitation films such as the erotic tragic drama BOYS LOVE. Now incredibly he's becoming a staple in festival-bait global art-film, though he still appears from time to time in offbeat commerical TV series.

Evan Ghang

I'm filming a role in a big budget Korean movie next year starring Ha Jung Woo, who is apparently the Tom Cruise of Korea. I haven't followed Korean cinema but has anyone heard of him? Son Ye Jin is the female lead, and pop star Im Shi Wan is the other male lead.

I'm going to get lots of pictures and see if I can get on the K-POP site with them!

R129 I think I know which movie you're talking about, and yes, Ha Jung Woo is definitely a big name in Asia! He was stunning in Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden," the Korean adaptation of "Fingersmith."

And he deserves an ass pic here.

For consideration in the obscure/retired/WHET tier: Vancouver's own Justin Wong, former child actor who famously played Olympic figure-skater Ken Wu in the Disney MIGHTY DUCKS franchise and a role in the cult tv series of the late '90s MILLENNIUM with Lance Henriksen. He also did a huge Blockbuster x NFL commercial in the early '90s for which footage seems to have disappeared.

Like most Asians playing in ensemble American films, Justin always played a nationality other than his own Chinese ethnicity - for example, Kenny of the Mighty Ducks Junior team is written a Korean-American character (Justin was the only kid they auditioned).

He has a refreshingly gentle and sensible success story for a former child actor, maybe down to his Asian family keeping him grounded. He used his Disney money for a College fund, and after studying in England he became a sound engineer with his own studio doing well for himself. He voluntarily left acting in College saying he had no real passion for it compared to his love of audio tech work, and true to his word he hasn't acted on screen or stage since 1998 and hasn't worked on a movie project in any capacity since 2005. He has stuck with casual hockey playing & viewing, however, thanks to the DUCKS movies and to his stint in peewee leagues as a kid. According to a recent podcast interview, he is never recognised except at Disney events or NHL games where fans still quack or chant at him.

Kit Thompson

There used to be a really popular Asian actor named Takeshi Kaneshiro that I thought was cute, but I recently googled him and couldn’t find anything from recent years.

From 2017 r133

Have you all forgotten about Daniel Dae Kim? he is a natural-looking Korean, probable because of his age (51) and that he was raised in the U.S.

I watched the K-miniseries, Empress Ki. A few exquisite actors in the series, especially Joo Jin-mo. I like him because he is an older actor, born in 1974.

Ji Chang Wook might be a pretty boy, but he is an outstanding actor. He took time off from acting to do his 2 years old military service.

Sad that no one here has mentioned Mako (Makoto Iwamatsu), Tony and Academy Award-nominated actor who was one of the first Asian actors to be recognized in American film. One of the co-founders of East-West Players, a Los Angeles-based theatre company dedicated to supporting the work of Asian-American writers and performers. He broke color barriers and fought yellow-face for decades, opening doors for most of the actors posted here.

He was a class act.

Godfrey Gao RIP

soooooooooooo handsome

R32, Toshiro Mifune was very handsome when he was young. And look at those muscular arms!

Rentarō Mikuni wasn't handsome but was a fine life long actor.

Another Toshiro Mifune, this time looking impossibly debonair.

Gurl....

R107 it’s his 34th birthday tomorrow, he was a Christmas baby.

He still looks super young for his age, which I guess is an advantage of being mixed-race Asian.

^more Yu-kun, shirtless for appraisal

[quote]Another Toshiro Mifune, this time looking impossibly debonair

Wow, he is! he looks so similar to Gregory peck.

R138. I agree about Mako. He was a legend. I'm an elderfrau and he was all over TV in the 1960s and 1970s, and his presence and talent would elevate whatever he appeared in. He was in an episode of The Time Tunnel where he gave an astonishing performance in an otherwise mediocre series.

[quote]Hideo Muraoka

Whoa! Where did this guy come from? He is gorgeous!

R133 See R112

And Takeshi‘s only major work this year is a tea commercial.

