Soda!, Tadanobu Asano’s crazy ass punk band
One of the best living actors in Japan right now is Tadanobu Asano. If he would have been European, he would have already been cast as a James Bond villain or something and made a respectable Hollywood career.
You may know him from the Thor movies, as one of the Asgardians, Thor’s pal Hogun, and he played a small part in Martin Scorsese’s Silence too. But if you have a chance to see him in a Japanese movie, don’t miss it.
Anyway, Asano, which is his stage name, sings in a band, Soda!, a kind of a fun punk rock band consisting of four middle aged men which, to my surprise I must admit, is pretty good. You can hear their new album Beat! on Spotify.
There is plenty of live footage of Soda! to be found on YouTube, most of it is shit, because recorded with iPhones or something, but they made one proper video two years ago, the one above, starring Asano as a 45 year old hyperactive teenager in a suit. (PB)





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