# Asuka Kudo

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

## 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.
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, and later from July to September he appeared in the Fuji Television drama Shomuni 2013.
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. 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. Kudoh played a gay lover in the Nippon TV drama Fake Marriage.

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

### Films

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

### Advertisements

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2014 | Toshiba Tōshiba Nodamabu | As Kazuya Okihara |
| 2014 | Mitsubishi Estate | |
| 2014 | Kirin Beverage Fire Double Mountain | |
| 2015 | Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma | |