Ken Watanabe

Based on documents and accounts from the few Japanese survivors at the battle of Iwo Jima, we see the fighting from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers. The Japanese had to defend this barren Pacific island against insurmountable odds with no air support or reinforcements.

Just as Clint Eastwood's star-making spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Japanese-Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee (Villain) has decided to reinterpret Eastwood's Oscar®-winning Unforgiven as a Japanese period film. Set in the late 1800s, after the fall of Shogunate Japan, onetime assassin Jyubei Kamata (Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe -- Inception, The Last Samurai) lives in seclusion on a small farm. But when the new government begins harassing the local populace, Jyubei is forced to break the promise he made to his dead wife and take up the sword once more...

When a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Pacific Ocean near Japan, workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility risk everything to manage a reactor leak.

After his father's death, Nobunaga rises to power in Owari, uniting the province but igniting resentment in Akechi Mitsuhide amid the Sengoku chaos.

Zankuro Matsudaira, a low-ranking noble, is a skilled swordsman and playboy who supports his mother by taking on swordsmanship as a side job.

Five years after his opposition to his oppressive Tenpō-era government and his father’s suicide, Hanzo returns for vengeance and enforces new laws.

In post-World War II Japan, an aging painter looks back at his decision to use his art in service of the imperialism that led the country into war.

Loosely inspired by Jake Adelstein's non-fiction firsthand account, the crime drama series Tokyo Vice follows the young American journalist's rapid descent into Tokyo's neon-soaked underbelly in the late '90s. Hired as prestigious newspaper Meicho Shimbun's first American crime reporter, Adelstein soon finds himself covering seemingly unrelated cases -- but quickly grows suspicious that more nefarious forces are at play. After embedding himself into the Tokyo Metro PD, alongside Detective Hiroto Katagiri, Adelstein is thrust into a seedy, fast-paced world of corruption, crime, and deception, where nothing and no one are what they seem.

Fifteen years after the Vietcong ambushed a French army convoy, a U.S. mission to retrieve the loot during the height of the war goes horribly wrong.

Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an all-star cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio in this sci-fi thriller that follows Dom Cobb (DiCaprio), an international fugitive who is the best in the dangerous art of extraction, which is stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state. But Cobb's salvation comes in the form of a last assignment, yet instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists must pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one.

A tough, hardworking owner of a small noodle restaurant in Tokyo sets out to create the perfect bowl of noodles.

Makoto navigates life on the rough and lively streets of Ikebukuro while trying to solve the brutal murder of a close friend.

In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption.

Sold to a geisha house as a child, a fisherman's daughter becomes the most sought-after geisha in Kyoto, but rivalries threaten the destiny she desires.

From the same team that produced BBC's visual feast `Planet Earth', this feature length film incorporates some of the same footage from the series with all new scenes following three remarkable, yet endangered, families of animal across the globe.

When an American intelligence official travels to 1941 Shanghai to investigate the mysterious death of a friend, he discovers something disturbing.

When ancient god-sized monsters rise again, the crypto-zoological agency Monarch faces off against Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah as they all vie for supremacy.

As a future war between the human race and artificial intelligence rages on, ex-special forces agent Joshua is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI. The Creator has developed a mysterious weapon that has the power to end the war and all of mankind. As Joshua and his team of elite operatives venture into enemy-occupied territory, they soon discover the w

This spectacular adventure pits Godzilla, the world's most famous monster, against malevolent creatures that, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

Commander and his small band of freedom fighters make life difficult for the VC after the Vietnam War is over. They free Vietnamese prisoners, and destroy enemy convoys every chance they can get. This severely upsets the evil Russian Vlasov, who is working with the VC in various nefarious enterprises. An ultra-violent, Rambo style movie filmed in the Philippines.