Ken Watanabe, Japan’s leading international star, tackles a truly different kind of role in the decades-spanning drama “Kokuho.” An Oscar nominee for its makeup and hairstyling, “Kokuho” is set in the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Kokuho, Japan’s official Oscar entry for Best International Feature, director Sang-il Lee turns the centuries-old art of ...

Numerous outlets had indicated that the 'Last Samurai' Oscar nominee would be pushed as a supporting actor for the second season of the show, which has been even better critically received and more ...

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 alongside ...

A nearly three-hour film about Kabuki was never supposed to be a box office juggernaut, but “Kokuho” has defied expectations to become Japan’s top live-action hit — and an Oscars international feature ...

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Ken Watanabe (“Inception,” “Tokyo Vice”), comedian George Lopez, actor Matt Bomer (“Maestro”) and “The Morning Show” producer Charlotte Stoudt are among the Savannah College of Art and Design’s TVFest ...

The "Inception" and "The Last Samurai" star on embodying the highly stylized art for the shortlisted submission for the Best International Feature Film Oscar. GKids will play the shortlisted Japanese ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first season of the show — the first big-budget U.S. TV series ever to shoot entirely in Japan, having secured access to ...