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Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe (渡辺 謙, Watanabe Ken, born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsu in The Last Samurai, for...
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Batman Begins
Batman Begins is a 2005 action film based on the fictional DC Comics character Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Christian Bale as Batman, along with Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman...
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released...
Tampopo
Tampopo (タンポポ, Tanpopo, literally "dandelion") is a 1985 Japanese comedy film by director Juzo Itami, starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first noodle western, a play on the term...
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a 2003 American drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay based on a story by John Logan.
The film was inspired by a project developed by writer and director Vincent Ward. Ward became...
MacArthur's Children
MacArthur's Children (瀬戸内少年野球団, Setouchi Shōnen Yakyū-dan) is a popular and influential 1984 Japanese motion picture. Describing the impact of the United States' occupation of Japan from the perspective of the inhabitants of a small, rural island...
Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Mitani Koki. It was extremely popular in Japan upon its release and won 17 Japanese Academy Award for Best Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Actor (Karasawa Toshiaki), Best Actress (Suzuki Kyoka), Best Supporting Actor...
Memories of tomorrow
Ashita no Kioku/Memories of Tomorrow (明日の記憶, Ashita no Kioku) is a 2006 Japanese drama film starring Ken Watanabe, Higuchi Kanako and directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi. The film is based on a novel of the same title published by Hiroshi Ogiwara in 2004....
Letters from Iwo Jima
Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iō Jima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 war film, directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese...
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is the 2009 film adaptation of the first three books of the book series The Saga of Darren Shan by author Darren Shan. The film began principal photography on February 8, 2008 in New Orleans and ended on June...
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Shinjuku Incident
Shinjuku Incident (traditional Chinese: 新宿事件, Japanese: 新宿インシデント) is a 2009 crime/drama film starring Jackie Chan and directed by Derek Yee. The film was produced by Chan's own film company, JCE Movies Limited.
It was stated in many press reports...
Shanghai
Shanghai is an upcoming drama-mystery-thriller film directed by Mikael Håfström and starring John Cusack and Gong Li. The film has been delayed several times, now facing an April 2010 release.
In the months leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor,...
