is a Japanese actor. He graduated from Tokyo Gakkan High School and

Tokyo University of Agriculture The , abbreviated as Nodai (農大, ''nōdai'') or Tokyo nodai (東京農大, ''Tōkyō nōdai''), is a private university of agriculture in Japan. There are three campuses: Setagaya, Atsugi, and Okhotsk (Abashiri). Outline Tokyo University ...

. He is represented by Papado.

Biography

Kudo's father is

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player and

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coach Kimiyasu Kudo, and his sister is

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Haruka Kudo. He is the first and eldest child of five siblings. Kudo had played

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himself, but had no experience on professional baseball. His acting debut was the

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drama ''

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'' in 2012. In 2013, he appeared in the NHK Taiga drama ''

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'' as

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's younger brother Yamamoto Saburō, and later from July to September he appeared in the

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drama ''Shomuni 2013''. He later played

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Kazuya Okihara in the

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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 The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Seibu Railway, wh ...

and the

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he wore the Seibu Lions uniform number 47, the same as his father's, and went to the

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. Kudoh played a

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lover in the Nippon TV drama ''Fake Marriage''.

Awards

* 24th

Japanese Movie Critics Awards are presented annually since 1991. As with the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the selection committee consists of film critics. Award winners 1990s 1991 (1st Japanese Movie Critics Award ...

Newcomer Award for Best Actor (Toshiko Minami Award) (''1/11: Jūichibun no Ichi'', ''Momose, Kocchi o Muite.'')

Filmography

TV drama

Films

Notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kudo, Asuka 21st-century Japanese male actors Tokyo University of Agriculture alumni Actors from Saitama Prefecture 1991 births Living people