The Last Samurai was recently added to Prime ... Alongside Tom Cruise, the film also stars Ken Watanabe, who plays the leader of a group of Samurai rebels, Katsumoto. Algren's detainment forces ...

Released in 2003, “The Last Samurai” explores themes of honor ... to shift after he is captured during a skirmish and taken to the village of the samurai leader, Moritsugu Katsumoto, played by Ken ...

Japanese actor Ken Watanabe, an Academy Award nominee for his performance in the movie The Last Samurai and lauded in the recent Broadway revival of The King and I, is fighting stomach cancer and ...

Director Lee Sang-il turns a long-held vision into reality with his sumptuously shot film that reveals the dedication, ...

But their pure-hearted tokkotai (suicide squad) pilots flying to certain death are hardly representative of the typical Japanese soldier who, as the war entered its last, desperate days ...

Logline: After the death of his father who was the head of a yakuza gang, Kikuo is taken under the wing of the renowned Kabuki actor Hanjiro Hanai (Ken Watanabe). Kikuo becomes his disciple ...

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle. Epic adventure with Tom Cruise. Contains violent scenes. (2003)(148 mins) ...

The protagonists in the shows created by Shinichiro Watanabe have smooth style, eclectic moves and a sense of swagger. ‘Cowboy Bebop’ (1998) ‘Samurai Champloo’ (2004) ‘Space Dandy ...