How this for an unlikely trajectory: in your late teens, become a Japanese action star, and then, in your late forties, transition into English-language dramas. That’s how it’s happened for Hiroyuki Sanada, who got his start in Sonny Chiba’s action club in Japan but crossed over to Western films with an appearance in 2003’s The Last Samurai . Since then, Sanada’s worked almost exclusively on American productions, and though he has a few big-budget films under his belt, he’s also appeared on Lost (as this season’s temple master, Dogen) and in two films directed by James Ivory, The White Countess and this week’s The City of Your Final Destination , where he plays the younger lover to Anthony Hopkins. Sanada called up Movieline last week to chat about the film, what it was like to curl up naked next to the man who played Hannibal Lecter, and the bait-and-switch that happened when Lost producers asked him to join the cast.
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Hiroyuki Sanada on Nude Scenes, Lost, and The City of Your Final Destination