Takeshi didn't age too well, unfortunately. Well, he still looks great for a man in his mid-40s, but he was gorgeous when he was younger.

The same is true for Hideaki Takizawa as well, who was really cute at his peak (for me, as Yoshitsune in the NHK Taiga series). He has been the vice president of Johnny & Associates since this year, so he successfully transitioned to a career behind the stage/screen.

Arifin Putra

Park Sung-woong

Piolo Pascual

Ryuhei Matsuda, a legacy actor (he’s the son of the late actor Yūsaku who played Sato in Ridley Scott’s BLACK RAIN) who has played several gay & homoromantic roles since his adolescence in the ‘90s.

His starmaking role was as the alluring Shinsengumi youth in 1999’s GOHATTO (eng. TABOO), a gay-interest romantic period-drama by Nagisa Ōshima, a part he performed at just 15 years old after dropping out of high-school. This garnered Ryuhei numerous ‘Best Actor/Newcomer’ awards, and the film almost netted a ‘Best Film’ at Cannes 2000 (narrowly losing out to DANCER IN THE DARK); however Ryuhei’s young age at the time of filming and the insinuations of gay sex between historical figures in the movie caused a stir.

A few years later Ryuhei took the lead in an experimental homoerotic crime-drama from 2006 titled 46-OKUNEN NO KOI (eng. A 4.6-BILLION YEAR LOVE, aka BIG BANG LOVE) by the dark eccentric controversial filmmaker Takashi Miike. The role saw Ryuhei tackling the issues of Male rape and Male-Male relationships in prison environments in a very sadistic & unsettling way (a hallmark of Miike’s work). Again this provoked many resultant whisperings about the actor’s true sexuality.

The dramas Ryuhei stars in these days are less violent and potently eroticised, but still suggest a leaning toward gay or homoromantic themes. Next year his drama EIRI (eng. THE BACK OF SHADOW, trailer in the link below) will air, and it looks to focus on a Male love albeit a chaste tragic one.

I don’t believe the actor is gay, however, given he had a longterm relationship with a female Russian model and has a child with her (though they’re divorced now). I imagine like most pretty Japanese Male actors he’s bi/flexible for roles or for co-stars he has chemistry with, but straight in his life outside of work to please his family.

Chicago Med’s Brian Tee.

Has Kenneth Choi been mentioned yet?

He was in SoA, currently in 9-1-1. Been in lots of movies etc.

I agree, Takashi hasn't aged well for an Asian. Esp when you compare him to Andy Lau, and other top actors. Damn, they are ageless. I wonder what their secret is. They probably work out a lot. Takashi looks like he doesn't exercise at all.

[quote] If you want to post about Lebanon actors, open your own middle east/arab thread.

I don’t see anything wrong. Why I love Miss Ellen DeGeneres!

Out actor Leonardo Nam from Westworld.

Hayden Szeto of Edge of Seventeen.

Timothy Granaderos

Ian Anthony Dale

Tae-hyung Kim (or V of BTS) on the far right in Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth

Takeshi Kaneshiro in his prime in House of Flying Daggers

Wow there are some absolute stunners in this thread, so many beautiful men

But the clip R13 posted takes the cake, so erotic

Devon Kell.

Jack Soo

Pat Morita

Oh Seung-hoon

Domo arigato Mr Roboto.

Daniel Henney is looking pretty good these days.

Clint Bondad

R164 Takeshi Kaneshiro was so dreamy and so beautiful when he was young. ❤️

He's Asian-American and hot as hell. Conrad Ricamora gets my endorsement.

Tora Sudiro

Derrick Monasterio

Fuck you bitches!

Kit Thompson

Yoshida Munehrio

Daddy.

How about some love for handsome Asian stage actors?

DL fave Telly Leung

Another stage actor, Jose Llana

Sexy Canadian, Simu Lui

Vincent Rodriguez. Short, but doable.

I agree R184. And Vincent Rodriguez III is family

Jose Llana and Conrad Ricamora are family, too.